Biography contributed by Katherine Blakely
Agnes Maude Boyd was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Boyd, a carter, and Agnes Allan. (See 100 Agnes Boyd)
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition she was living with her sister Margaret (See 98 Margaret Adams) in Cumberland St, Dunedin working as a saleswoman.
Agnes married John Sherlock Deaker, a school teacher, on 31 August 1898 in the St Andrew’s Parish Balclutha.
They had five children and lived in Balclutha then Dunedin where Agnes died on 24 June 1947.
John died in 1947 and 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
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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