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Mrs Smyth

Signed family name
Smyth
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Caversham
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Caversham
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

See also Caversham research databases

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Agnes Langmuir was born in 1841 in New South Wales – the daughter of William Langmuir, a gardener, and Margaret Baylor. (See 40 Margaret Langmuir)

She went to Victoria with her family before they sailed for Otago on the Ceylon in 1863.

Agnes married taxidermist William Smyth at her home in Caversham on 7 January 1873 and they had five children.

When Agnes signed the suffrage petition they were living in Alexandra St, Caversham.

William died on 2 September 1913 and Agnes died shortly after on 30 September – 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/           

NSW Government https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.