Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Fanny Jane Irving was born about 1824 – she married Moses Wilkinson in 1876 in New Zealand - they do not appear to have had any children.
They lived at Blue Spur near Lawrence in Central Otago where Moses worked as a miner.
They later moved to Dunedin and when Fanny signed the suffrage petition they were living in Maclaggan St, Mornington.
Moses died in 1895 and Fanny died on 2 June 1900, they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
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
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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