Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Fisher was born in Scotland in 1861 – the daughter of James Fisher and Mary Patrick.
She came to New Zealand with her family around 1869 and they settled in Dunedin where her father worked as a grocer.
Her father died in 1873 and Agnes married Thomas Gibson Jefferson in 1887 in the Gore parish – they had five daughters, one who died in infancy.
Thomas worked as an engineer in charge of a gold dredge and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition they were living in Gore.
They later lived in Lawrence and Waipori before moving to Dunedin around 1906.
In 1909 Thomas went overseas to work on the Kelantan goldfields on the Malay Peninsula.
Agnes died at her home in Dunedin on 19 August 1941 and Thomas died in 1948 – they are buried together 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/