Margaret Isabella Campbell Born the 3rd child of Charles Campbell and Isabella Paterson Cousins at Blue Spur, Lawrence, Otago, 31 Oct 1889.	Margaret isabella Campbell

School Records -           Blue Spur
Margaret Campbell          Reg No. 644,  Parent Charles Campbell
Birth    31st Oct 1889     Admission date 14th Nov 1894
Last Day 30th Sep 1902     Destination - Lawrence D H S

School Records -           Lawrence District High School
Margaret Campbell          Reg No. 1168, 
Preious School Blue Spur   Parent Mrs. Campbell
Birth    31st Oct 1889     Admission date 17th Oct 1902
Last Day 19th May 1905     Destination - Home Duties

  Margaret and her mother and 4 siblings moved to the Pupu Valley, Takaka, Golden Bay, approximately December 1908 by coastal shipping from Dunedin, then from Nelson to Waitapu by paddle steamer. They joined their father Charles and 2 eldest siblings Thomas and Donald Cumming who had all moved with Charles in 1900. He’d been commissioned by the Takaka Sluicing Company to manage a gold sluicing operation at the Pupu.

They lived in rented accomodation in a 2 storey house in Waitapu Rd, set in 3 acres of grounds for 6 months, before shifting up to the new house in the valley. It had been moved onto site and was habitable February 1907.

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Margaret died at the tender age of 25, on 9th Dec 1914, after contracting tuberculosis. She was buried in an unmarked grave Block B, Row 3, Plot 80, at Rototai Cemetary to be followed by her brother James in 1915 and youngest sister Elsie Catherine in 1921, who both died of the same disease.

Margaret shortly before she died

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