Others By The Same Name
On 2 November 1865, New Zealand's The West Coast Times reported on the arrival in Hokitika the previous evening from Melbourne, Australia of the ship Gothenburg. The paper stated, "She brings to our shores Mr Stevens; English Troupe of acrobats consisting of Mr and Mrs Stevens, the masters Stevens (two), Pablo Fanque and son, Messrs Hatton, Briggs, Rayner, Wilkins, Charles, Wildt, and Master Poono..." This, however, was not the Pablo Fanque of British fame, but Fanque's nephew, William "Billy" Banham, who used the pseudonym of his famous uncle during his time in New Zealand and Australia in the 1850s and 1860s.
Fanque's son, Ted Pablo, may have also fought under the name Pablo Fanque in his Australian boxing matches.
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