Margaret (Pigdon) Bennison (1860)

Born 1860 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander McGregor — married 12 Jun 1884 in Victoria, Australia

Wife of Thomas Bennison — married 1901 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Biography

Margaret "Maggie" Pigdon (married names McGregor, then Bennison) was born in 1860 in Victoria, Australia, the eldest daughter of Jane Pigdon and John Pigdon.^[1]

She married Alexander McGregor on 12 June 1884 in Victoria.^[2] Alexander died in August 1896.^[3] Alexander died on 4 August 1896 at Battery Point, Tasmania.^[4]

On 27 December 1900, Maggie married Thomas Bennison, a solicitor who later became Lord Mayor of Hobart.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Margaret Pigdon's birth record at Births, Deaths, Marriages Victoria: Reg. No: 898; Reg. year: 1860. Retrieved 13 May 2017 by Clare Spring from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj.
2. ↑ "Marriages." 21 June 1884. The Argus (Melbourne), p. 1. Retrieved 13 May 2017 by Clare Spring from http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/6051812.
3. ↑ 'McGregor, Alexander (1821–1896)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgregor-alexander-4095/text6545, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 13 May 2017 by Clare Spring.
4. ↑ "Alexander McGregor." 5 August 1896. The Mercury (Hobart), p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2017 by Clare Spring from http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9379031.
5. ↑ "Marriages." 1 January 1901. The Mercury (Hobart), p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2017 by Clare Spring from http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12825033.