Mrs. William Graham Fox

Signed family name

Fox

Signed given name

Mrs. William Graham

Given address

Earne St Invercargill

Sheet number

354

Town/Suburb

Invercargill

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Biographical information provided for the He Tohu exhibition:

Letitia Fox, signing as Mrs William Graham Fox, signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition in 1893 with her four daughters, Ellen Letitia, Alice, Phoebe and Maud Mary. The family were living in Earn Street, Invercargill, where most of the signatures on this sheet were also collected.

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Letitia Smith Wightman was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England in 1840 – the daughter of John Wightman, a blanket maker, and Letitia Smith.

Her mother died in 1844 and her father died in 1848 - she lived with her siblings before she married William Graham Fox in 1863.

Shortly after their marriage the couple emigrated to Otago on the Queen of Australia where William worked as a police constable at the Queenstown goldfields.

In 1870 the family moved to Invercargill. They had a total of 12 children, two who appear to have died in infancy.

When Letitia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Earne St, Invercargill.

William died in March 1922 and Letitia died on 3 November the same year.

They are buried in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.