14 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/adc9b1474a69c7ac8c5bf4e334f1b445.jpg 56c6406f02c9b8934e0cba912d063060 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: Courtesy the National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b76fc16cdf9ea9fb6ce187dfeb7f9b7e.jpg d3fd23b0855bd9f5ca5507141b1f170b 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 Illustration of Louisa Churchman created & submitted by Malcom Bull. 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 43 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 5 Middle Street, Horsham 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 Louisa Jane Churchman (1868-1943), eldest daughter of a Horsham grocer and wine merchant, was living in 1911 at 5 Middle Street with her widowed mother, sister Emmeline, and three ‘domestics’. In January 1910 she and her mother were on the platform at a crowded meeting at the King’s Head addressed by Florence Basden and Annette Verrall, chair and treasurer respectively of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. That summer, at a meeting at Horsham Park chaired by Brighton’s (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, the Horsham Suffrage Society, was formed. As default secretary of the HSS, Louisa resigned from the local Women Liberals Association, of which she was treasurer, because of the Liberal Government’s disdain of the Conciliation Bill offering to enfranchise single women householders and actively supported Florence de Fonblanque’s Horsham-based suffragist Marchers Qui Vive. In 1914 Louisa and Emmeline resigned as secretaries of the local Church of England Temperance Society because of the exclusion of women from the Chichester Diocesan Synod, declaring that they would henceforth devote themselves to women’s suffrage. When the NUWSS subsequently announced its suspension of political work, it was to Louisa Churchman that local offers of personal service were to be made. War work undertaken by HSS ranged from fruit bottling to fund-raising for the NUWSS Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Following the partial granting of the vote to women in February 1918, Louisa formed Horsham branches of the Women Citizen’s Association, affiliated to the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, and of the League of Nations Association. In the 1920s, now a committed Labour Party member, she identified herself with Labour Parliamentary candidates. In 1923 she became Horsham’s first woman JP; in 1934 she was elected a County Councillor. On her death in 1943 tributes filled the front and back pages of the West Sussex County Times. Contributed by: Independent researcher and 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 Louisa Churchman 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(-36602.2938456964 6632314.90142488) NUWSS 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. Source & Copyright: West Sussex Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6f0524c274141e61390e0f9da1698e38.jpg 1398fd6a417f7403263233e55c8271f2 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: The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b03da5b298f8ede881acf06a04df4f1e.JPG 26ba2b7a5dbfbb65b7d830ea30952977 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 Worthing Women's Franchise Banner. 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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/e9473e104bd86b4d973c26ac764b25e3.png 81b02a7945f34e72e1875b80164ce3a9 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 Pitfield's list of arrests from a Home Office Index of Suffragettes Arrested. Source and Copyright: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/aa660254eb89c42c26cb3c57e6f8e546.jpg ff015337c563bb41d1513eea2b5f398a 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 Photograph of the New Women's Hospital where Ellen worked and resided on Euston Road, circa 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8f88cd96a0dc650ed8339505537b4fcc.jpg 7425d7240592fc4f45f54b15a77f6be8 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 Two wards at the New Hospital for Women from a magazine, 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0e7e9aa14459f901f453b8a3feb1aaa5.jpg 92dfe73ac1f4785bf90478a24c883eb6 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's 1911 census return. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d756f5f2d1e9e602b36514d1f5fdb5cc.jpg 52b27513c88d6828465678d0d5bf7ad0 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 'A Soldier to the Death'. A transcript of Ellen's letter to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/84918023d2093057475927e6cde2f6b0.jpg 4bc1936b2c82a327287882a3c0ce1953 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 Home Office Record of Ellen's final act of militancy at the Post Office in 1912. Source and Copyright: The National Archives (Ref HO144-1193-220196-1-2330086). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Nurse 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 New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. 