Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Fanny Garlick Wilson was born in Victoria, Australia in 1855 – the daughter of James Wilson, a brickmaker, and Fanny Garlick. (See 99 Mrs F Wilson)
She married John Collins in 1877 and they had two sons.
John appears to have either died or left the country as, on 16 May 1883, at Knox Church, Dunedin Fanny married John Hardie, a hotel keeper and widower with seven children.
John died in 1888 and later that year Fanny took her stepchildren’s grandfather to court for maintenance as John had 'left her no property or means at all, and she was subsisting on aid from the Benevolent Institiution.' After evidence was given the case was dismissed.
Fanny re-married the following year to Edwin Jones and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Castle St, Dunedin.
Fanny disappears from the records after this and her later life is unknown.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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