See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Sinclair Gilmour was born about 1855 in Glasgow, Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago where she married William Charles Chambers, a hammerman, on 9 July 1886 in Dunedin.
They had three children and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition they were living in Leckhampton Court in Caversham Rise, Dunedin.
William died in Dunedin in 1919 – he is buried with his father and grandson in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Agnes died at her daughter’s home in Mount Albert, Auckland on 3 February 1929 – she is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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