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While cotton was grown in the south, that was not necessarily where the mills were. I believe there were a lot of mills in the northeast. But just because she worked in a cotton mill in England does not say that she would have worked in a similar mill here.
Even though I don't share the same doubts that another respondent did with respect to an unmarried 19 year old lady immigrating to the US from England, I do doubt that she immigrated into a vacuum. Her brother, Thomas, who immigrated earlier, unless he was a "black sheep," kept in touch with the family back home. When Fanny came, she probably linked up with Thomas somehow.
On that theory, I followed up on your find of Thomas in the 1880 and 1900 census. In the 1900 census, I found Fanny Stone, wife of Benjamin, living in Allegheny Co, PA, where Thomas was living. There are some inconsistencies with Fanny's DOB and the time of her immigration.
Since Benjamin Stone also was born in England and supposedly immigrated 5 years before Fanny, could Fanny have made the trip in order to marry him? Did the Hewitts have some neighbors named Stone back in England?
In 1910 Benjamin W. and Fannie Stone are living in Orange Co, FL. They had been married 19 years. So it would appear that this Fannie married Benjamin shortly after she immigrated if she immigrated in 1890. She was still there in 1920.
In 1930 I found a widow Gertude Fanny Stone living in Jupiter, Palm Beach Co, FL.
You found Fanny Hewitt's birth and christening recorded in the family Bible. Where did you find that she arrived in New York on the Italy on 7 Sep 1886? If you simply found the name on a ship's list, how do you know that the Fanny Hewitt on the Italy was your great aunt? There are many problems trying to locate immigrant names on ship lists, not the least of which is, that many lists are missing.
Bill Wright
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