Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Fortune McFadyen was born on board the Mariner en route to Otago in 1849 - the daughter of Hugh McFadyen, a cooper and clerk, and Hellen Hunter Morison.
She married James Sandilands Douglas, the licencee of Wain’s Royal Hotel, Dunedin, on 12 January 1872 in Dunedin and they had nine children, one who died in infancy.
James was declared insolvent in 1881 and the hotel’s licence was transferred.
James then worked as a plumber and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
Agnes died on 21 May 1910 and James died in 1913, 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
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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