Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
WHITBY, Frances Jane (Fanny) nee WYLY |
Date of Birth |
c1842 |
Place of Birth |
Blackrock, |
Date of Death |
17.03.1924, |
Place of Death |
Blackrock, |
Place of Burial |
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Arrived in |
Ship Candahar, December 1851 |
Lived in Prospect (dates) |
C1879-1884 |
Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area |
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Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area |
North Adelaide (c1875-1879 & c1884-1886), South Terrace, |
Names of houses (if any) |
Mrs Whitby’s |
Parents |
Alexander WYLY and Elizabeth CONRAN |
Spouse(s) |
Joseph James |
Date(s) of Marriage(s) |
02.05.1866 |
Place(s) of Marriage(s) |
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Children |
Geoffrey Castleden (1869-), Percy Edward |
Education |
“benefited from a good education” |
Occupation(s) |
Proprietor of |
Interests/Activities |
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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 |
Local Government experience |
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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 |