Signed family name
Donnell
Signed given name
Agnes
Given address
Enfield
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Findlay was born about 1858.
She married Joseph Donnell, a labourer, in New Zealand in 1888 and they had three children, the youngest who died in infancy.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Enfield in North Otago.
Agnes died at her home on 22 October 1894 – she is buried in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
Joseph remarried in 1900 – he died in 1941 and he is buried in the Mataura Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-services
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/