Also signed as 120 Agnes Clark
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes McLean was born about 1824 in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of David McLean, an agricultural labourer, and Elizabeth.
She married Henry Clark about 1849 and they had five children, one who died in infancy, before they emigrated to Otago in 1858 on the Jura.
The family settled at Clarkesville in the Tokomairiro district where they had a farm – their two-year-old son Henry died in 1860 and their next four children were born, one who died in infancy. When Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were still at Clarkesville.
Jasper died at their home in 1899 and Agnes died on 13 October 1906 at their son’s home in Dunedin, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Her obituary said her family was left to mourn the loss 'of a grand old pioneer settler, one of the stamp which has set its best seal on the progress and development of the district and the colony.'
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
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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