Makers: Andrea Holmes and Edith Curwood

Panel number: 108

Petition Sheet Number: 113

Person honouring: M Gordon Burn

Relationship to makers: None

Margaret Jane Dickson (Maggie) was born in 1868 and lived to be over 100 years old. She was the daughter of Thomas Dickson and Agnes (nee Dalziel). 

Agnes, a twin, was born in Cadder, Lanarkshire in 1841 to handloom-weaving parents Andrew Dalziel and Margaret Jarvie. In 1848 the family boarded the ‘Philip Laing’ for Otago, where they settled and worked at Waikouaiti. Eventually they purchased land in Brockville, which they and their descendants farmed until the 1970′s. 

Agnes Dalziel married Falkirk cabinetmaker Thomas Dickson in 1866 at Halfway Bush and together they built a house in Hart Street, Dunedin. Maggie’s elder sister Mary Dunbar Dickson was born in 1867. Maggie, Mary and Mrs Dickson signed sheet 108 of the Petition together. 

Thomas Dickson died in 1912 and Maggie, Mary and Agnes lived together in the family home at 26 Hart Street in Roslyn, Dunedin. Agnes died in 1927. After Mary’s death in 1949, Margaret stayed at their home until the late 1950′s. She died at Ross Home in 1971, two weeks before turning 103.

Panel materials: Linen, all material that we had. Linen napkin and embroidery thread.