tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90500438720013285012024-03-13T06:11:50.978-07:001866 Suffrage Petition WomenADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-85670840998610916932015-10-21T07:50:00.000-07:002015-10-21T07:51:14.928-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucy Castle (1843-1921)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucy Castle's life was affected by the responsibilities that she had to take on at an early age. Her father, a cooper, died when she was 19, and her only brother died when he was 25. She became the sole support of her mother, and worked her way up from Pupil Teacher to headmistress. She was fortunate to have a career path as a Board School teacher already begun at the age of 18. It would have been her own hard work and ability which would have encouraged her teachers to train her as a pupil teacher. It is not clear how she came to sign the petition, but it could be that her father had connections with the Radical artizans in the city, or maybe she knew one of the teachers who belonged to the London Association of Schoolmistresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in about 1843, In 1861 18 year old Lucy was a pupil
teacher at St Mary’s National School. Whitechapel. Her father Charles was a wine cooper, and
they were living at 8 Back Court, St Mary Colman in the city. Her brother
Charles, aged 15 was a messenger. The
next year her father Charles Castle died. When she signed the petition, she was teaching at Christ Church Schools, Cubitt Town, on the Isle of Dogs. In 1871 she was lodging at 23 Spencer Street, Islington with her mother
Martha who was dependent on her. She was
a schoolmistress in a National School. It is likely that her brother Charles
died the next year, leaving her as the sole support for her mother. In 1881 she
was head mistress of a Board School. She lived with her mother Martha in Birchanger Road,
Norwood. Her mother died in 1883. In 1901 she was living alone, and was a
headmistress of a board school. In 1911 she has retired to 78 Lowther Road,
Preston, Brighton on a teachers pension. Again she lived alone, and her home
had 6 rooms. When she died in Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital in Haywards Heath in 1921 she
left £1278 5s 7d.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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district: Islington East ED, institution, or vessel: 23a Household schedule
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ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-58167169391776379872015-07-18T12:17:00.001-07:002015-07-18T12:17:34.455-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Bucknall Cotton Winder of Stockport Road, Manchester</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Bucknall married shortly after signing the petition, but also a year after she had her first child with William Henry Dunmore. She was to deliver their second child a week or so after their marriage and her signature. At the baptism of her first child in church she was 'Elizabeth Dunmore' but when she signed the Petition she used her legal name.as an unmarried woman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in 1839, the daughter of James Bucknall, a labourer, in
1841 she was living in Ormond Street, Manchester. By 1861 the family were
living in [Gt?] Chatham Street, and James was working as a porter, her mother
Ann as a dressmaker, her elder sister Ann as a maker of paper bags, and
Elizabeth herself as a cotton winder. In June 1865 William Henry and ‘Elizabeth
Dugmore’ had son John baptised, In the second quarter of 1866, shortly after
signing the Petition, Elizabeth married
William Henry Dugmore. Their daughter Maud
Victoria was born on 12<sup>th</sup> June, 1866 and baptised in October 1866.,. William was baptised in 1868, and Tom in 1869. By 1871
she was living in Clowes Street with her husband William Henry Dugmore, and
Jhn, aged 7, Maud Victoria, aged 5 and Tom aged 2. William was a coachman, and
later a cabbie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Medlock ED, institution, or vessel: 32 Household schedule number77 Piece: 2882 Folio:
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Christening</i><i> Name: Maud Victoria Dugmore
Birth Date: 12 Jun 1866 Baptism Date: 14 Oct 1866 Parish: Ardwick, St Thomas Father's
name: William Henry Dugmore Mother's name: Elizabeth Dugmore Reference
Number: GB127.M273/1/2/3 Ancestry<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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But she could still protest with her niece by defacing the 1911 census! In the column for infirmity ('deaf',' blind' etc) her niece Ada wrote "unenfranchised"</div>
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the 1866 Suffrage Petition in Rochdale. Her
father had died six years before, and her mother was carrying on in the shoe
business. Rachel was born on 7<sup>th</sup>
September 1829. Her father Charles made clogs
. She was baptised at the Quaker meeting house but they were apparently not in full
membership. However she attended the
Quaker Ackworth School from 1841- 1843,(Student no 6400 page 142 <a href="https://archive.org/stream/listofboysgirlsa00ackw#page/142/mode/2up">https://archive.org/stream/listofboysgirlsa00ackw#page/142/mode/2up</a>
) as did other members of her family. In
the 1841 census Charles and Sarah Parry, Rachel, and her five siblings lived at
St Mary’s Gate, Spotland, Rochdale. Rachel’s
father died in 1860 leaving just under £2000.
