Residence is not Oamaru, there is no residence written on the sheet.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Frances/Fanny Ada Amelia Orbell was born in 1871 in New Zealand the daughter of Arthur Orbell and Rhoda/Rora Wilkie. (See 302 R F Orbell)
When she signed the suffrage petition Fanny was living with her family in Hampden in North Otago.
She married William Gibson, a railway employee, on 17 May 1899 in Dunedin – they had four children and lived at Middlemarch, Mosgiel and Dunedin.
William died at Oamaru in 1943, he is buried in the Hampden Cemetery.
Fanny died on 31 May 1949 at the Wellington Hospital, she was cremated and her ashes appear to be buried with William at Hampden.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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