Also signed as 163 Fanny Diamond
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Fanny Elizabeth Lyons was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Martin Lyons and Ann Regan.
She married Patrick Diamond, a blacksmith, in 1892 and when Fanny signed the suffrage petition they were living in Sunnydale, North East Valley.
They had four children before Patrick died in 1901 – he is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Fanny re-married in 1906 to Manuel Rabetson - the same year she was charged with 'selling liquor without a licence' from her shop in King Street.
A few years later they moved to Victoria where they had a daughter who died aged one month.
They lived in Melbourne where, in 1926, Fanny was declared insolvent due to 'falling off in business of apartment house keeper, ill-health, and pressure of creditors'.
Fanny died on 23 October 1936 and Manuel died in 1945 – they are buried in the family grave in the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery, Victoria.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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