In the 1861 census her mother
Sarah was described as a widowed shoe dealer employing 5 men. In
1871 Sarah, Rachel and brother Albert are at Heights Cottage, Spotland, and her
mother now employs a boy and three girls in addition to the 5 men and is a shoe
manufacturer. By 1881 she and her mother
are shoe dealers and live at 119 Tachbrook Road, Leamington Brother in law James Wormal, and his wife and
daughter are living with them. Sarah
died in 1882. By 1891 Rachel had a shoe warehouse
in Eastbourne and lived in Grove Road Eastbourne. Her brother Albert was manager of her
Warehouse, and her brother in law James Wormall shared her home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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retired to Ilfracombe, Devon with James Wormall. She described herself as a retired boot dealer. In 1911 she is living
with Ada Sophia and they fill in the census under protest. <a href="http://www.jliddington.org.uk/1911-census.html">http://www.jliddington.org.uk/1911-census.html</a>
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she died in 1914 she left £783.8s..9d and her niece Ada Sophia Wormall was her
executor. Ada Sophia had also been a student
at the Quaker Ackworth School in the 1860’s.and was a supporter of the Order of
the Golden Age, an organisation based in Paignton which advocated fruitarianism
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Bank, Station Rd, Ilfracombe Registration district: Barnstaple Registration
District Number: 284 Sub-registration district: Ilfracombe ED, institution, or
vessel: 16 Household schedule number: 76 Piece: 13366</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">A Quaker born
in Darlington, she founded a local women’s abolition society, personally
collecting thousands of signatures for anti-slavery petitions. She supported
Chartism. When she married Professor
Nichol in her forties, she was expelled from the Quakers for marrying ‘out’
which saddened her. After signing the
1866 suffrage petition she joined the local Edinburgh Society fo Women’s
Suffrage. When Sophia Jex Blake and
others demanded the opportunity to study Medicine there in 1877, Elizabeth spoke
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<span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">In May 1866 Mrs Ellen Roberts, young wife and
mother, signed a very influential document.
With eleven other women from Denbigh and nearby St Asaph in Wales, she
signed a Petition to Parliament asking for votes for women. How did she come to support such a remarkable
idea? .
Was it to do with her family background, or was it to do with new
friends she had made in Denbigh when she moved there four months before? At this distance of time it is impossible to
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Bemrose was born in 1834 the daughter of William Bemrose and his wife
Elizabeth. In the 1861 census she at
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Most of her family members were
practically involved in the business.
Her father William Bemrose, her two elder brothers and possibly her
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Northamptonshire in about 1794 and in 1809 had been apprenticed to Mozley’s
Printers in Gainsborough Lincolnshire aged 15.
In 1810 Mozley’s moved to Derby.
By 1826, when he was 32, William had set up his own printing firm there.
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at Wirksworth. However he soon set up a
factory at Midland Place Derby to make tickets and timetables for the railways.
Ellen was born in 1834. By 1851 the family were living at 35,
Irongate. William and his son Henry were partners in the firm employing "46 hands exclusive of 4 in the family 11
journeymen, 6 apprentices, 22 boys, 2
women and 3 girls.’ There were three
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the factory Ellen’s father now employed 33 men, 36 boys, and 11 women and
girls. Ellen was at home with her
parents, an apprentice bookseller and two servants. Her brothers had married and moved out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">On 26<sup>th</sup> June 1862 Ellen married John
Henry Roberts at All saints Church Derby. He was 24 years old, and was the
Second Master of Derby Grammar School. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">He had entered Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1856, been
ordained a deacon at Salisbury in 1861 and priest in Litchfield in 1862. In the 1861 census he was recorded as an Assistant
Master at Mannamead School, near Compton Gifford, Devon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">The Derby Mercury of Wednesday 23<sup>rd</sup> October 1861 records “ Derby Grammar School-
The vacancy of Second Mastership of this school has been filled up by the
appointment of Rev John Henry Roberts , B A of Emmanuel College Cambridge and
late master of the Lower School, Rossall.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(245, 243, 233); font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;">Derby Grammar School
moved, St Helen’s House, in 1861-2 while Ellen’s husband was Second Master.
Founded in about 1149, by 1865 the transition from traditional grammar school
to public school was already under way under the new headmaster the Rev Walter
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<span style="background: #F5F3E9;">The Denbigh Grammar School - We are able to
announce that the appointment of Headmaster of the school has been conferred
upon the Rev. John Henry Roberts, MA, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, late
second master of the Derby Grammar school. Mr Roberts graduated in 1859 when
his name appeared as senior optime - also in the classical honours. The highly
creditable position he gained at the University is a sufficient guarantee for
his classical and mathematical attainments; while the marked success he has met
with at Derby in preparing candidates for the various competetive examinations,
gives every reason to hope that he possesses all the qualifications necessary
to render him a most valuable and efficient master. The school will reopen at
Easter for boarders and day scholars in suitable commodious premises, for which
arrangements are being made.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Denbighshire Telegraph</span></em></span></span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F3E9;">The Headmastership of Denbigh Grammar School
has been conferred on the Rev. John Henry Roberts, MA, Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, second master of the Grammar School at Derby. Mr Roberts graduated
in 1859, when he was seventeenth senior optime in the Mathematical Tripos and
fifteenth in the third-class of the Classical Tripos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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early in 1866, and it is likely that their early acquaintances in the town
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<span style="background: rgb(245, 243, 233); font-size: 26pt;">Susanna. </span><span style="font-size: 26pt;">Thomas had been a pupil in the grammar school himself and
maintained his interest in the school alongside his Liberal politics, printing
business and passion for Welsh culture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt;"> In
April 1866 John Stuart Mill, newly elected Liberal MP, had suggested to his
step daughter Helen Taylor and her fellow members of the Kensington Society,
that if they could collect 100 good signatures for a petition asking for votes
for women, he was prepared to present it to the House of Commons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kensington Society was a women’s discussion group. It included many women who had already
started to campaign for women’s education and property rights, There were 68
members, aged from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt;">80 to their late teens. Though meetings were in Kensington, at the
house of Adelaide Manning, country members could contribute to the discussion
by post. After a discussion that women
should have the vote, led by the artist Barbara Bodichon, it was decided to
collect signatures for a petition. Mrs
Manning, the hostess of the society, already had several relatives involved as
members, and she turned to her family connections in the search for
signatures. At least ten of her
relatives were persuaded to sign, including her brother’s daughter’s sisters in
law, Clara and Jane Wicksteed who lived at St Asaph, close to Denbigh. It is likely that it was they who recruited
Mrs Susannah Gee to collect signatures in Denbigh. The new headmaster’s wife,
Ellen Roberts was persuaded to sign, as were her neighbours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Vale
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<span style="font-size: 26pt;">It is likely that Susannah Gee asked
Ellen to sign the suffrage petition, along with her neighbours Dorothy James,
Jane Pierce, Anna and Annie Roberts, Anne Davies and Mary Ann Smith, many of
whom may have been her neighbours in Vale Street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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She campaigned for it from the age of 24 and lived to vote herself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Frances Caroline Frend, a sister of Mrs De Morgan. Her mother’s family were involved with founding Bedford College, which pioneered education for young women. . In
the 1851 census her father was a GP in Wimpole Street, where the family were
living. . In 1871 she is with her father. at 251
Stanhope Street , describing herself as an artist . In
1881 census she describes herself as an artist.
