Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Neill was born about 1848 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of William Neill, an ironstone miner, and Jane Gray (See 143 Jane Neill).
She emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1860s and her widowed mother and siblings followed a few years later.
Agnes married, labourer, Alexander Brown on 26 April 1871 in Dunedin.
They had eight children, one who died in infancy, and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Leith Valley, Dunedin.
They later moved to Frederick Street where Alexander died in 1917 and Agnes died on 3 September 1934 – they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/