Biography

MARGARET ISOBEL GUTHRIE

Burial register ID: 17292
Surname: GUTHRIE
First name: MARGARET
Middle names: ISOBEL
Gender: Female
Age: 53 Years
Cause of death: Unknown
Burial type:
Date of death: 20-Jul-1955
Date of burial: 23-Jul-1955

Block: 8
Plot: 15
Inscription:

The site includes four plots (10, 11, 15 and 16) in Block 8. There is one large monument, now damaged, with inscriptions on each side (1–4). Also a shield (5), now lying on the ground in several pieces, but perhaps originally attached to a smaller headstone still standing beside the main monument.

(1)

Erected

By his

Sorrowing wife & children

In loving memory of

WILLIAM HEPBURN

Who died 29. Sep. 1887.

Aged 53.

Also

MARGARET HEPBURN

Wife of the above

Who died Aug 24. 1901

Aged 62 years.

And with the morn those angel faces smile

That I have loved long since & lost awhile.

HEPBURN

(2)

Also his son

GEORGE DOUGLAS

Who died at Melbne.

July 1st 1899

Aged 34 years.

Interred at St. Kilda Cemetery

Dearly loved. Deeply mourned

(3)

Also

WALTER JOHN GUTHRIE

Beloved husband of

MARGARET M GUTHRIE

Died 24th July 1918

In his 49th year.

(4)

Also

CHARLES HERBERT GUTHRIE

Beloved husband of

JESSIE H GUTHRIE

Died at Waimate Janry 25th 1913.

Aged 35 years

(5)

In loving memory of

WILLIAM LESLIE HEPBURN

Accidentally killed at

[Port Chalmers?]

27th March 1916

Erected by his work-mates

Bio contributor: Don Hutton

Margaret Isabel Guthrie (1901–1955)

Margaret Isabel Guthrie was born in Dunedin on 3 December 1901, the eldest child of Walter John and Margaret Marshall Guthrie (née Hepburn).

Margaret is recorded on Broad Bay School rolls 1910–19. In adulthood she was a single woman and resided with companion Kathleen De Renzie in Christchurch for many years.

In her will Margaret requested that she be buried in the “Northern Dunedin Cemetery as near as possible to my late father Walter John Guthrie”. She was buried in Block 8 Lot 15-16. (Funeral Director: R. McLean & Son). Margaret left the “residue” of her estate to Knox Church, Dunedin.

— Other burials recorded at the same site (Plots 10, 11, 15 and 16 in Block 8 form a single grave):
William HEPBURN d. 1887,
Margaret HEPBURN d. 1901,
Charles Herbert GUTHRIE d. 1913,
William Leslie HEPBURN d. 1916,
Walter John GUTHRIE d. 1918,
and Margaret Marshall GUTHRIE d. 1955.

There are 2 Interments in this grave:

Surname First names Age Date of death Date of burial
GUTHRIE MARGARET ISOBEL 53 Years 20-Jul-1955 23-Jul-1955
GUTHRIE MARGARET MARSHALL 83 Years 11-Apr-1955 14-Apr-1955