In the 1911 census her 100 year old mother is head of the household
which consists of her sister and two servants. Apparently she was active in
Suffrage societies,. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appears in the electoral register at 6 Devonshire Hill in the same house as
Mary Sarah Burt, Maude Olin and Rhoda Wiltshire, all of whom were on the Voters register. </span></div>
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Britain lecturing on the horrors of slavery in America at a time when
Englishwomen rarely spoke in public. After supporting the Suffrage Petition in1866
she trained and practiced as a doctor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of freed slaves, brought up in New York.
She and her brother campaigned
against slavery. Once she went to the theatre and was thrown out because she was
Black. She took the theatre to court and
won. She was unable to continue her education in New York so came over to London
in the 1850’s to further her education at Bedford College and stayed with campaigners
for women’s rights who were active in the women’s anti-slavery campaigns in
Britain. She travelled round Britain as an acclaimed anti-slavery lecturer. After signing the petition in she went to
Florence where she trained and practiced as a doctor for many years. </span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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(1820-1897) Governess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beautiful- Elizabeth Jerdan spent more than 30 years in this difficult profession, and then passed her
retirement alone in a bed-sit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Many of the women who asked Parliament for the vote in 1866 had
experienced the difficulties of being head of a household, as a single parent,
widow, or child supporting an elderly mother.
Many more had lived in such households with all the uncertainty and
poverty which this meant at this time.
For Elizabeth and her mother this was compounded by her father’s scandalous behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with her younger sister in St Mary Abbots, Kensington in 1825. Her parents were William and Frances Jerdan.
William was a writer, who very publicly had a mistress and an illegitimate family. Elizabeth had moved away with her mother to
Guildford where they lived in poverty.
Her mother died in 1856, and 36 year old Elizabeth then had to support
herself. She earned her living as a
governess. In 1891 she was in lodgings as a retired governess in Seymore Place. She
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Use your Vote! Ellen and Ann Jennison could manage a zoo, but they couldn't!</div>
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Sisters in Law Ellen and Ann Jennison were part of an extended family of entrepreneurs who ran the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens with a hotel and other facilities. Both women were involved in te management of ths large and successful enterprise.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2666664123535px;">No 9 </span><b>Jennison, [ Mrs] Ellen</b> Born 1841, In 1861 she was living at the Belle Vue Hotel and Garden with her husband George and her father-in-law the innkeeper. George Jennison in 1871 is ‘ Senior partner in the firm of John Jennision and Co general contractors and proprietors of zoological gardens Belle Vue Manchester employing 153 men In 1881 Ellen was a widow and Assistant manager to her brother in law James Jennison, Part owner and manager of Belle Vue Zoo.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2666664123535px; text-align: center;"> 9</span><b style="text-align: center;"> Jennison, [Miss] Ann</b><span style="text-align: center;"> Born 1835</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">she married Angelo Medina, a musician in 1857 and in 1861 census was living with</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">the extended Jennison family at Belle Vue.Zoo </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Her husband Angelo died in 1869 and she married farmer</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">George Kelsall in 1870.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">She was a part owner and manager of Belle Vue Zoo.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Her mother was a Rathbone.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://manchesterhistory.net/bellevue/menu.html" style="text-align: center;">http://manchesterhistory.net/bellevue/menu.html</a>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-82649347669571611172015-01-25T11:53:00.000-08:002015-01-25T11:53:28.654-08:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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Signed the petition from the family home, 2, Coldbath Street, Greenwich London SE. This
was a poor street at the bottom of Blackheath Hill on the way to Lewisham. Her parents were both working as shoemakers,
but both their children worked hard to gain an education. Maria became a
teacher and her brother Edmund became a professor of Mining , <o:p></o:p></div>
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Samuel Mondy and Caroline Glasscock had married in Deptford in 1839 Both their parents were shoemakers. Mary was
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had moved back to London and were living in Cold Bath Lane Greenwich . Maria now had a younger brother, 5 year old Edmund. Her father was a shoe maker and her mother Caroline
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year old Edmund was an apprentice shipwright.
