Maybanke Susannah (Selfe) Anderson (1845 - 1927)

Born 4 Feb 1845 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Kay Wolstenholme — married 3 Sep 1867 (to 1892) in St Philip's Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Wife of Francis Anderson — married 2 Mar 1899 in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia

Died 15 Apr 1927 at age 82 in St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France

Biography

Maybanke (Selfe) Anderson migrated from England to Australia.

Maybanke (Selfe) Anderson is Notable.

Maybanke Susannah Selfe was born February 4, 1845 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, the daughter of Henry Selfe and Elizabeth (Smith) Selfe. ^[1] She was the sister of Norman Selfe.Maybanke's family immigrated to Australia as free settlers when she was nine years old.

Maybanke married Edmund Kay Wolstenholme in September 1867. He was a timber merchant. They had seven children but four of them died from a heart condition before the age of five. ^[2] Edmund became an alcoholic and abandoned the family in 1884. Maybanke had to wait eight years for the passage of the Divorce Amendment and Extension Act in 1892 before she could obtain a divorce which became final in 1893.^[3]

In 1891 Maybanke was a foundation vice-president of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and president in 1893-96. From 1892 she was also a member of the Women's Literary Society, a group which had serious intellectual and feminist aspirations, and in 1893 was a founder and secretary-treasurer of the Australasian Home Reading Union. In 1894, she published and edited her own fortnightly paper, Woman's Voice. She had to give this up in 1895. ^[4]

Maybanke married Francis Anderson on March 2, 1899 in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

She died April 15, 1927 in St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France.

Sources

1. ↑ England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 index, FamilySearch, Maybrandt Susanna Selfe, 07 May 1845; citing , reference yr 1832-1851 p 291; FHL microfilm 991685.
2. ↑ "Anderson, Maybanke Susannah (1845 - 1927) - Australian Dictionary of Biography (online edition)"
3. ↑ Wikipedia Maybanke Anderson.
4. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography Beverley Kingston, 'Anderson, Maybanke Susannah (1845–1927)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 1979.

See also:

• Nugent, A., 2001 Maybanke Anderson Feminist, Suffragist and Federationist National Library of Australia News, Volume XI Number 8. p