Fanny White

1869–1944 (Age 75)
Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia

The Life Summary of Fanny

When Fanny White was born in 1869, in Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia, her father, John White, was 43 and her mother, Sophia Grubb, was 30. She married William David ROBERTSON in 1894, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1944, in Royal Park, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

William David ROBERTSON
1867–1941
Fanny White
1869–1944
Marriage: 1894
Jessie McInroy Robertson
1895–1964
William David Robertson
1899–1962
Keith Robertson
1908–1969

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1894Victoria, Australia
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1870
    Age 1
    British troops withdraw from Australia.
    1877
    Age 8
    Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
    1892
    Age 23
    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    Name Meaning

    English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Whitty
    Whitson
    Whitt
    Whyte
    McElwain
    Whites
    Whitman
    Wythe
    McQuitty
    Whitecotton
    McWhite
    Wight
    Witt

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