10 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/494d9afaaa294124165064b1192a6c05.jpg 2f5a472e5d530fa69efe626b2515143b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The CLWS General council meeting, July 1913 in Brighton. Pictured: Elizabeth Close Shipham (9) her sister Katherine Close (8) and (9) her daughter Monica Close (10). Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2b6f5f7b4acba750b5a955014057cf11.jpeg bab19791dde9e9b8d36e4ae4ab6ae142 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elizabeth is absent from the census record. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Unknown Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 39 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 84 Embleton Road, Lewisham, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Elizabeth Mary Margaret Close (1872- 1949) married Frank Percy Bevill Shipham, schoolmaster, at Forest Hill in 1897. She probably trained as a teacher around that time. She had three children between 1903 and 1909. The Shiphams lived at Islington, Blackheath moving to Lewisham in 1909. The first indication of Elizabeth Close Shipham’s involvement in women’s suffrage comes in 1908 when she donated a shilling to the NUWSS fund for a procession and meeting at the Albert Hall. The Lewisham WSPU reporter, R May Billinghurst in July 1909 wrote that Mrs Shipham gave a very interesting lecture on ‘The Higher Education of Women’. The first General Council of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage (CLWS) assembled in May 1910. Elizabeth was appointed to the executive committee. The Lewisham CLWS was formed at the end of 1910. The group met at Hither Green with Rev. FH Rice as president, supported among others by Mr and Mrs Close Shipham of 84 Embleton Road, Lewisham where they were living when the census was taken in 1911. Elizabeth became Branch Secretary and spoke at CLWS meetings in Brighton and Greenwich. Elizabeth evaded the 1911 census survey by the government joining in the suffragette boycott. Frank Shipham was at home in Lewisham with their daughter, Monica. Instead of describing himself as the head of the household (see image) Frank wrote that he was ‘married to the occupier’. Their sons, Hilary and Christopher were staying with their grandmother, Prudence Close at 48 Rutland Gardens, Hove. Also in the house were Prudence’s sister, Naomi and daughters (see) Evelyn and (see) Ethel Close and a servant. The whole household, except for Prudence, described themselves as suffrage workers and disenfranchised. Elizabeth is not listed nor her eldest sister (see) Katherine Close. In February 1912, Elizabeth spoke at the Lewisham Working Women’s Guild meeting on ‘The Disabilities of Married Women’. In May, her report in the CLWS magazine stated that the three societies representing women’s suffrage would petition the Mayor of Lewisham to urge the Government to take immediate steps to enfranchise women. Elizabeth spoke at Hackney in July, addressed the Women’s Freedom League in September and the Woolwich CLWS branch in November 1912. She resigned as Branch Secretary for the Greenwich and Lewisham CLWS in November 1912 due to ‘indifferent health’’. The CLWS General Council meeting was held at Brighton in July 1913, hosted by the Brighton and Hove Branch and organised by Kate Close, Elizabeth’s sister, and the rest of the committee. Elizabeth Close Shipham appears on a photograph of the event with her daughter, Monica aged ten and sister, Kate Close (see images). Elizabeth remained on the Executive Committee of the CLWS until 1919 when many branches were closed because of the war and enfranchisement. She was described as being a ‘constant and effective help’. In the 1939 Register she was at Harrogate. Her occupation was given as ‘Lecturer in Languages at Morley College (London) for Working Men and Women’. Elizabeth lived in Hampstead in later years, and died in 1949 at Brighton. Researched & contributed by local and family historian Margaret Scott who is related to the Shipham family. 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Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Close Shipham Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-2179.85826841044 6703084.51393511) CLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2fc4223ae18c19a8119123c1b1338fc5.jpg 95a15695b4de9469f739ce645553c51b Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Longbridge Manor, St Mary's, Warwick, CV34 6RB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation No occupation Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Elizabeth was present at a number of CUWFA meetings often with her husband Robert, an Enigineer and Major with the Warwickshire Yeomanry. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together. As a number of 'Miss Airth Richardson's' are also present at some local CUWFA meetings, it is likely that one or more of Elizabeth's four daughters were also active for the campaign. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Evelyn Airth Richardson Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-178949.34308635755 6847457.134935699) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/066b68b8df94e2a35f113c345cf70ddc.jpg f71d2b31be9885405f2422f3a8d648f1 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 56 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Bishops Farm, Lighthorne, Warwickshire, CV35 0BB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Elizabeth was married to the Honourable and Reverend Walter Verney, Rector of Lighthorne and Vicar of Chesterton who died in 1912. She and her daughter Clare were present at several combined Warwickshire CUWFA meetings throughout 1911. