Agnes was born about 1820[2] at Haddington, Lincolnshire, England.[1] On 25 May 1842 she was married to William Wakefield, rope maker, at the Parish Church of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. The record states that her father was Peter Milnes, a husbandman (=farmer).[2] In 1851 Agnes and William, with their 2 year old daughter Agnes, were staying at a boarding house at Huddersfield, Yorkshire.[3] She was aged 35 years in 1855 when her daughter Jane was born was born at Kelso.[1] In 1861 she was living with her family at Kelso.[4] In 1871 she was still living with her family at Kelso.[5] In 1874 she emigrated to New Zealand.
Residence Relation to Head of House: Wife. 1861 Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [1] Relation to Head of House: Wife. 1871 Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [2]
Died 1 Aug 1899. Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. [3][4]
Buried Addington, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand. [5]
Agnes Milne. [6][7][8][9] [10][11][12][13]
1. 1855 Wakefield Jane Gray (Statutory registers Births) - National Registers of Scotland (the record states that she was born at Hadddington and was aged 35 at the time of her daughter's birth)
2. Agnes Milnes, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918" -- FamilySearch.org (marriage record)
3. 1851 England and Wales Census
4. William Wakefield in the 1861 Scotland Census -- Ancestry.co.uk
5. William Wakefield in the 1871 Scotland Census -- Ancestry.co.uk
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