Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Richardson was born about 1854, she emigrated to Otago in 1861 with her parents and siblings on the Storm Cloud.
Agnes married George Frederick Mayhew, a compositor, on 9 February 1874 in Dunedin and they had six children, two who died in infancy.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition she gave her address as Union St, Dunedin and was working as a ladies’ nurse although the family home was in Serpentine Avenue.
George died in 1914 and Agnes died on 21 August 1936, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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/
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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