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth G Verney (the Honourable) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-167153.0189680639 6834171.005306485) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/32354c308289ba5727383433274e1c21.jpg 8dce129dbe4a3b4b6eab2ead314ab833 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elizabeth's census in which she describes herself as 'Household drudge'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4860192142a2422874bee8bea8c4a53d.jpg 3e97bc641eb94b3e556c08bef075154f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Express & Star, 21 March, 1907. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation 'Household Drudge' Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 32 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 8 Chequer Street, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Elizabeth Price (nee Matthews) was involved in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) as well as the Women’s Freedom League (WFL). She was born in Worcester in 1879, and married Arthur Price there in 1898. Arthur became a printer with Whitehead Brothers, St John’s Square, Wolverhampton, and the couple and their children were living at 8 Chequer Street, Penn Fields, in 1911. Elizabeth was associated with the Labour movement in Wolverhampton, but unlike (see) Emma Sproson remained relatively unknown until, on Wednesday 20 March 1907, she was arrested along with Emma and 74 other suffragettes following a further raid on the House of Commons. The names of all the women were listed in the Express & Star the following day. The newspaper also interviewed Elizabeth’s husband, Arthur, who said that the first he had heard about his wife being arrested was in the morning’s newspapers (see images). Asked whether he minded about what his wife was doing, he stated “Not in the least; I believe in it!” He also dispelled the myth that their home was neglected while his wife carried on her suffragette duties, as “My wife would not have gone to London if she had not known the home would be looked after.” By 1911, it is likely that Elizabeth like Emma Sproson had moved away from the WSPU toward the WFL. When the 1911 census was taken, Elizabeth was present and recorded but she is classed as a resister on the map to acknowledge her powerful statement under occupation as 'household drudge'. This was not an occupation that census officials would have recognised as legitimate, yet it was one that many women would have understood. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Price Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-238822.052527375 6903950.63976965) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a56a42c37fa3ab0dd018951dfe16b279.jpg 02ce68df4ecde816e5b30e7d0bf98aed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elizabeth Robins in 1893. Source & copyright The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3e7259a5c035b623201a17a4b4f9a8c7.JPG b88bfa6be350deee0fcfa7eef75f4878 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Backsettown Visitors Book signed by Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Mabel Tuke (and HG Wells) 29 May 1909. Source: courtesy of Henfield Museum collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d681e435d097374e4698ae2001fefe17.jpg 89ff5b2798fb1cf2e6b12e88e9ffa4bb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Postcard of Backsettown House, 1912: Source: courtesy of Alan Barwick (collection). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1a1da423579bf282e93cc0faea0c6d62.png a4e174dcd28925b605add37bc42ea054 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 1911 census record for Backsettown House. Source: The National Archives & Henfield Museum collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9eb39c5d61ba3d801edf86797d194ae5.jpg 236a9b7f372539bdb9ddfa9d71fbccc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elizabeth Robins with Evelyn Millard in Stephen Phillips’ Paolo and Francesca, performed at St James’ Theatre, March 1902. Source: courtesy of Alan Barwick (collection). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Writer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 49 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Backsettown, Henfield, West Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Henfield’s best-known suffrage campaigner is American-born actress and writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952). Particularly acclaimed for her performances in Ibsen’s feminist plays, she retired from the stage at the age of 40 and joined the London Women’s Suffrage Society. By 1909, when she came to live at Backsettown, Henfield, she had switched to the WSPU. As a member of its committee, she wrote articles for the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women and argued the suffrage case in letters to the Times. Elizabeth’s play ‘Votes for Women’ was commissioned by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, treasurer of the WSPU, and performed at the Royal Court Theatre in April 1907. Speaking engagements took her all over the country. She shared platforms with the Pankhursts and Emeline Pethick- Lawrence, and sometimes stood in for Emmeline Pankhurst. In June 1909, a major Brighton and Hove WSPU event was a lecture by Elizabeth at Hove Town Hall, advertised by a Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage (MLWS) member displaying a large poster on his boat moored off Palace Pier. Signatures for 29 May 1909 in the Backsettown Visitors Book (see image), include those of Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, and Mabel Tuke, WSPU secretary. Backsettown is reputed to have welcomed suffragettes evading arrest or recovering from imprisonment and hunger striking. Christabel Pankhurst stayed two nights in March 1910 and in March 1912 the police searched for her there. As well as being a member of the Actresses Franchise League, Elizabeth was President of the Women Writers Suffrage League, and led its contingent in processions such as the