Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Hurndell was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Cornelius Hurndell, a labourer, and Mary Jane Evans. (See 131 Mary J Hurndell)
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Palmerston, north of Dunedin.
Her daughter Winifred was born in 1893.
In 1911 Agnes married Andrew Smith, a widower with grown children who worked as a boxmaker. They lived in Dunedin where Andrew died in 1915 from 'poison self-administered while in a depressed state of mind through illness'. Andrew is buried with his first wife in the Northern Cemetery.
Agnes re-married in 1920 to John Cunningham, a railway guard, also a widower.
She died on 20 January 1942 at her daughter’s home in Invercargill and is buried in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.
John died in Westport in 1952, he is buried with his first wife in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Invercargill City Council https://icc.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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