18 year old Maria is absent and I have not traced her whereabouts. Very probably
she is working in a school, or perhaps was in Lewisham running a small day
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In 1865 Maria was recruited to the London Association of
schoolmistresses, Emily Davies’ organisation which fostered the education of girls
by supporting their teachers. In 1866 she
laft home and was living at 44 Charrington
Street Oakley Square. This was a lodging
house run by a widow, Ellen Theobald. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1867 her brother won a prize from the Royal Society of arts for
mathematics done with Deptford Local Board, he won £3 He won another prize for
mechanics in 1869 He was a ship wright
still. By 1871 Caroline had died, and Samuel has moved to 3 Mount Pleasant
Place, Lewisham Road. For a while Maria ran a ladies day school there in 1860,
so her father may have owned the property already. He is employing a live-in Apprentice and they
have a servant. Edmund is now a student
at the Royal School of Mines. In 1880 Edmund went to India as a professor of
mining, and remained there until he retired in 1903. By 1881 Samuel has moved to Commercial Place
Greenwich and has a house keeper and two lodgers. He is employing two men and an apprentice. By
1901 he is living in Chetwynd Road St Pancras with his new wife (Amelia Hunt,
his housekeeper!) <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1871 Maria was teaching
at Denmark Hill Grammar School, a large boys’ preparatory school in Camberwell,
said to be one of the two best in London. She was one of two governesses, there
were also 3 masters and 37 boys boarding. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She was involved with the Working Women’s College in Queen
Square and you can see an example <a href="https://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromwo185work#page/2/mode/2up">https://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromwo185work#page/2/mode/2up</a>
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At this time she became a mature University student . From 1879-1880 and 1882-3 she enrolled at
University College London for courses. By 1881
she is a visiting teacher, lodging in Crowndale Road with a qualified nurse and
a widow Jane Russell, who is an agent for The Metropolitan Association for Befriending
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still a visiting teacher lodging at at 37 Crowndale Road, sharing with Jane
Russell (now a secretary for a servants
association} and Minnie Baker, clerk to
a reading room and Margaret H Bayton, aged 17, a typist. These young working
women, Minnie and Margaret , are boarders having their meals provided by Maria
and Jane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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National Home Reading Union which offered courses of prescribed books to people
of all classes, with reading circles to support their reading. She wrote a
pamphlet for the Union which includes suggestions for organising reading groups
for young people. . <a href="https://archive.org/details/readingasmeansof00mondrich">https://archive.org/details/readingasmeansof00mondrich</a>
to read it on line!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> From page 4 She writes about her personal experiences
of teaching classes of working class children in Board schools and the
practical ways that she introduced the children to literature.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">721 1896</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“Miss Maria C. Mondy, who is in charge of the
young people’s section of the</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">National Home Reading Union, London, in a pamphlet
on School Libraries, has</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">quoted these words from Sir Walter Scott: To
make boys learn to read, and then</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">place no good books within their reach, is to
give them an appetite, and leave noth-</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ing in the pantry save unwholesome and poisonous
food, which, depend upon it, </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">they will eat rather than starve. She has also
gathered some powerful words</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">from Rev. E. Thring on reading as a means of
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When Maria’s father
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a householder for Crowndale Road as well as West Hill. In
the 1911 census she records living there on her own, with four rooms Before
she died in 1925 she would have been able to vote. When she died in Highgate she left £259..1s..10d
and her Professor brother was her executor.</span>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-51347292249813378882015-01-23T12:18:00.000-08:002015-01-23T12:18:29.173-08:00<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Use your Vote! She couldn't...</span></b><br />
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interested in Indian history, about which she wrote a book.Ancient India, (1859) Returning to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region> after her husband’s death
she married Sergent at Arms Manning. She hosted the Kensington Society meetings
, signed the 1866 Suffrage Petition and was a founder of the National Indian
Association which celebrated Indian culture and welcomed Indian visitors and
immigrants. She became first Mistress of
Girton College.</span><br />
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This frock for a new-born child is entirely stitched by hand- you need a magnifying glass to see the tiny stitches. Ann Briggs would have given employment to local women as seamstresses, embroiderers and knitters. One of her neighbours' daughters, aged 14, was a cap maker.</div>
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1866, two sisters who also ran a Baby Linen shop in Leeds were
declared bankrupt- In the street where
Ann lived, only two doors away at no 55 Wade lane , Hannah Bolton also ran a
baby linen business, and also asked for the vote by signing the petition.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891) </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Campaigner and Artist. A golden haired enthusiast who welcomed George Elliot to London, painted in the Algerian desert, and supported so many friends in their enterprises fo women's rights. Barbara first campaigned for married women’s property
rights in the 1850's, then helped to found the feminist magazine the <u>English
Woman’s Journal</u> at Langham Place. She
gave a paper to the Kensington Society which became the basis for the 1866
women’s suffrage petition, (see my ‘group’ article in the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography ‘ </span><span class="headword"><b>Kensington Society</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(</span><em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">act.</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>1865–1868)’ ) </b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">She helped Emily Davies found Girton College. She was also a successful painter, exhibiting
and selling her work andwhen she died she left thousands of pounds that she had earned from her painting
to Girton College<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> P.
