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Thanks for all your interest, JoonieCloonie. In answer to your question, "so you don't have that birth certificate but you know from other records that this was your dad's grandmother's sister?"

By coincidence I have just received the birth certificate of my great-great aunt Edith Fanny Bennett (takes about 4 weeks from the GRO to Central Australia!). She was born on 20 December 1875 in Battersea.

But in 2011 I discovered the baptism record (on Ancestry) of Edith Fanny Bennett, for 27 February 1876 at St George, Battersea. It appears Edith and her older brother and sister (Joseph Edward Bennett born 1871 and Susan Bennett born 1873), children of Henry & Betsy Bennett, were all baptised on the same day, and all three were, without any doubt, the younger siblings of Dad's grandmother Eliza, as per Ancestry census transcriptions:

1871 Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub-registration district: Battersea
Household Members:
Henry Bennett 40
Betsy Bennett 35
Henry Bennett 11
Frederick Bennett 9
Sarah Bennett 7
Eliza Bennett 2
Joseph Bennett 1 month

1881 Registration district: Hambledon
Sub-registration district: Witley
Household Members:
Henry Bennett 50
Betsey Bennett 68 [?]
Eliza Bennett 12
Joseph Bennett 10
Susan Bennett 7
Edith Bennett 5
Elizabeth Bennett 2
George Bennett 1

The baptism record was also the first mention I had seen of the middle name Fanny for Eliza's sister, which of course increases the likelihood of Edith F/Edith Fanny Bennett in Bournemouth years later being the same Edith; but still not proof, though.