SummaryBorn in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland in 1841. Agnes arrived in New Zealand in 1865 with her family: husband, teacher William Dalziell and their two sons, later having two more children.
Agnes opened a school at the Durham Redoubt in about 1867.
Widowed in 1872, Agnes married Henry Lufkin Skeet in 1875, and had three children.
She died in Heretaunga in 1917. SourcesTauranga school matters » Daily Southern Cross, 20 January 1871
Agnes Skeet c. 1890s, cropped from photo Photo 04-603.
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Also Known asAgnes Macfarlane DalzielDate of Death1917