Hirsch,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1827–1891: feminist, artist and
rebel</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> (1998) · S. Herstein,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>A
mid-Victorian feminist, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> (1985)
· H. Burton,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Barbara Bodichon, 1827–1891</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> (1949)
·<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>The
George Eliot letters</i>, ed. G. S. Haight,
9 vols. (1954–78) · A. M. Howitt,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>An art student in Munich</i>, 2 vols. (1853)<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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fought tirelessly for the education of women and girls. She is particularly remembered for founding <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Girton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
opening Cambridge Local examinations to girls and improving the aspirations and
education of schoolmistresses. In 1866
she organised and delivered the petition for women’s suffrage with Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson. She was elected to the School Board for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greenwich</st1:place></st1:city>
in 1870. She first asked for the vote when she was 36 and did not get it until she was 88. This collaged felt shows her when she first asked for votes for women.</span></div>
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Oxford Dictionary of NationalBiography B. Stephen, <i>Emily Davies and Girton College</i> (1927) · <i>The cause</i><i>: a short history of the women’s movement in Great Britain</i> (1928) · A. Rosen, ‘Emily Davies and the women's movement’, <em>Journal of British Studies</em>, 19/1 (1979–80), 101–21 · · M. Bradbrook, <i>‘That infidel place’</i><i>: a short history of Girton College, 1869–1969</i> (1969) · P. Hollis, <i>Ladies elect</i><i>: women in English local government, 1865–1914</i> (1987) · D. Bennett, <i>Emily Davies and the liberation of women, 1830–1921</i> (1990) ·</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Use your vote! She couldn’t</span></b>
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she organised and delivered the 1866 petition for votes for women to Parliament.(Here she is seen surrounded by the names of some of the 1,499 women who also signed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Educated at Miss
Browning’s School in Blackheath, Elizabeth Garrett later trained as a doctor
and encouraged others to do the same. She founded a teaching hospital for women
and practicing herself. She was elected
to the London School Board in 1870 and was first woman Mayor of Aldeburgh
1908-10. She died the year before some
women could vote in parliamentary elections. Her sister Millicent Garrett
Fawcett was too young to sign the petition, but went on to lead the constitutional
campaign for votes for women. </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Biography J. Manton, <i>Elizabeth Garrett Anderson</i> (1965)
· L. Garrett Anderson, <i>Elizabeth Garrett Anderson</i> (1939) · E.
M. Bell, <i>Storming the citadel: the rise of the woman doctor</i> (1953)
· M· M. G. Fawcett, <i>What I remember</i> (1924) </span><span class="med">Elizabeth
Crawford</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> <i>· </i></span><i><span style="color: windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enterprising-Women-Garretts-Their-Circle/dp/1903427126/ref=la_B0034NYKH4_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421699539&sr=1-2"><span class="lrg"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Enterprising
Women: The Garretts and Their Circle</span></span></span></a></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="med"><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">(2002)</span></span><span style="color: windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-12188897908405842662014-08-19T06:04:00.001-07:002014-08-19T06:08:14.111-07:00Augusta Johnstone Actress and Writer<div class="MsoNormal">
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Herbert Street North Shoreditch<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Actress, music and Comedy teacher and writer, </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary Ann Augusta Johnstone was born in Marylebone in 1818. Her parents
had married at St Paul Covent Garden in 1809.
Her father Thomas Oswald Johnstone was in trade at the time of her
baptism. In November 1824 when he was
made bankrupt he was in business as a dealer in music and musical instrument
dealer at Great Queen Street Lincolns Inn Fields . In her later article on Debt Augusta clearly speaks from experience, and who knows what the parents and their 5 year old daughter went through in the following years. . It appears that her father died by 1851. In the 1851 census Augusta was a teacher of
Music and Comedy, living with her widowed mother who was totally dependent on her for
support. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1857 she published
<i>A Woman’s Preachings for woman’s practice, </i>essays addressed to women on
a range of topics, which were apparently first published in a weekly magazine
from 1854.<i> </i><a href="http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/600077362.pdf"><i>http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/600077362.pdf</i></a> The
first essay, addressed to men, is graphic in its descriptions of the violence which women can suffer from their husbands in marriage. On page 80, in the chapter on Art and Artistes she describes the drudgery a middle ranking
actress as well as discussing the fate of young ballet dancers who are at risk of becoming prostitutes . On page 131, in the article on Debt she advises single women on the dangers of getting into debt. The article on
Suspicion is particularly interesting on the double standards which might exist in the Victorian marriage. She herself did not marry, but one wonders if it was her parents'or friends' relationship which informed her strong opinions. She suggests that it is foolish to marry a rake expecting that he will be reformed by marriage. On Page 150 she says .’it is a terrible thing to find you
share his affections(?)[sic] with your own house maid …[or that] a discarded
mistress [comes to your home asking for help] </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1859 she
published </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few out of thousands their sayings and doings </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and in 1864 </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
message from Whitechapel </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which I have not seen, but which are in the British Library.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the next census, in 1861 at 59, Herbert Street, Shoreditch, she describes herself as a theatrical performer and, as well as her mother, the household includes a boarder, widow Louisa Belyer, a German writer of light literature, and a 17 year old maid.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They are one of five households at this address.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">She appears at her petition address in the 1866 street directory as a Professor of Music.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">By 1871, her mother having died, she is lodging with a family at 41 Herbert Street, and is still a teacher of music, again sharing her lodgings with language teacher Louise Belger.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In that census Augusta</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> says she was born in 1827! </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1861 census </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civil
Parish: Shoreditch St Leonard Ecclesiastical parish Holy Trinity County/Island:<span class="srchmatch"> Middlesex</span> Country:<span class="srchmatch"> England</span>
Registration district: Shoreditch Sub-registration district: Hoxton New Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 7 Household schedule number: 61 Piece: 236 Folio:
145 Page Number: 9</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Boughey, Mrs Josephus, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seedley Road, Pendleton, Manchester. A heavily pregnant young wife from Manchester. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mary Fernie
McMichael was born in Manchester in about 1843, In 1861 she was living with her
widowed mother at 55 Upper Brook Street, Chorlton on Medlock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> ( </span>In 1866 two neighbours from Upper Brook
Street signed the petition, Sarah Steinthal an Unitarian Minister’s wife and Mrs
Elizabeth Hope Grundy, whose husband was a professor of Music.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. Mrs McMIchael had two middle aged boarders
(a calico printer and a Drysalter) and a servant . She remarried the next year
and Mary married Josephus Boughey in Cheshire in 1863. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her daughter Mary Fernie Boughey was born on
7<sup>th</sup> July 1866 , just a few weeks after Mary had signed the Womens’ Suffrage
Petition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 1871 census her husband
was a </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolter Down in a forge (</span></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A bolter (belter) down was the first man to receive
the hot billet from the furnace he would then shove it into a pair of steel
rolls with his hand tongs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.When it went through
the rolls it was made smaller in diameter by stretching, i.e. a hot 3" bar
going into a cold 2/12" square hole stretched it and reduced the diameter.
