Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Hester Erridge was born in New Zealand in 1866 — the daughter of Joseph Thomas Erridge, a policeman, and Mary Jane Cavell. (See 61 M J Erridge)
She married William Addison Booth, a hairdresser, in 1884 and they had 11 children.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Hanover St, Dunedin they later moved to Ravensbourne where William died in 1936, he is buried in the Southern Cemetery with their daughter Rosalie.
Agnes married Edward Alexander Gibson, a boot manufacturer and widower, in 1941.
She died on 1 April 1943 at her home in Macandrew Bay, she was cremated and her ashes scattered.
Edward died in 1944, he is buried with his first wife 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
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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