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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

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

 

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