Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)	WHITBY, Frances Jane (Fanny) nee WYLY
Date of Birth	c1842
Place of Birth	Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
Date of Death	17.03.1924,
Place of Death	Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
Place of Burial	Dublin, Ireland
Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)	Ship Candahar, December 1851
Lived in Prospect (dates)	C1879-1884
Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area	Carter Street, Little Adelaide (Northern corner Prospect Road)
Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area	North Adelaide (c1875-1879 & c1884-1886), South Terrace, Adelaide (c1887-1888), Hastings Street, Glenelg (c1889-1890)
Names of houses (if any)	Mrs Whitby’s Ladies School
Parents	Alexander WYLY and Elizabeth CONRAN
Spouse(s)	Joseph James WHITBY
Date(s) of Marriage(s)	02.05.1866
Place(s) of Marriage(s)	Christ Church, North Adelaide
Children	Geoffrey Castleden (1869-), Percy Edward Robert (?), Frances Elizabeth (1871-1916), Henrietta Lillian (1873 -1882), Constance Muriel (1879-1879).
Education	“benefited from a good education”
Occupation(s)	Proprietor of Ladies School
Interests/Activities
Religion/Churches	Church of England (Anglican)
Notes (points of interest etc.)	Fanny Whitby opened her first school in North Adelaide after her husband, then the acting Crown Solicitor, drowned when the Gothenburg was caught in a cyclone and sank in the Great Barrier Reef. Anglican Church services were held in her Prospect schoolroom until the first Saint Cuthbert’s Church was opened.
Local Government experience
Sources of information	David Johnston, Prospect Schools and Early Teachers, Newspapers, Council Assessments, Land Records, Dorothy AA Wyly, Irish origins – A Family Settlement in Australia. Biographical Index of South Australians 1936-1885. Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes