Margaret Best

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Margaret Best (Hume)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Selkirk, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: September 09, 1943 (93-94)
New Zealand
Place of Burial: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Hume and Jane Hume
Wife of Alfred Best
Mother of Mary Ella Field; Sarah Elizabeth Best; Jennie Hume Sievers; Sarah Elizabeth Culley; Clarence Randell Best and 1 other
Sister of Janet Hume; James Hume; Helen Stone; William Park Hume; Anne Edgecumbe and 3 others

Immigration to New Zealand: Kingston, 1858
Managed by: Susanne Margaret Melton
Last Updated:

About Margaret Best

Henry Hume was the son of James and Janet Hume (nee Armstong). He married Jeannie Linton. Henry, Jeannie and their children (James, Jane, Helen (Ellen), Anne, Margaret and William Hume) arrived in New Zealand in 1858 on board the Kingston'. Henry's younger brother Walter (c.1817-1885) emigrated to New Zealand a few years later on board the Pegasus, arriving in Auckland on 28 March 1865 and in 1909 took up land at Katikati in the Bay of Plenty. Source; The Pioneers, Settlers and Families of Katikati and District by Christine Clement and Ellen McCormack (p, 134).

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Margaret Best's Timeline

1849
1849
Selkirk, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1888
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May 29, 1893
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1943
September 9, 1943
Age 94
New Zealand
September 9, 1943
Age 94
Ohariu, Holy Trinity Cemetery, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand