Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Agnes Marshall was born about 1849 in Glasgow, Scotland.
She married Robert Russell, an iron dresser, on July 13th 1866 in Glasgow. They had 4 children, their eldest child Robert died in 1872, aged 6.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Cartsburn & their daughter Ramsay was born on the voyage.
They settled in Dunedin & had a further 7 children, their second son – also Robert, died in 1882.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition they were living in Albany Street.
Robert died in 1900 & Agnes re-married in 1909 to William Grant Loader.
William’s wife had died the year before – he died in 1917 & is buried with his first wife in the Northern Cemetery.
Agnes died on October 16th 1917, she is buried with Robert, also in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
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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