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 Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Biographical Text Ellen Pitfield was a trained nurse and midwife and probably joined the WSPU in 1908. She subsequently became a fully-fledged WSPU suffragette and was arrested five times during the women’s suffrage campaign for militant activity – twice in 1909, twice in 1910 and once more in 1912 (see image). In 1909, Ellen went on hunger strike during a term of imprisonment and was awarded the WSPU’s Hunger Strike Medal. When she was arrested in November 1910, it was at an infamous protest that became known as ‘Black Friday’ because of the violence meted out upon suffragettes by the police. Ellen was injured in the scuffles that broke out. In 1911, when the census survey was taken, Ellen was working and residing at the New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. The hospital was originally founded by Britain’s first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and occupied several premises before finding a home in Euston Road (see images). Ellen appears on the census survey taken there but resists, refusing to give her information. The census official writes: ’Suffragette – Refused Information’. Subsequently, Ellen discovered she had cancer and would not recover. Her commitment to the suffragette cause is really captured by what she did next despite her diagnosis. A demonstration was organised by the WSPU on the 4th March 1912 in support of which Ellen wrote to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst declaring herself 'A Soldier to the death'. She then set fire to a basket of wood shavings at the General Post Office, also breaking a window there, and gave herself up to police to raise publicity for the cause. That month, she was sentenced to six months imprisonment and was carried from court to the prison hospital. Prison authorities aware of her condition, asked Ellen to swear an undertaking against further militant action in consideration of her early release. She refused but expressed that ‘it was not in her to offend again’. A petition ensued for Ellen's release which likely happened in May. She was cared for upon her release by (see) WSPU Nurse Catherine Pine and Gertrude Townend at their nursing home at 9 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill. She died a few months later in August, 1912. Sources: Various documents courtesy of the National 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 Ellen Pitfield 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(-15053.7347378789 6714840.26613858) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0785f3b2d8cd5d387c7301569e5eb747.png 409f585499c95b99776d7e9d385af046 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 Nurse Catherine Pine (standing) taking care of WSPU leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst (in bed) circa 1913. Source: Ref. 7JCC/O/02/092, The Women's Library Collection at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/026ca624241e87a5d5d57a57e0ddb836.jpg e91f853fb43e8143aefa1243069a03ca 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 Nurse Pine resists the 1911 census survey by boldly writing a protest message across her form. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f65a4782ede99ec3fef40fcf76518796.png b79fe8e5405d1ed59af8e80327dbe869 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 A photograph of the nursing home at 9 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, in 1914. Source and Copyright: The Museum of London, ID NN22859. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Nurse Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 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 9 Pembridge Gardens, London. 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 Born in Maidstone, Catherine Emily Pine trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital between 1895-1897. She was described glowingly during training as ‘punctual, very kind and attentive, very patient and even tempered’ with Ward Sisters recording that she would make ‘a very good nurse’. She remained at St Bart’s working as a hospital Sister from 1900 until 1907. By 1908, Nurse Pine as she would become known, was running a nursing home in Notting Hill and was by then a member of the WSPU. She ran it with fellow WSPU and St. Bart’s trained nurse Gertrude Townend who was injured in a tussle with police in 1913 at Bow Baths Hall. In 1908, WSPU leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s son Harry who was frequently ill, was taken there for treatment as were other WSPU and sometimes family members. Sadly, Mrs Pankhurst's son Harry died there when he was readmitted two years later in 1910. The nursing home, situated by 1909 at 9 Pembridge Gardens, was used by suffragettes recovering from imprisonment, especially after the infamous ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ was passed in 1913 (see our Suffrage Glossary in Resources). In that year, Mrs Pankhurst was released from prison after hunger striking, and Nurse Pine became her devoted carer. However, due