GRANT, Margaret Ann

1846 - 1881  (35 years)

• Name	GRANT, Margaret Ann  [1]
  	Originally CRART, corrected to GRANT based on Maureen Wilton's Wyatt Tree.
  Birth	1846
  Gender	Female
  Birth	Abt 1846  [2]
  Name	Margaret Ann Wyatt
  Reference Number	2152
  Death	25 Jan 1881	Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Auckland, New Zealand   [3]
  	Suicide by hanging. Age at death given as 35 years. NZ Herlad article on the Coroner's Inquest from Papers Past: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18810127.2.40 She had been in the Asylum since "last September". She was committed because "she had not been able to sleep well for the previous three months, got up in the night from her bed, and wandered about, as well as having been found on one occasion down by the rocks on the seashore." The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide by hanging, while in a state of insanity."
  Burial	27 Jan 1881	Auckland
  Person ID	I2152	Main Tree
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	WYATT, Thomas,   b. 18 Dec 1845, 10 Nelson Square, Portsea d. 27 Oct 1898 (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1874	Dwelling of John Wyatt, Auckland, New Zealand   [1]
  	Heather Miller gives 1874 for the marriage date. The death register gives married at 28 years.
  Family ID	F770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Data from Len Wyatt. 'Name in doubt, photo copies blurred'.

  
  

• Sources

  [S219] Miller, Heather. Packet. [S219] Miller, Heather. Packet, From the note on the return of deaths in Auckland. [S219] Miller, Heather. Packet, Family group sheet.