One of five daughters born to Tasmanian born Arthur Alexander Cubitt and Glasgow born Elisabeth Cameron Hume. Margaret born 1888 at  Rutherglen. Father died January 1893 followed by his wife, Elisabeth on 1 November 1899 when Margaret was eleven. It's thought that one of Margaret's elder sisters may have taken over the care of Margaret and her younger sister, Jeanette.

1909 ER living at 16 Yarra Street, Hawthorn

1912- 1917 ER Margaret is a nurse at the “Idiot Asylum” Kew. The Children's Cottages at Kew were first opened in 1887 as a ward of the Kew Asylum and was referred to as the "Idiot Ward". The institution was established to provide separate accommodation for child inmates who had previously been accommodated with adult patients. Although the Cottages only admitted children as patients, many of those children remained in residence at the Cottages as adults. The cottages known as the Kew Idiot Asylum until around 1929 were established to provide accommodation and educational instruction for mentally retarded children. 

From the House Committee report ODH 19 August 1918 - Miss Cubitt a nurse from the cottages Kew and Miss Bryant a nurse from the Melbourne benevolent asylum had been engaged and were on duty.

From the ODH House Committee report 18 November 1918 - nurses Cubitt and Bryant have completed their 3 months’ probation and they have been passed by the medical officer and approved of by the matron as properly fitted to continue their training.

From ODH House Committee report 21 October 1919 - … £15-1-5 was due to the nurses who are training here – the payments are in accordance with the circular received from the Board of Public Health dated 29 July 1919 and the amounts owing to the trainees are as follows - Nurse Gow £5-1-5, Nurse Bruce £3-8-9, Nurse I’Anson £3-9-9, Nurse Pini £1-15-0, Nurse Cubitt £1-6-6 …

From the ODH Inpatient Register 1 January 1906-28 April, 1925. Admitted as a patient with septic throat on 29 August 1920. 30 August 1920 discharged to her sister, Mrs Rogers of Rutherglen.

From the ODH House Committee report 16 May 1921 – Nurse Pini and nurse Cubitt were in Melbourne for their final examinations.

From the ODH House Committee report 20 June 1921 – Nurse Pini and nurse Cubitt had passed their RVTNA examinations.

From the ODH House Committee report 20 September 1921 – Nurse Cubitt will finish her training on October 1st …

From the ODH House Committee report 17 October 1921 – The Secretary reported that Nurse Cubitt had completed her training and left the institution.

Date of qualification October 1921.

Una Journal, 1 December 1923 – Miss Margaret A Cubitt and Miss McLeish have gone to Tasmania to do private nursing during the summer. They will reside at the Trained Nurses’ Club Hobart where they will probably obtain plenty of work as there is a shortage of nurses there.

1924 - Margaret is living at Linden, a trained nurses' home managed by Miss McKinnell at 20 Williams Road, Prahran.

In 1925 Margaret is in Queensland and is living at St. George's Nurse Home in Milton, a inner riverside suburb of Brisbane.

By 1927 she has returned Victoria and is residing at the Kensington trained nurses' home at 5 Kensington Road, South Yarra. See Table Talk, 23 March 1922.

1928 - 1931 living at 6 Stawell Street, Kew. Occupation - nurse.

1931 - 1935 Margaret is living with her sister, Elizabeth Sayers her husband John William Sayers at 23 Berry Street, Seddon.

1936-1937 is nursing at St Luke’s Private Hospital, 434 Glen Eira Road, Caulfield.

1942 – 1954 nursing at 23 Normanby Street, Middle Brighton, a private hospital.

1963 - 1967 ER 40 Normanby Street, Brighton - home duties. Judging by the number of other people living at this address, it's possible that the property was a boarding house.

Died at Brighton 10 March 1974 aged 86. Place of burial not known at this stage. Probate granted 10 June 1974. 

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