Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Agnes Ann Sanderson was born in 1865 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Sanderson, a market gardener, and Mary Ann Canty.
She married James Halliday Spencer, a carter, on 14 October 1891 in Dunedin and when Agnes signed the suffrage petition they were living in Calton, North East Valley.
They had eight children, three who died in infancy.
James died in 1926 and Agnes died on 27 June 1951 – 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/