Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Bell Hutcheson was born about 1845, probably in Scotland.
She married Joseph Robinson, a shoemaker and widower with five children on 24 February 1874 in Glasgow.
Shortly after their marriage the family emigrated to Otago on the Invercargill – Agnes’s daughter was born on the ship and a further three children were born after their arrival.
The family settled in Owaka where, in later years they had a farm and where Agnes signed the suffrage petition.
Agnes died at Owaka on 25 December 1922 and Joseph died in 1924, they are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.
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