Originally transcribed as A K Steel
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Joan Richardson Hay was born on 31 October 1864 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of Catherine Hay.
Her mother married Peter Campbell, a bootmaker, in 1867 and Agnes took his name.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Christian McAusland and they settled in South Otago.
Agnes married Thomas Evered Steel, a contractor, in 1883. They had nine children and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Clinton.
In later life they moved to Gore where Thomas died in 1921.
Agnes died on 28 April 1953 in Christchurch, she is buried with Thomas in the Gore Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Gore District Council https://www.goredc.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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