Signed family name
Walker
Signed given name
Agnes
Given address
Queenstown
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Tretheway was born in the mining town of Waikaia in Southland in 1870. Her father William, the town butcher, died when she was 6 years old and her mother Sophia carried on the family business for the next 30 years.
In 1891 Agnes married Frank Thomas Bookham Walker a watchmaker of Queenstown. The couple had 5 children and later lived in Orepuki, Hampden & Waimate where Agnes died in 1916. She is buried in the Waimate Cemetery beside her husband who died in 1924.
Sources
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Waimate District Council www.waimatedc.govt.nz
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/