Coronation Procession of 17 June 1910 (see our blog ‘A Fragile Unity’). A few weeks later she took part in a meeting in the Henfield Assembly Room addressed by representatives of the NUWSS. In April 1911, Elizabeth refused to provide the required details for the government census survey, instead inscribing her page ‘The occupier of this house will be ready to give the desired information the moment the Government recognises women as responsible citizens’. In December 1911, she chaired the first WSPU meeting to be held in Henfield. She and speaker Isabel Seymour, a WSPU administrator, ‘were listened to with rapt interest’ and several new members joined. Elizabeth’s swansong as a WSPU star speaker was the WSPU ‘mass meeting’ at the Albert Hall on 15 June. She resigned in October 1912, when Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence were expelled for expressing misgivings about the WSPU’s escalation of violent and destructive action. They had founded and edited Votes for Women; the last Sussex entry in the final issue of this, dated 18 October 1912, concerns a special late train to Henfield booked for the night of Emmeline Pankhurst’s speech at the Brighton Dome on 22 October. The late train may not have had many takers: Elizabeth led strong support for the Pethick-Lawrences in Henfield. In 1918, with a first measure of women’s suffrage about to be granted, Elizabeth wrote to NUWSS President, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, hoping for her presence at a celebratory suffragist dinner: ‘This moment of Victory is a time to turn from points of difference to the many points of agreement’. Sources: Votes for Women, Suffragette, Common Cause, Brighton Gazette, LSE Women’s Library 7MGF/A/1/135, Henfield Museum website blog by Robert Gordon: Elizabeth Robins - A New Woman. Contributed by Independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8ec7379fdb148e276f80d5d3d066cdaa.jpg 3233926f47a416ee3114bbbf576235d9 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 1 Portland Place, Leamington Spa CV32 5HY Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation None Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Elizabeth lived at Portland Place where she boarded with the Russell family, and two other tenants including Grace Newbury, a member of Leamington’s law abiding Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA). Elizabeth described herself as a 'suffragette' on 1911 on her census form under occupation, providing generally sketchy details, thus taking part it seems in the suffragette boycott of the census that year. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) did have a presence in Leamington, most notably in (see) Mary Bull, and though it is not certain Elizabeth was a WSPU member this is likely given her self identification as a 'suffragette'. Some suffrage societies saw the 1911 census as a unique opportunity for civil disobedience. The purpose of the census then as now, was to enable the government to compile statistics about the population and it has always been a legal requirement to complete it. Militant societies like the WSPU and the Women’s Freedom League, organised an illegal census boycott encouraging women to either abscond from their homes on census night - hence go ‘missing’ from government records - or, to simply refuse to give the relevant information. This seems to have been Elizabeth's tactic, but it was risky. Refusal to comply could result in a hefty fine or imprisonment. So, while we may know little else about 'suffragette' Elizabeth Walsh, the census form tells us she was a brave and committed campaigner. Contributed by: Tara Morton. Research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Walsh Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant |3|0.0000000|0.0000000|osm POINT(-171633.0810620206 6852787.565768077) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e3ed6fa274975c9de21b746008a1840f.jpg 23077bb77bd3a0378a5dd74fd3c7fdca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elizabeth (centre) on balcony during the 1911 Women's Coronation Procession. 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Courtesy: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2366bfa3495c233b21614377c2a3fb2e.JPG 8b6cb7eff8b48f6005d8b76fad967ae1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 'Buxton House' Elizabeth's home in Congleton. Source: Google Maps 2021. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/19194664e9bb63872180a5f4fd300ac5.jpg 617fc27b3a3947193834170fd1655e7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 1911 census form. 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Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 77 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Buxton House, 23 Buxton Road, Congleton, Cheshire Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) was born in Manchester. Her mother died when she was very young and her father, a Methodist Minister (who remarried to Elizabeth’s stepmother Mary Wolstenholme) also died when Elizabeth was around 10 years old. An orphan, she attended the Moravian school at Fulneck near Leeds, until the age of 16. Her desire to attend the newly founded Bedford College was quashed by her guardians, so she continued her education unassisted and worked as a governess. Later, using her inheritance, she opened a private girls' boarding school in Boothstown, and in May 1867, moved it to Congleton, Cheshire. One of her pupils was later suffragette Frances Rowe. Perhaps because of her own experiences, Elizabeth was committed to improving access and standards of education for women and girls. She joined the College of Preceptors in 1862, meeting Emily Davies, to campaign on this issue. In 1865, she founded the Manchester Schoolmistresses Association and in 1867 established the North of England Council for Promoting the Education of Women with