Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Fanny White was born in 1863 in Lincoln, England – the daughter of William Muir White, a bricklayer, and Matilda Mapleston.
She came to New Zealand with her family in 1865 - they lived, at first, in Milton in South Otago.
In 1876 the family came to Dunedin where Fanny’s father built the Kensington pipe works.
Her parents moved to Victoria, Australia in 1888 the same year that Fanny married Frederick Alfred Hancock, a grocer, in New Zealand.
When Fanny signed the suffrage petition they were living in Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin.
They had one daughter who was born in 1896.
Sometime after this they went to live in Melbourne where Fanny died on 29 June 1924 and Frederick died in 1927.
They are buried in the Brighton General Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.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.
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