to press intrusion and constant police presence at the nursing home, Mrs Pankhurst was moved and cared for instead by Nurse Pine, at several different WSPU member homes (see images). When the government census survey was taken in April 1911, Nurse Pine ‘resisted’. She gave her patient details under protest, as well as her own name, but wrote across her census form in both black and red ink: ‘Above names at request. For the rest No Votes No Information’ (see images). In 1915, WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst set up a hostel to care for ‘illegitimate’ war babies and by 1917, this was situated at 50 Clarendon Road, London. Nurse Pine took joint charge there later joining Mrs Pankhurst in America in 1920. The two then relocated to Canada along with three of the adopted ‘war babies’. However, in 1923 Nurse Pine returned to England when the dynamics of her relationship with Mrs Pankhurst altered with the arrival of her daughter Christabel and her adopted daughter. Nurse Pine never saw Mrs Pankhurst again, but the two kept in touch by letter. When Mrs Pankhurst died, Nurse Pine was at her funeral. Much of Nurse Pine’s suffrage memorabilia is now with the Museum of London. Key source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 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 Catherine Pine 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(-21869.2705607483 6711944.0057773) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7aecd95a1947c77a15acf53f0c9a6e1e.png 8101b75edcefeedcd921dda31a649035 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora Merrifield is centre wearing spectacles. Source: Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d175e7f79a4a31f45fddde42798274fc.png de447cbc9f2770917832f3a9ff94adef 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora is centre. Inscription reverse reads: '21 Jul the Brighton Road’ pilgrimage. Miss Merrifield, the organiser of the ‘Brighton Road’ Pilgrimage standing in front immediately between the figures in the van. The cycle corps, arranged in a row, warn motorists of the approach on the pilgrims, & sell the ‘Commom Cause’’. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8344bd0cf20738bd66e04c10304626cd.jpg 7c08e25addf95413e71a3573984e773c 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: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5432ee21e82e0ccb31a7358ae54bcbdf.png b33bc7d4c4fca3bdc815de71bfb26ca0 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 Clifton Terrace, Brighton in the 1880s. Source: The Regency Society https://sbpc.regencysociety.org/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7d34ab3fe8346f8aa1de65345cd73583.JPG 1534878ba1e51e864212f943cf2e1a14 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 Impression of Flora in the 1920s. Source: Illustration created and contributed by Malcolm Bull. 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 55 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Clifton Terrace, Brighton. 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 Private means Biographical Text Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, born in Brighton in 1856, retained the name of her maternal grandfather, Colonel Victor Pierre-Jean de Gaudrion, of Saint-Malo in Brittany. Her father, barrister Frederick Merrifield, became Clerk to both East and West Sussex County Councils. He and his wife were NUWSS leader Millicent Garret Fawcett’s strongest supporters when she delivered her first suffrage speech in Brighton in 1870. Following her mother’s death in 1894, Flora remained at home with her father at 14 Clifton Terrace, with, according to the 1911 Census, a cook, parlourmaid and housemaid. In 1908 Flora became secretary of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, not only arranging meetings in the town itself, but undertaking ‘outreach’ along the coast and inland. The BHWFS became affiliated to the NUWSS and the meeting to inaugurate the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Federation of NUWSS branches was held at Flora’s home in 1910. Flora and fellow members attended NUWSS Council meetings and took part in NUWSS ‘demos’ in London, and Flora led the Brighton Road contingent in the July 1913 Great Suffragist Pilgrimage to the capital. At the outbreak of WWI, Flora organised a local relief committee, and in 1916 was joint secretary of Brighton’s Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition, held under the auspices of the NUWSS. Following the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, she became chair of the Brighton and Hove Union for Women’s Local Government and Equal Citizenship, the successor to the BHWFS . In 1920 she attended the 1920 International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Geneva, taking up the cause of the newly-formed League of Nations. When she resigned from the executive committee of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (the NUWSS's successor) in 1927, tribute was paid to her work ‘that extended over many years’. She died in Surrey in 1943. Contribute 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 Flora (de Gaudrion) Merrifield 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(-16391.4610585554 6590647.90861549) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2e185afe1b9faa9b2cfa57ed051874f0.png 97981c7f96a3575db20bed40174707ab 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 Edith Bevan, centre, wearing a hat decorated in NUWSS colours, Horsgate. The photograph was taken by Robert Bevan in 1914. His wife stands at the back of the group and his children sit at the front. Edith is seated between her father and her sister. Source: supplied by Frances Stenlake, courtesy of Patrick Baty. