Margaret Barnett Cruickshank was a New Zealand medical practitioner who died during the 1918 influenza pandemic. She was the first registered female doctor in New Zealand.
Cruickshank was born a twin on New Years day 1873 in Palmerston, a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. Her twin was also a girl, Christina. Their parents were Elizabeth and George, who had emigrated together from Scotland first to Australia and then to Dunstan in Central Otago, to join the gold rush there.
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