When it went through the rolls a man at the back(cog backer) would catch it
with his tongs and shove it through a smaller hole in the rolls. Each time the
billet would get smaller in diameter and longer in length until the required
size was reached then the long bar would then be passed to the next set of
rolls until the require size was reached.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 24 Sept 1872 the business partnership of
Josephus Boughey in Boughey Burgess and Co was dissolved</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1879 Josephus Boughey appears in Slaters Directory of Manchester and
Salford on page 42 as a householder at Victoria Terrace 201 West High Street,
Cross Lane Pendleton. In </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1881 the couple had moved back to Cheshire and he
was an Agent for Gas Apparatus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Mary
died in Altricham in 1917 she left £135..9s</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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McMichael<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Registration District:</span>
Chorlton<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Sub-registration District:</span>
Chorlton upon Medlock<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> ED, institution,
or vessel:</span> 18<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Household Schedule
Number:</span> 30<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Piece:</span> 2880<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Folio:</span> 6<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Page Number:</span> 6<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1871 census</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Registration District:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Warrington<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
Sub-registration District:</span> Warrington<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> ED, institution, or vessel:</span> 28<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Household Schedule Number:</span> 127<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Piece:</span> 3907<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Folio:</span>
107<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Page Number:<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">28</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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radical, Mrs Hannah Boswell was born Hannah Blakeley in about 1816 at Prestwich,
<st1:place>Lancashire</st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
father was a Book Keeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She married in
1849. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her husband was <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">George Boswell an Omnibus proprietor with 2
live in omnibus coachmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1861 their
address was Omnibus Office Clarence Terrace, Rusholme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George Boswell died in 1863 leaving
£800.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1866 she was probably running
the coach business as her children were still quite young<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Rushholme and Victoria Park Archive <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://rusholmearchive.org/a-tour-of-wilmslow-road"><span style="color: blue;">http://rusholmearchive.org/a-tour-of-wilmslow-road</span></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is a photograph </span>(taken by
Helmut Petschler 1860-70) of a horse-drawn omnibus of the City Omnibus company
that travelled through Rusholme on its way to Didsbury. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The omnibus seen in front of the Didsbury
Hotel is presumably awaiting passengers for the return trip.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the 1871 census she describes herself as a Coach Proprietress and in 1881 she
still owns the business with her son George as manager, as she does in 1891.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she died in 1900 Hannah left £1,450..6s..3d
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District:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Chorlton<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Sub-registration
District:</span> Ardwick<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> ED,
institution, or vessel:</span> 35<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Household
Schedule Number:</span> 23<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Piece:</span>
2874<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Folio:</span> 92<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Page Number:</span> 5</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-23844307529034353722012-11-12T07:41:00.001-08:002012-11-12T07:41:41.391-08:00A<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Hard Life</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah Ann Bebbington signed the petition from 31 White Cross Bank, Salford. When she signed she was 35 years of age. At the time she was a widowed cotton spinner in a cotton mill.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah Ann Brogden was apparently born in Salford in about 1831. Her much younger 'brother' William Henry Brogden is living with her in 1861. this 'brother ' was born in 1847, born to John and Hannah Brogden, a young couple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah Ann apparently married John Bebbington a tailor whose father was a farm labourer in Cheshire..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
had son Samuel John in spring 1856 and her husband died in April 1856. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel appears to have been brought up in
Spurstow Cheshire by John’s parents Samuel and Kitty Bebbington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He works as an agricultural labourer like his
grandfather and lives with them for more than 20 years. In 1861 Sarah Ann <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">working as a cotton winder and </span>is living
with younger brother William Henry Brogden born 1847.. Alone
in 1871 she is again a cotton winder in cotton mill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She married again in 1875.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Her husband was William Gill. </span>He was a railway guard with a young son John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She works as a dressmaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1891 she is again a widow. Her son Samuel John Bebbington and her nieces,(William
Henry Brogden’s daughters) Sarah Ann and Hannah Moreton (with her new husband
Charlie) living with her. She died in April 1792 and her son Samuel, farm
labourer, was executor of her will- she left just £14.10.00</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have not been able to trace her parents, or her marriage date. Her life seems to have been one where she was responsible for dependents, needing to work, and separated from her son for many years. She was one of 63 women who signed the petition in Salford, including a Chief Constable's wife , but also several widows, shopkeepers etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Ann Barton, pioneering Kindergarten teacher,</b> who signed the petition from her home and
