Originally transcribed as Agnus Smith
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Bunting Strathearn Smith was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Smith, an auctioneer, and Jeannie Williamson.
She grew up in Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Forth Street.
Agnes married Andrew Henry Nelson, a sawyer, in 1901 and they had three children.
Andrew died in 1932 and Agnes died on 11 September 1933, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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