Mrs Butler and Miss Clough. Their work led to the University Extension Movement and the delivery of lectures for women students in Cambridge, facilitating the foundation of Newnham College. Elizabeth Wolstenholme was an active campaigner for women's suffrage for more than 50 years. In 1865, she was honorary secretary and founder of the Manchester Committee for the Enfranchisement of Women with the purpose of collecting signatures for the first petition in support of women's enfranchisement in 1866. In 1868, she became the secretary of the Married Women's Property Committee and with Lydia Becker and Josephine Butler she founded, and became honorary secretary of, the Committee for Amending the Law in Points Injurious to Women. She gave up her school in 1871 and moved to London to work for the women's movement, lobbying Parliament regarding laws detrimental to women. Around this time, she started a free union with Ben Elmy. They shared secular values and lived together without benefit of marriage until 1874, when Elizabeth became pregnant. They decided to marry in a civil ceremony due to social pressure as their situation was considered scandalous. It threatened Elizabeth’s role in the suffrage movement and regardless of relenting to marry, she had to resign her position on the Married Women's Property Committee. The couple had a son Francis (or Frank). Ben Elmy died in 1906. In 1877, the women's suffrage campaign was centralised as the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and in 1889, Elizabeth was a founding member (with Harriet McIlquham and Alice Cliff Scatcherd) of the Women's Franchise League, which she left to found the Women's Emancipation Union in 1891. She pressed the NUWSS to revitalize its campaign in the early twentieth century, offering help and services, but was frustrated by the lack of response. In 1903, Elizabeth was invited onto the executive committee of the WSPU. Now 70 years of age, she expressed a refreshed excitement about this “new wave” in the movement. She was supportive of militant action and took part in the WSPU Hyde Park rally in 1908, leading the ‘North country’ procession on the Euston Road with Mrs Pankhurst and ‘Lancashire lasses’ (see images). She took to a balcony for the Women’s Coronation Procession, on the 17th of June 1911 where a banner described her as ‘England’s Oldest Militant Suffragette’ (see images). Despite belonging to the WSPU at the time, Elizabeth complied with the government’s 1911 census rather than boycotting it, so we find her at home in Buglawton, Congleton, with her son. In 1912, she resigned from WSPU after her opinion of militancy changed, now feeling the moment was right for using constitutional methods once more. She was the only WSPU member to sign the public letter of protest against militancy that appeared in The Times on 23 July 1912. In 1913, Elizabeth became vice-president of the Tax Resistance League and gave her support to the Lancashire and Cheshire Textile and other Workers' Representation Committee headed by Esther Roper. Elizabeth died on 12 March 1918 in Manchester, sadly just six days after the Representation of the People Act received the royal assent granting the vote to some women. Despite her central role in campaigning for female suffrage and women’s rights throughout the 19th and early 20th century, her role was overlooked in suffrage histories for many years. This may have been a legacy of the scandal associated with her private life. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1966-1928 (London: 1999); Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (1987); Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885-1914 (1995); Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: 2014). Contributed by Oihane Etayo (Warwick University) & Tara Morton Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-245029.33865263467 7014367.456917796) WSPU Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Paid organiser for Nottingham WSPU Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 39 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 8 East Circus Street, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Nellie was a Women’s Social and Political Union organiser in Nottingham. She was born in Stogumber, Somerset; her father was a Doctor, and she was a cousin of Emmeline and Dorothy Pethick. In 1906, Nellie was a strong Liberal Party supporter, being honorary secretary to the Wellington's Women's Liberal Association, but became disillusioned. In 1907, she left the party of 'a Government which persecutes women' to join the WSPU and spoke at the founding meeting of the WSPU branch in Bath as well as at the Hyde Park rally in 1908. She was appointed as WSPU organiser for Yorkshire, based in Sheffield, and then in 1909 became WSPU organiser in Nottingham until 1912. She was first arrested in 1909, taking up her post in Nottingham directly after a hunger strike. She was next arrested in London on Black Friday in November 1910. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Nellie was an early visitor to Eagle House, Bath, where hunger striking suffragettes went to recover. On 7th February 1911, she planted a tree, an Abies Magnifica in the Suffragette Orchard there. She evaded the 1911 Census and cannot be found anywhere on census night. However, her address in 1910 and 1912 appears to have been 8 East Circus Street which trade directories indicate was where John Wykes, a cab proprietor and his wife, took in boarders. So, it seems likely this was also Nellie’s regular address in 1911 and hence where she is located on the map. An advert in the ‘Votes for Women’ newspaper Oct 27 1911 also has Miss Nellie Crocker at 6 Carlton Street (aka Clinton Chambers where various businesses and offices rented space) selling underclothes for the WSPU Christmas Fair, so this was likely a local WSPU office address she also used. Nellie was involved in the first wave of largescale window smashing in London which led to her being imprisoned in Holloway for 3 months from March 1st – June 4th1912. On 4 March 1912, she attacked a post office in Sloane Square, London, smashing its windows. A policeman had followed her and her two conspirators from the Gardenia restaurant in Covent Garden. This was her eighth arrest. Nellie recalled the hustling and jostling of the Westminster protests and how suffragette Mary Leigh was so skilled in ju-jitsu, that it took six policemen to arrest her. She was involved in seven by-elections, organising WSPU interventions. She recalled a by election in Nottinghamshire where “our good driver armed himself with a large iron rod which he placed under his seat to protect himself.” Nelly left Nottingham and the WSPU in 1912, probably in protest after Pethick relatives (Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence) were effectively forced out of the WSPU. Later in life, Nellie wrote an account of her suffragette activities which she presented to Girton College, Cambridge. She was a member of Suffragette Fellowship and left them the residue of her estate. Nellie wrote in her memoirs in 1949 that ‘Modern Young Women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”. She lived in Maida Vale, London, and died in 1962. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group ISBN:978-1-900074-31-; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (1999). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellen (Nellie) Crocker Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-128694.79349582722 6974434.564862663) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4467ed178c39f3803723051e8e8bd266.jpg 9beffd8bcceb14d7ee98ec6acff7e1d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ellen Chapman in the Worthing Gazette, 1916. 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Source: Courtesy of Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/484ff93e5fb90c3a72649c79a1e68afa.JPG b5d46ba6430482203746178eaca3ce40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire banner. Source: Courtesy Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 64 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Shrubbery, Broadwater, Worthing, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Occupation None given Biographical Text Ellen Chapman was born Ellen Preston in 1847 in Clerkenwell where her father was a wholesale druggist. The 1911 Census lists her as Ellen Chapman, widow, living at The Shrubbery, Broadwater, Worthing, with four servants. The Shrubbery since demolished, stood on the site of the current fire station in Ardsheal Road. A member of the Conservative Women’s Franchise Association, the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society, and the NUWSS, Ellen became President of the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society, formed at a meeting she arranged in November 1909, chaired by Brighton’s (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. The number of members enrolled enabled affiliation to the NUWSS and in June 1910 Worthing joined the Brighton and Cuckfield branches in the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire NUWSS Federation. Ellen chaired meetings, took part in deputations, debates and suffragist theatrical entertainments, held fund-raising fetes in her garden, and repeatedly sent repudiations of militancy to the local press. She attended the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Budapest in July 1913. Thanks to her, the WWFS was able to rent town centre premises, first at 31 Warwick Street, then at 1 Warwick Street, opposite the Town Hall. In 1911 Ellen became Broadwater Town Councillor, elected unopposed. Four years later she was appointed Mayor, but the Council subsequently decided that while the country was at war a woman should not hold such a high office. Towards the end of 1918, as President of the Worthing branch of the National Council of Women, she chaired the meeting announcing the formation, under the auspices of the NCW, of a Worthing branch of the Women’s Citizens Association, then chaired the inaugural meeting of the Worthing WCA. In 1919 she became one of the first two women West Sussex County Councillors. When Ellen did become the first woman Mayor in Sussex in 1920, she was reappointed for a second year, and, under the League of Help scheme to aid areas of France devastated by the War, instigated the town’s adoption of Richebourg L’Avoue, where so many Sussex soldiers had died. Championed by the Worthing Gazette as having ‘contributed such conspicuous sanity towards the feminist question in particular’, she sadly died too soon to see women granted equal franchise in 1928. Contributed by: independent researcher & writer, Frances Stenlake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellen Chapman Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-42170.7174133824 6591146.30201326) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d93e36ecba2b2aa34f66a3ad211a9967.png 10bc4c83517fa4388c003e8c0e7bfbf6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9f839c1c7e39c7661b5cd473deecff1a.jpg e3a7016c0eed4c7a6d9f26ea10c56448 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 51 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 12 Milverton Crescent, Leamington Spa (on Strathearn Road) Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation None Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Ellen lived with her husband Andrew a Bank Manager, and was Treasurer of the Leamington Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1911. Researcher: Tara Morton. Research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellen Dykes Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant |3|0.0000000|0.0000000|osm POINT(-171758.0037945714 6853463.561538595) NUWSS