As I have remarked more than once before, the lives of women did not much figure in the newspapers back in the "old days." They had their prescribed places as "wife and mother" and tended not to make the headlines. As a wise female friend once remarked, they had a job which ws both commonplace and dangerous. And, because it involved sexual relations, was not often reported.
Fanny Louisa Mant married Thomas Robertson, a traveller for the brewing company Speights in "about 1881" according to an online genealogy source. She gave birth to Fanny, her daughter on September 23rd, 1882 and died just a few days later. As you can see, Fanny her daughter died aged 20 days.
Deaths.
Robertson. — On the 13th inst., at the residence of Mr Mant, Linden (Roslyn), Fanny Louisa, infant daughter of Thos. A. Robertson; aged 20 days. -Evening Star, 14/10/1882.
Thomas Robertson remarried and died, still in the employ of Speight and Co, at the Masonic Hotel in Gisborne of a stroke.
Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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