suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Selwyn
Given names: 
F.
Given address: 
Fendalton
Sheet No: 1
Town/Suburb: 
Fendalton
City/Region: 
Christchurch
Notes: 

There is only one woman with the surname 'Selwyn' listed on the 1893 electoral roll: Fanny Selwyn, Fendalton, Domestic duties.

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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3 comments have been posted about F. Selwyn

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Brent Selwyn

Posted: 05 Jan 2013

Hi Jamie. No worries, my pleasure to provide the corrected information.

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Posted: 14 May 2012

Hi Brent - thanks very much for confirming this, I'll change the initial now. Regards, Jamie Mackay

Brent Selwyn

Posted: 13 May 2012

I have seen a copy of the page of the petition which was signed by my great grandmother Fanny Selwyn. The page is in a church at Ferrymead Village in Christchurch. I have no doubt that the initial on the petition is an 'F' and not an 'L' and as it says above, my great gran was the only female Selwyn on the roll at the relevant time. Her husband Frederick would also be on the same roll. She came from Gloucestershire on the Lady Jocelyn in 1879 after earlier sailing to NZ on The Star of India in 1873 with her first husband, Tola Peachey who died a short time thereafter.
Brent Selwyn. 13 May 2012