school premises at 11 Lime Grove, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester, was born in
Manchester in 1831.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother died
before she was twenty and in the 1851 census she is living with her father and
two siblings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father had a very
chequered business career, which meant that by 1861 she was the
breadwinner with a Kindergarten in the family home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Wrigley Barton was at times a cotton
spinner and cotton waste dealer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
his brother Horatio he went in and out of various partnerships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was dissolved in 1830, another in
1837.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In March 1840 he was declared bankrupt,
and in 1852 having been allowed to trade again, was declared insolvent
(Insolvent no 74,8720)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only months
before Marianne signed the petition, her father had died, leaving an inheritance
of under £20. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Around 1856, however, Marianne had been trained in the
Froebel system of education by Madame Ronge, at the Home and Colonial
Training School in Grays Inn Road..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Presumably
her father must have paid for this course, which shows more evidence of foresight
than his own career reveals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She set up
one of the earliest Kindergartens in Manchester in 1857 at 15 Cecil Street
Greenhays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr and Mrs Ronge came to Manchester to lecture
on Frobel’s methods in 1857 and as a result a Manchester Committee for the Extension
of the Kindergarten System was formed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would be interesting to find the list of members of this
committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagine that Marianne must
have been involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mme Ronge set up a
training school at Whalley Grange shortly afterwards. (see Lawrence, Evelyn
(ed.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Friedrich Froebel and English
Education</u> RKP 1952 p41 )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1861 Marianne
had a 15 year old assistant, Minnette Walker, and was running the nursery from her
father’s home at 11 Lime Grove. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1867
she joined Manchester Board of Schoolmistresses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1871 census shows that she had expanded
her staff and had three assistant teachers living in, including Minnette and Anna
Snell from Dresden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several Froebel
teachers came over to Manchester to help spread the Kindergarten methods, and Anna
may have been one of them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minette Walker
went on to run her own school in Halifax for many years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1881 Marianne had one teacher
boarding with her and 2 servants and had moved to 171 High Street Chorlton on
Medlock</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears that by 1891, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like many unmarried <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>teachers, she had retired to a modest boarding
house – in her case in Penzance- and was living ‘on her own means’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a single woman, with a modest business, it was particularly
admirable that she felt confident enough in 1868 to subscribe to the local
suffrage society The Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage, whilst continuing her pioneering teaching career. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several hundred teachers signed the petition,
but only a few went on, like Marianne, to publicly support the Suffrage Societies
formed following the petition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect
that they had not imagined the opposition that the proposition would provoke
when they signed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fired by the success
of the printing of the petition for University Local Examinations in 1865, it
must have seemed an excellent strategy to distribute the list to the press and
MP’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for many of the women, running
schools, shops and businesses, the publicity must have been problematic and
threatening to their livelihood. However the publicity does not appear to have
affected Marianne’s career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-82797020953997825192010-08-22T10:44:00.000-07:002010-08-22T11:38:05.855-07:00Three Spinsters in Margate<span style="font-family:arial;">At Burleigh House ,13 Cecil Street, Margate, there was a girl's school run by two sisters, Josephine Theakston Waude and Helen Waude. With their older step sister Isabella Theakston they signed the petition. In 1866 they were 36 and 32 years old. They had 24 boarders in 1861. They were interested in improving the standard of the education they could offer their pupils, because in 1864 Josephine had signed the petition to the Syndics of Cambridge University asking that girls should also be permitted to take the University Local Examinations. This petition was successful and by 1867 girls from across the country were taking the exams. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">However by 1871the sisters were on the move and their step-sister Isabella Theakston ( Who dwelt with them , but lived off her own means) had moved to stay with her elder sister Martha Sprunt . </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">These are single women who were in the fortunate position of being well provided for. They were able to start a school, but were not dependent on it for a livelyhood. Their mother Sarah had married twice, both times to coach builders in the [Old?] Kent Road, Southwark. By her first husband John Theakston she had Martha and Isabella and a boy John who had only lived 7 weeks. Martha was the only sister to marry- her husband was publican of the Coach and Horses in Greenwich Market , then worked as a clerk for a gas company before becoming a Licenced Victualler. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">John Waude's two daughters were born in Southwark and their father died in 1850. He appears to have been a very successful coach maker, working in fine materials (there is an Old Baily trial where he gives evidence when his stock was stolen) The girls moved to Rose Hill, Ash near Canterbury and in 1851n census are described as Independent Proprietors of houses. By 1881 Helen, Josephine and Isabella moved to Westmoreland. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">The three women lived out the rest of their lives at Raven Bank, Staveley near Kendal. The house still exists and is a substantial stone house in leafy grounds, built in 1851. Isabella died first, then Josephine- each leaving several thousand pounds to their sisters. The last sister to die left over £17,000 to a Mr Thorp.