Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Gordon Roberts was born on 14 February 1857 in Liverpool, England – the daughter of Joseph Roberts, a book keeper, and Marion Gray.
She emigrated to New Zealand and she married Eugene Christian Remshardt, a book keeper, in 1878.
They had two daughters.
In the 1880s Eugene started a successful business as a rabbitskin and wool exporter and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Grant St, Dunedin.
Agnes died at their home on 18 May 1924 and Eugene died in 1942, they are buried together 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
Online Parish Clerk https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/
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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