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bb7682742c73c36eb34e0263a4b30db8.jpg 931a149c1c77b2124f967662f4db322c 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: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3baa1ae669cb06d9f0a45806af736faa.png 724f3601f3a9d6e455cee157b8c4cac1 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 Edith's home, Horsgate House. Source & Copyright: Cuckfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/033843b3b98f2b6a20359ddc5b98bf57.jpg 0467177aec2c65305fa95987e58cb680 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 Horsgate House today. Source: Photo thanks to Sue Burgess, Cuckfield Museum, May 2020. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9f1e94a7874a31b9785522ec734850d1.jpg e9b0626d19a3af5bf05fb9de38748511 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 NUWSS 1913 Suffrage Pilgrim march through Cuckfield en route to London. Source & Copyright: Thanks to Sue Burgess at Cuckfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4eb5b49ec3add10ba90a049126184e09.jpg da0bc1e6e0406a9dc3b6e07e596b1fdd 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 A young Edith Bevan in the grounds of Horsgate House, circa 1890, with young visitor Greta Dashwood. Thanks to Sue Burgess at Cuckfield Museum. Source & Copyright: Cuckfield Museum. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 42 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 Horsgate, Hanlye Lane, Cuckfield, 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 Biographical Text Edith Charlotte Bevan (1869-1952) was the younger daughter of Richard Bevan, Director of Barclays Bank in Brighton. One of her four brothers was the Camden Town Group artist Robert Bevan. The young Edith began training as a nurse in London but had to return home to look after her ailing mother, and then to stay on as companion to her widowed father. The 1911 census with which she complied, lists her with him, and five women ‘domestics’ and a groom at the family home Horsgate, Cuckfield. In April 1909, at a meeting at Horsgate, Edith co-founded the Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society with Congregationalist Edith Payne, supported by other local Congregationalists including the families of lawyer William Stevens, of artist Fred Miller and his photographer son Douglas, and Charles Clarke, founder and editor of the Mid Sussex Times, which charted its progress from local Cuckfield to Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society in its columns. Reflecting the Bevan family’s profile in the area, Edith and her father became Vice-Presidents of the Horsham Suffrage Society when this was formed in 1910 sitting under the umbrella of the NUWSS. Edith headed the Central Sussex suffragists (their banner made by her brother Robert’s wife, Stanislawa) in the July 1913 Great Suffrage Pilgrimage organized by the NUWSS which saw women walk from all parts of the country to converge in London. It seems likely that, as the first overnight stop en route to London was Cuckfield, the marchers were put up at Horsgate. Edith never addressed meetings herself but her social network enabled her to secure influential and titled suffrage supporters as patrons for the events she arranged. In July 1914, none other than Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the NUWSS, spoke at Cuckfield. As one NUWSS organiser said of Edith’s Cuckfield committee, “I would like to commend their method of mothering baby societies in surrounding villages to other country branches, but I cannot promise them equal success, as they cannot borrow the most potent factor – Miss Bevan.” 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 Edith Bevan 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(-14793.692407422 6624039.31246994) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f7e7646265f14b5adbf3352aec6cb224.jpg 2ebd8403611bc8a934fc47a3ff8bd0fc 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: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8f2fb931b6f312cda6d16f31c7c63f76.png c5b0571219a296bc85b675f77958cd8f 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: Votes for Women, 10 April, 1909 p. 556. 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 38 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 Edith Road, Hammersmith 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 Eleonora Maund married her husband Edward in 1892 at St Pancras when she was 19 years old and he 42. He was the Director of the British South Africa Company and together they had several children. By 1911, they had been together for almost 20 years, during which time Eleonora became a supporter of the women's suffrage cause. Unfortunately, her husband did not share her views. This is revealed by the 1911 census form for the couple, completed by Edward as head of household at their home at 8 Edith Road, Hammersmith, London. Edward filled in all of Eleonora's details but she, by then a member of the local WSPU, wished to evade the census as part of the wider suffragette boycott. So, Eleanor crossed out her details in retaliation, but Edward re entered them in red ink along with the following comment: 'My wife unfortunately being a Suffragette put her pen through her name, but it must stand as correct it being an equivocation to say that she is away she being always resident here & has only attempted by a silly subterfuge to defeat the object of the Census. To which as “Head” of the family I object. E A Maund'. There was clearly considerable tension between husband and wife over this issue, but Eleonora was undeterred. She was committed to the WSPU (at least until 1912) during which time she made financial contributions to its funds and used the couples home to take in WSPU postal communications, store items for its suffrage exhibitions and hold WSPU meetings or 'working party's' there (see image). Given Edward's disapproval of his wife's involvement with the 'suffragette' movement, one can only imagine his outrage that Eleonora used their home for WSPU business. The couples dispute also raised a dilemma for Mapping Women's Suffrage. Eleonora's details are recorded on the 1911 census, so technically she is in compliance. Yet, we know that she did not comply; that she evaded but was recorded by her husband against her will. For us there was no question, that in memory of Eleonora and as testament to her voice and will, her 'silly subterfuge' had to be recorded as it was intended by her - as a census evasion. Thanks to Vicky Iglikowski-Broad for information on Eleonora. Read her blog on this topic 'A Silly Subterfuge' on our News and Events page. 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 Eleonora Maund 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(-23786.548414312154 6709042.784765323) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/56fd3ae9fe55a0f4fc97e1db271336f0.png d543360f98c62561ffac400bf1ac4549 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 Laura Ainsworth in 1911. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f32a89e595631c7a84081fa8b2ec0cac.jpg 227030a6e9254a1c3699ac3def4e7d00 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 1911 census form for 32 Stuart Road, Gillingham, Laura's usual lodgings, but she is absent. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/73eac448fa705cb75848225a3e748f1f.png db32b0b4486eb06ec9f8fe0448c13bf7 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 Laura prepares for the upcoming census boycott. Source: Votes For Women, 3 March, 1911 p. 360. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/904da6c3cbf4de6b12d5d29d79f41c32.jpg 492a94dc41bb401f7501a0691ddcbf14 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 1911 census form for Jezreel Hall, then a Dance Academy, where Laura organized a suffragette census evasion. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU organiser 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 32 Stuart Road, Gillingham 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 Laura Frances Ainsworth was born in 1885 in Northumberland and became a teacher. However, she gave up her position to work as an organiser for the WSPU first in London and then in Birmingham. It was in Birmingham that she was arrested in 1909, for participating in the disruption of a meeting being held by the Prime Minister at Bingley Hall. Laura immediately went on hunger strike in Winson Green prison where she was forcibly fed. She, it was remarked, 'is very determined and it is necessary still to administer food through the tube' (see our Suffrage Glossary under resources for an explanation of Force Feeding). Once released, she was taken to a nursing home to recover. Like many WSPU organisers, Laura's life was peripatetic over the next few years. She worked in Bradford, Bolton, back in London, in Southend, Maidstone and Gillingham. Laura was lodging at (now) 32 Stuart Road in Gillingham in 1911 but was absent from her usual address when the government census survey was taken. That's because as a committed suffragette she was overseeing a mass census evasion of suffragettes elsewhere in Gillingham - at Jezreel Hall, in Canterbury Street. The census return for this evasion, tracked down by suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford (see images) shows the census official recorded at the Hall (then a Dance Academy) a 'Party of suffragettes assembled' consisting of 1 male and 39 females - a considerable evasion. The 'Party' were discovered by the census official after a tip off by the police