Hannah Mahoney

Hannah Mahoney (born Small; 1884 - 1974 ) was a Gambian politician.

Life

In 1910 Mahoney was the first female Gambian civil servant.

Before or in 1941 (according to other information already in 1933 or not until 1943) she was nominated as a member of the city council of the Gambian capital, the Bathurst Advisory Town Council (the predecessor of today's Banjul City Council ) and was thus the first woman in Gambia in a political Body. The first elected representatives were Hannah Forster and Cecilia Davies in 1946 .

In 1944 she was appointed to a Justice of Peace of a judicial panel whose remit were juvenile offenders.

family

Hannah Mahoney belonged to the Aku ethnic group and was a member of a family that shaped political and social life in Gambia. She was the daughter of the tailor John W. Small. The Gambian politician Edward Francis Small was her half-brother. She was married to the politician Sir John Andrew Mahoney (1883–1966) and had five children with him:

John Andrew (1919–2012) was a physician and married to the historian Florence Mahoney .
Priscilla (born around 1920/1921), married Louis Francis Valantine , who was Gambia's High Commissioner in Great Britain from 1965 to 1968 .

Louise Antoinette (Louise N'Jie ) (1922–2014) married the first Gambian dentist or surgeon Denis / Dennis Njie and later became the first female Gambian minister.
James Mahoney (born around 1923) was a lawyer and lived in Great Britain and Sierra Leone .
Hannah Augusta (Augusta Jawara ) (1924–1981) was also a politician and married the later President of the Gambia, Dawda Jawara (born 1924).

literature

Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-6260-9 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The need for you to nominate Five (5) women parliamentarians. In: The Standard Newspaper. April 10, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2019 (American English).
↑ Hassoum Ceesay: Chiefs and the management of urbanization in Colonial Bathurst, Gambia 1939-1960 . In: Mande Studies . tape 18 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN 2379-5506 , p. 75-92 ( jhu.edu [accessed July 19, 2019] So Ceesay, referring to a 1941 newspaper article).
^ Perfect, David, 1960-: Historical dictionary of The Gambia . 4th ed. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .
^ University of Victoria Libraries: The Daily Colonist (1944-07-09) . 1944 ( archive.org [accessed July 19, 2019]).
^ Tribute to Aunty Louise Antoinette Njie: Educationist, Feminist, Pioneer. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
↑ Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mahoney, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Small, Hannah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1884
DATE OF DEATH	1974

[:0-1] A ^b The need for you to nominate Five (5) women parliamentarians. In: The Standard Newspaper. April 10, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2019 (American English).

[2] Hassoum Ceesay: Chiefs and the management of urbanization in Colonial Bathurst, Gambia 1939-1960 . In: Mande Studies . tape 18 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN 2379-5506 , p. 75-92 ( jhu.edu [accessed July 19, 2019] So Ceesay, referring to a 1941 newspaper article).

[3] Perfect, David, 1960-: Historical dictionary of The Gambia . 4th ed. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .

[4] University of Victoria Libraries: The Daily Colonist (1944-07-09) . 1944 ( archive.org [accessed July 19, 2019]).

[5] Tribute to Aunty Louise Antoinette Njie: Educationist, Feminist, Pioneer. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .

[:12-6] Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .

[:1-7] The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .