Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Barton Mackie Jago was born about 1854 in Renfrewshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Wesley Jago, a cashier, and Margaret Pollock Mackie.
Agnes emigrated to Otago with her family in 1862 on the Cheviot and they settled in Dunedin, her father was to become the manager of the Evening Star newspaper.
She married James Frederick Peake, an importer, in 1872 and they had seven children.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Leith St, Dunedin.
She died at her home on 19 May 1914.
James died in 1926, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