who were called to the Hall to investigate due to the noise made by the over exuberant suffragettes inside - undoing their own plans to hide out unnoticed! Laura resigned from the WSPU in 1912, when the Pankhurst's split with the well respected Pethick-Lawrences who had been with the WSPU since its very beginning. In 1913, she became secretary for the North-East branch of the National Political League which aimed to push social and political reforms for women and for men - a predicate of which was the granting of the vote to women. Laura died in 1958. Sources: Information provided by Elizabeth Crawford. To read more on Laura's census night exploits, view Crawford's excellent blog on Laura Ainsworth at https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/11/11/suffrage-stories-the-1911-census-the-gillingham-suffragettes-boycott/ 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 Laura Ainsworth 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(61700.05842271136 6687789.894998953) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/510da0ca61dc5d648456c2e6ed99a6f7.jpg cede895aa89a7551b8100bea13702f33 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 Arrest of Grace Roe featured in the Daily Mirror, 1914. Source: Museum of London collections. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/43dcf63da17a3598ab72198812fbb592.jpg 63893e2250a72c53c353025fd961909d 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 Grace Roe's hunger strike medal awarded by the WSPU. Source: Image taken by Hilary McCollum with permission from the Women's Library (LSE). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5d0b2306362f4b57eb2c6ed9b85971a5.jpg 7e28dc3de6ba37bdeb87610b1a60698b 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 Grace Roe was not present at her lodgings in Ipswich when the census was taken and so was probably evading as part of the suffragette boycott. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU organiser Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 25 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 19/21 Silent Street, Ipswich. 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 Grace Roe was born into a prosperous Anglo-Irish family in London in 1885. Her mother died when she was twelve and she was sent to Beadles boarding school. She became a vegetarian in her teens and remained one throughout her life. Grace was captivated by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst’s daughter, Christabel Pankhurst, when she heard her speak in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908. She remembered thinking, “That’s the woman I’m going to follow.” She joined the movement a few months later and became one of Christabel’s most trusted confidants. Her first arrest came during the Great Deputation to the House of Commons on 29 June 1909, but she wasn't prosecuted. In 1910, she became the WSPU’s first organiser in East Anglia based in Ipswich and built up the membership with a series of headline speakers, including Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Grace likely took part in the suffragette boycott of the government’s 1911 census survey as she is not recorded at the address in Ipswich where she was boarding with a family of printers (see census image) and is not recorded anywhere else. In September 1912, Christabel Pankhurst sent Grace to Dublin to secure the release of suffragettes Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, who were on hunger strike after being imprisoned for attempting to set fire to a Dublin theatre. Following her success in Dublin, she took charge of the WSPU campaign during the Bromley and Bow by-election when George Lansbury stood unsuccessfully as a woman's suffrage candidate. Sylvia Pankhurst criticised Grace’s approach to the by-election, especially her decision not to give over control of WSPU resources to the Labour Party. In January 1913, Grace Roe became deputy to Annie Kenney, who had been appointed the WSPU’s Chief Organiser after Christabel Pankhurst went into exile in France in March 1912. When Annie Kenney was arrested on 8 April 1913 on charges of conspiracy to commit arson, Grace took over as Chief Organiser. She was wanted by the police but managed to evade arrest during the police raid on WSPU headquarters on 30 April 1913. She made sure the WSPU weekly paper, by then named The Suffragette, still appeared that week with the front cover announcing, “Raided”. She lived in hiding for the next year, often dressing as a chorus girl to avoid capture, during which time she oversaw the conduct of the arson campaign and protests against the Cat & Mouse Act (see our Suffrage Glossary). She helped organise Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral in June 1913, which was regarded as a propaganda triumph and established The Bodyguard to provide security at rallies, protect the leadership from arrest and help suffragettes to escape. On 23 May 1914, Grace Roe was arrested. She went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. Grace was still in prison when Britain declared war on Germany