Unsung are the heroines of times when a wife's job and duty were to bear her husband's children. Were they unsung in their day because childbirth involved sex? Or because it was a normal, if not expected, thing to occur to a woman?
Margaret Paterson was, possibly, not mentioned by name in contemporary papers, being mentioned merely as "wife." But, to be fair to those days, my primary source of information, the wonderful "Papers Past," does have a certain failure rate in its scanning - some stories simply have not come through the process.
BIRTHS.
On the 7th January, the wife of Mr Robert Paterson, of a son. -Bruce Herald, 10/1/1873.
DEATHS.
At Tokomairiro, on Saturday, the 8th instant, the infant son of Mr Robert Paterson, Hillend, Lovell's Flat. -Bruce Herald, 11/2/1873.
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