Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Stenhouse was born in Victoria, Australia in 1862 – the daughter of Henry Blyth Stenhouse, a painter, and Margaret Watterson.
Agnes came to Otago with her family in 1869 on the Tararua.
Her mother died in 1892 and, when she signed the suffrage petition, Agnes was living with her father in the family home in Maitland St, Dunedin.
She did not marry and moved with her father to Wellington in the early 1900s. Her father died in 1907 and Agnes died on 13 February 1934. They are buried together in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Wellington City Council https://wellington.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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