Cousins united.
Miss Ada Maria Yates (1839-1904)
Miss Maria Christina Elizabeth Byam (1834-1925)
98 Lansdown Place Brighton
Some twenty four women signed the Suffrage petition in Brighton, including these young women who came from army officer families, with strong links to the aristocracy. Ada Yates and Maria Byam were well connected young women who were never to marry.
Ada Yates was born in India. Her mother died when she was about three years old. . She was brought back to Brighton where she lived with her uncle, The Rev Whannell Yates, and widowed aunt Mrs Byam. For a number of years her relatives ran a small preparatory school. Their young pupils were often, like Ada, children born in India, several were from aristocratic backgrounds. By 1867 Ada's father had returned from India to die. He left only about £800. When Ada died in 1904 , she was still living at Lansdown Place with her uncle. Intriguingly Ada left £11,711..8s..4d when she died.
Maria Byam was one of eight sisters. Her mother was Elizabeth Augusta Temple, daughter of a baronet and in 1851 her father was a colonel. Alongside the gaggle of sisters, finally there was a little brother,`Temple aged just two. The family clearly loved Brighton, as they had a house there (Byam House) as well as the family home in Warblington, Hampshire. In 1866, when Maria was visiting her Yates cousins at 98 Lansdown Place, she signed the petition with the other women in Brighton. She had moved to Los Angeles by 1910 where she was living in a boarding house on her own income. 15 years later she died there leaving £1768..19s .3d.
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