Margaret Gardner (mill owner)

Margaret Gardner, 1880s

Margaret Gardner (8 September 1844 – 19 June 1929) was a New Zealand assisted immigrant, domestic servant, landowner, businesswoman, farmer and flour mill owner.

Biography

She was born in Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1844. She emigrated on the Sebastopol to Lyttelton in 1863.[1]

Her husband George built a mill in Canterbury in the 1880s but died in an 1885 accident. After his death, she expanded the mill into a large business, the North Canterbury Co-operative Flourmilling Exporting and Agency Company. She died on 19 June 1929.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Gardner, W. J. "Gardner, Margaret - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
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