that year. She was released under a government amnesty for suffragettes and played an active part in promoting women’s employment in industry as part of the war effort, also criticising labour unrest. After the war, she lived for a time with Annie Kenney before settling in America with Christabel Pankhurst. They went their separate ways in 1925 but remained close. Grace was Christabel Pankhurst’s executor and arranged for her memoir to be published after Christabel died. In an interview in 1974, she said that “Christabel was the apple of my eye.” Key sources: Interview with Antonia Raeburn for the BBC, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/womans-hour-grace-roe/z7vcnrd; Interview with Brian Harrison, held by the Women's Library at LSE; Antonia Raeburn, 'Militant Suffragettes'; Elizabeth Crawford, 'The Women's Suffragette Movement'; Annie Kenney, 'Memories of a Militant'; Andrew Rosen, 'Rise Up Women!'; Christabel Pankhurst, 'Unshackled: the Story of how we Won the Vote'; Sylvia Pankhurst, 'The Suffragette Movement' Votes for Women, 20 September 1912 (re Dublin). Contributed by: Writer, Hilary McCollum. 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 Grace Roe 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(128394.34186463468 6810148.118883343) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a04a5ba89f5b22f285e6c91a6dbfcc12.JPG 771ea93d8d90f92cd4148025dd25f415 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 John Percival. Source: Postcard, private collection, Clare Wichbold. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/88abd4a608aafe247c2f84ecf192d316.JPG 80f549af0a2d8cbb9c6e71d82ddc04c9 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 John Percival's home at The Palace, Hereford (entrance). Source: Clare Wichbold. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d990daf5348fb6c45c1ebb938645449b.JPG 34b69085527b42bfb456669bd8e2e4c6 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 John Percival's home at The Palace, Hereford. Source: Clare Wichbold. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7600554881e4c82a42f20662baff12cc.jpg c40001d8039faf48348f3b90a3bd3d02 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: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Clergyman Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 76 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 The Palace, Hereford 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 Complies Biographical Text John Percival (1834-1918) hailed from Westmorland. He studied theology at Queen’s College Oxford and spent many years in education, including as the first Head Teacher of Clifton College, Bristol, and Headmaster of Rugby School. Married in 1862, he and his first wife Louisa had eight children. Percival championed the cause of women’s rights throughout his teaching career. He was involved in the foundation of Somerville Hall (now Somerville College, Oxford) in 1879. In 1888 he appointed Marie Beauclerc to teach shorthand to boys at Rugby School, the first woman to hold such a teaching post. He became Bishop of Hereford in 1895 and was widowed the following year. He found working in a large rural diocese with very conservative views a struggle. However, together with other liberal clergymen, Bishop Percival expressed support for women’s suffrage in print and at meetings. He remarried in 1899 to Mary Georgina Symonds from Oxford. As bishop of Hereford, his usual address was The Palace, Hereford where he is located on the map. However, in 1911 Bishop Percival was visiting Much Wenlock when the government census survey was taken, staying at the Vicarage with the Reverend Edwin Bartlett. Mrs Percival was visiting her sister in Oxford and also completed the census. Bishop Percival was active in condemning the forced feeding of women prisoners, and again spoke out for those detained under the so called ‘Cat and Mouse’ Act or The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act 1913. This allowed the authorities to release hunger strikers until they had regained their health, then re-arrest them in a continuous cycle. He was a member of the Church League for Womens Suffrage, named in the list of clergymen printed in the June 1912 CLWS newspaper. In February 1914 he added his name to the long list of clergymen who wrote in support of the women’s suffrage petition and voted in support of Lord Selborne’s Bill for the enfranchisement of women in June 1914. Bishop Percival later became a vice president of the CLWS, but the loss of his son Lt-Col. Arthur Jex-Blake Percival early in World War I was a severe blow. He became an ardent pacifist and found his views increasingly at odds with the established church. Bishop Percival retired in 1917, and moved to Oxford, where he died the following year. He was buried at Clifton College in Bristol. Source: Oxford DNB. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser Clare Wichbold, MBE. 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 John Percival 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(-302405.29782127746 6809815.126378191) CLWS