How the book helps with Genealogy
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
Descendants of Our Ethel provided invaluable photographs and information about Ethel. Their much treasured family stories and bible were a great source of information. Chapter One is dedicated to the story of Our Ethel, a working class maid arrested in March 1912 for her part in the WSPU window-smashing protest in London. There are many
Descendants of Our Ethel provided invaluable photographs and information about Ethel. Their much treasured family stories and bible were a great source of information. Chapter One is dedicated to the story of Our Ethel, a working class maid arrested in March 1912 for her part in the WSPU window-smashing protest in London. There are many records for you to check out if your relative was a suffragette: if arrested at all during the campaigning, she will be listed in the Roll of Honour Suffragette Prisoners 1905 to 1914.
Historic Kent Voices
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
From start to finish, the book is about people with Jennifer being an advocate for historic Kent voices. The index of the book lists all people mentioned, even if only fleetingly. This may help genealogists with identifying names and leads.
Furthermore, the stories are not just about those involved in the suffrage campaign: they als
From start to finish, the book is about people with Jennifer being an advocate for historic Kent voices. The index of the book lists all people mentioned, even if only fleetingly. This may help genealogists with identifying names and leads.
Furthermore, the stories are not just about those involved in the suffrage campaign: they also include details of those Kent people that the suffrage campaigners came across. For example, included in the chapter about forcible feeding, are the names and addresses of the Maidstone prison doctors responsible for overseeing the force feeding of suffragettes.
Also, in 1913, the WSPU visited Kent touring in a caravan. They were seeking somewhere to stay in Halstead near Sevenoaks and came across fruit farmer Mr Bowen and his family. The suffragettes reported:
"After dispelling the farmer's idea that we had come to burn his haystacks and the boys' idea that we had come to smash all the windows, the whole family set to work to make us comfortable. They turned out a summer house, where four of us slept, and gave accommodation to the others in the farmhouse, where they served a most delightful breakfast next morning." [reported in The Suffragette, 15 August 1913, p.771]
Specific lists of people
Was your Grandmother a suffragette ?
Specific lists of people
There are many lists of people included in the book that may assist Genealogists:
- Kent signatories of the first mass votes for women petition in 1866.
- Details of people who came into contact with the suffrage societies' caravan tours of Kent.
- Details of the suffragettes forcibly fed whilst being held in Maidstone and Canterbury prisons.
- The n
There are many lists of people included in the book that may assist Genealogists:
- Kent signatories of the first mass votes for women petition in 1866.
- Details of people who came into contact with the suffrage societies' caravan tours of Kent.
- Details of the suffragettes forcibly fed whilst being held in Maidstone and Canterbury prisons.
- The names of the Maidstone prison doctors overseeing the forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners.
- Names of those involved in organising and acting out suffrage plays in Kent.
- Those who boycotted the 1911 census.
- Some of those involved in the NUWSS Pilgrimage from Kent to London in 1913.