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">These unmarried sisters appear to have been unusual, in that they were well provided for. Their widowed mother had made a prudent second marriage, and Mr Waude, and possibly Mr Theakston also, had invested in property which provided an steady income for the girls. They had run a school for a number of years- was this in lean times when rents were low perhaps. But unlike many of the single women who signed the petition in 1866, their lives for the next five decades were comfortable and secure (Or did they shiver in their Lakeland home, huddling in one room, economising on everything, property rich but income poor???)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-8359696074492696122010-08-21T09:19:00.000-07:002010-08-21T10:21:20.159-07:00Elizabeth Wilmshurst French and other Kent women<span style="font-family:arial;">I have been asked by a friend to give her a list of women who signed the petition in East Sussex and Kent. She belongs to a local W.I and will ask around among her friends there who will be interested. I started the job yesterday and at once got sidetracked by the women I bumped into on the way. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">The hamlet of Collier Street near Maidstone was the first. The three women who signed there represent a cross section of those who would benefit from the Vote. Eleanor French was a farmer, a widow with young children who ran her hop farm of 40 acres employing 8 men and 4 boys in 1861. She was fortunate not to be a tenant farmer in an area where the landlord was also the MP relying on her for her vote. Farmer's widows would routinely loose their tenancies and living if this was the case. As it was she ran the farm for many years until her son took it over. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mrs Elizabeth Worsley was the wife of the village grocer and wheelwright. In 1861 she had 6 children at home, as well as two boarders and one servant. Her eldest daughter aged 20 was working in the grocer's shop. Unmarried, Miss Wilmshurst French lived at Den Farm with her widowed father. I knew more about Miss French than many of the women, but that little knowledge is tantalising. Imagine a small collection of scattered cottages along a winding lane- a small church about half way along, in an agricultural landscape that in 1866 consisted of apple orchards and hopfields. The churchyard is overgrown, and Elizabeth's tombstone, (when I returned for a second visit to photograph it) had been turned on its face by vandals. She was born in 1832 and died on October 11th 1869. She published a book called "Pebbles and Shells" in 1858 (Now unavailable?) And she was one of the hundreds of forgotten women whose voice has survived... Buried in the Mill Taylor papers in the LSE are two letters from her to JSMill's stepdaughter Helen Taylor, and a draft of a reply . </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">On March 28th 1868 she responds to a request for signatures for a new petition by apologising for the fact that she has no friends to ask...." hetrodoxy of all sorts is so plainly written on my mere appearance that everyone is on his guard against me....My offence is in the fact that I wear trousers, a useful garment..." She has been wearing bloomers for many years. Helen Taylor in her draft reply says that 'fine dress is our armour' and apparently encouraged by a supportive response in the second letter Elizabeth advocates birth control as a way in which women can take control of their own well being. Elizabeth French had also sent a one woman petition to Parliament in 1867 asking for women to be included in the Franchise bill which John Stuart Mill had presented to the House. When writing to Helen Taylor she mentioned that she was unwell and her death followed shortly afterwards. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">When writing of her unusual costume, she said "I have been a trouble to my father, a grief to my friends, ... an object of much looking and a little pelting wherever I wend my solitary way" so I was touched when I read the inscription that father had engraved on her tombstone<em>. "In affectionate remembrance of a beloved daughter, Elizabeth Wilmshurst French who died October 11th 1869 aged 37 years Time is short, Eternity long" </em></span><br /><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Elizabeth French is someone who has haunted me throughout the years of my research- an extraordinary woman living out and attempting to share her radical beliefs in an isolated situation. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">She saw that "the men have the Bible at their tongues end from Genesis to Paul's epistles and the women are cowed and silent. I doubt if I ever knew a woman who dared so much as sign a petition without the approbation of the men , husband or other, who determined the amount of cash she had in her purse and whose temper governed her. Whether women get enfranchisement or not, they need it."</span>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-20254017159351895682010-01-12T10:54:00.000-08:002010-01-12T11:04:37.806-08:00Annette and Fanny AkroydThese sisters were in their mid twenties when thay signed the petition. Annette went on to set up a school for girls in India. She and her sister had been students at Bedford College, and after they left, their teachers invited them to join the Kensington Society to keep up their studies. This was a discussion society- members (about 68, many of whom were teachers or students) got a list of questions to write upon. These short essays were circulated, so that even if members lived away from London, they could share their ideas. At one meeting Barbara Bodichon gave a paper suggesting votes for women, and with encoragement from J S Mill MP, the members collected a petition. Annette later became Mrs Beveridge, and her son's report in the next century led to the founding of the welfare state.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-78833061444286591172010-01-08T10:14:00.000-08:002010-01-08T10:22:49.993-08:00Jane ArdillJane Ardill was about 25 when she signed the petition from 9 Moor Street, Leeds. Her father was a farmer. and had also a business. When she was a child he had worked as a cordwainer, and later manufactured hooks and fastenings. She had trained as a teacher by being a pupil teacher, and may have heard about the petition from Mrs Heaton and Miss Ellen Heaton of Woodhouse Leeds. Mrs Heaton was the Doctor's wife, and his sister Ellen patronised the pre-Raphaelites as well as campaigning to improve the education of women. Jane may have met them through the Leeds Ladies Education Association, which offered lectures for local teachers and other women keen to improve their knowledge. By 1871 Jane was married, and had a young son.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050043872001328501.post-85456471690443528862010-01-08T09:23:00.000-08:002010-01-08T10:51:11.027-08:00Anna Maria AinsworthAnna Maria Ainsworth was only 21 when her mother Sarah Jane Oxley left her second husband after he had physically abused her. Sarah Jane was forced to return to her violent husband, but after his return to Canada and death there in 1874, she remained in Southport. Anna Maria and her sister Helena, (both unmarried), were still living with their mother in 1901. <br /><br />Oops! Jane Ardill as described above was married by 1866- It was her <em>mother</em> Jane- born in 1820 -who must have signed the petition. By 1881 she was widowed and living with her daughter Mary and son in law John Dufton in York.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285420946829883797noreply@blogger.com0