Fanny Morgan (1867-1899)

Other names —

1. Fanny Stains/Staines
2. Frances Fanny Victoria Morgan

John Morgan could not have been Fanny's father, who was almost certainly William Staines. Fanny wasn’t a name favoured by the Morgan or Blewett families – it was a Staines family name, and marked Fanny definitively as her father William Staines’s daughter. Fanny was registered under the name Stains and was variably known as Fanny Staines and Fanny Morgan as a child, but mostly Fanny Morgan. In death Fanny claimed the lineage of John Morgan, named as her father on her death certificate. She also claimed the grander sounding full name of Frances Fanny Victoria Morgan.

There is much much more to tell of Fanny's childhood and short difficult life, but it is not for sharing at this time. I have deep empathy for Fanny.