4 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2febcefcbf5453749a18c19c37e10447.jpg 70ee7297c72d07a1aa46956cded894d6 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 44 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Vicarage, Butts Warwick, St Mary's Warwick, CV34 4SS 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 Annie attended several local CUWFA meetings often with her husband the Reverend Alan Williams. 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. The two travelled together to London in June 1911 to take part in the Women's Coronation Procession organised jointly by suffrage societies as an alternative to the Kings official procession from which women were excluded. Annie also likely belonged to the Warwick and Leamington Church League for Women's Suffrage and her daughters Marjorie and Joyce may also have been active in the suffrage movement. Researcher: Tara Morton. 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 Annie Isabel Williams 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(-176755.74799278515 6851531.18540805) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/45ebb7ce288f3a46d023d2f121330dea.jpg 581597e952528c81ed76789c65fa9c64 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 Annie Kenney postcard. Source: Parliamentary Archives, STH/DS/4/9/3 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5404882615709b48e19f908848f9c611.jpg bcd46b804f451c733ff42054ad82c61c 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 showing refusal to give information. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3fd727ca9d0e1351637b57d2aee032c9.jpg 3355161218e82d39882884709111bdf0 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 Annie Kenney in a car with Mrs Pankhurst. Source: Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, UCL Press, 1999). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5c026989053a6067cfa5db223040f7c5.jpg 71310a1c79696a0b06a6d10931a79d19 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 Annie on front cover of Suffragette magazine. Source: © The British Library https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7766bb8ef2a1185bcfd6dcdc21f78fa1.jpg b611daea1904eab40ee5d4652f009691 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 Annie's National Registration Act 1915 certificate. Source & copyright: Estate of Annie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/51b47143be30aafc5833ec96795f4158.jpg 421044876e930acc8bea1b41ec5c139a 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 Annie Kenney holding her son Warwick. The reverse reads: 'Warwick Kenney Taylor at three months old. Taken Isle of Arran, Scotland, 1921.' Source: Estate of Annie Kenney. All rights reserved. Kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b90e9473b0a883019c38c07ef4529968.jpg d9b2a83792ba445438201863cc8e4f6e 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 Annie Kenney statue in Oldham. Source: image Jim McMahon MP https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Suffragette Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 31 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 Whatley Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PS 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 Annie Kenney was born to Ann Wood and Horatio Kenney in Lancashire in 1879. Three of her sisters, Jessie, Jane and Nell, were also involved in the suffrage movement. She began part-time work in a mill at 10 years old, meaning the image of her as a suffragette mill girl was often used in campaign propaganda to appeal to working class women. After the sudden death of her mother in 1905, she was invited with her sisters to the spring meeting of the Oldham Trades Council, which was focused on the suffrage movement led by Christabel Pankhurst and Teresa Billington. After attending, Annie promised to set up a meeting with other factory women in Oldham and Leeds. On the 13th of October 1905, Annie was arrested with Christabel Pankhurst at a Liberal party meeting held by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey in Manchester. Annie had asked if the Liberals would make Women’s suffrage a government measure, and the pair were removed from the meeting forcibly without getting a reply. Annie was charged with obstruction, and the two refused to pay the fine. instead, being imprisoned due to the publicity it could create. Annie was imprisoned for 3 days before being released. This was one of the first arrests for militancy under the suffrage movement. Her actions led to her being invited to travel to London with Teresa Billington and to pose her question to Sir Edward Grey again. The money for her was raised by raffling a picture of Sylvia Pankhurst and a social gathering of the Manchester Labour Party. She asked Sir Edward Grey again, and when he didn’t reply she interrupted his speech, leading to her being evicted from Albert Hall. Annie helped set up the first WSPU meeting in London, approaching Keir Hardie, W.T. Stead and Isabella Ford to rent out Caxton Hall. Despite her working-class background, Annie was effective at winning over wealthy women to the cause, both Lady Carlisle and Clara Modran were won over by her appeal. The future treasurer Emeline Pethick-Lawrence was also won over by Kenney. On the 9th of March 1906, Annie marched, with Irene Fenwick Miller, Flora Drummond and a group of other suffragettes to 10 Downing Street. They demanded to see the Prime Minister and clung to the railings and door knocker, although the police were called, the Prime Minister didn’t press charges. Annie was arrested a second time in June 1906 after leading a deputation alongside Adelaide Knight and Minnie Baldock outside Henry Asquith’s house. She was imprisoned for 6 weeks, and upon her release, she did a lecture around Yorkshire and Lancashire. After the success of the first women’s parliament in February 1907, she went back to Lancashire with fellow suffragette Adela Pankhurst to mobilise female textile workers. Many of these women travelled to London for the second women's parliament in March, and 75 of them were arrested outside parliament. Annie was made WSPU Organiser in 1907, being paid £2 a week. On her arrival, she was helped by Bristol suffragettes Anna Maria and Mary Priestman (see map) among others. She spoke at the first WSPU meeting in Bath hosted by Mary Blathwayt, with whom she was close friends and stayed with on many occasions. Mary Blathwayt and Christabel Pankhurst were both heavily influenced by Kenney. Annie resisted the 1911 census while living in Bristol, citing her occupation as a suffragette and refusing to provide any more information. She claimed to have housed a large group of resistors, but the evidence makes this uncertain. After the window-smashing campaign in 1912 that led to Christabel fleeing to France due to warrants being out for the WSPU leaders, Kenney became the surrogate leader, regularly travelling to France each weekend. This continued until she was arrested in April 1913 for inciting a riot. She was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment but was released under the Cat and Mouse Act due to her hunger strike. This led to a recurring pattern of re-arrests, hunger strikes and releases. In August 1913, her frail state after a hunger strike was used by the WSPU as she was brought to meetings on stretchers. After this event, she evaded until she tried to seek sanctuary with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who refused. After this and until the outbreak of war, she evaded the police before leaving for America to help suffrage campaigns in Dakota, Montana and Nevada. Throughout the war, she supported multiple Pankhurst campaigns before resigning in 1918 from helping the Pankhursts after Christabel's failed election campaign. She married John Taylor in 1920, whom she met on the Isle of Arran. They had a son, Warwick Kenney Taylor, in 1921, and Annie resigned from the suffrage movement to live a quiet domestic life dedicated to caring for her son. She died in 1952, aged 73. In 2018, a statue of Kenney was erected in Oldham to honour her pivotal role in the movement. Sources: Liddington, Jill, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census Manchester, 2014); Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999); News, BBC. 2018. ‘Annie Kenney: Statue to Mark “Overlooked” Suffragette’, BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-45918651> [accessed 9 June 2025]; Coughlan, Sean. 2018. ‘Imprisoned Suffragette Letter Discovered’, BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45576262> [accessed 9 June 2025]. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., 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 Annie Kenney 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(-290850.6037335786 6703913.603399612) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0ba95007250e113d937b3c6182dddb65.jpg 0a1679a065123e8ebdaf3d7dbe1e31fb Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Secretary Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 29 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 76 Holyhead Road, Coventry 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 Averal was born in Coventry in 1882 and by 1911 was living with her brother (a solicitor) her mother, an aunt, and two servants at 76 Holyhead Road. She joined the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (CWSS) - a local branch of the large and law abiding NUWSS - becoming its Honorary Secretary. Averal was also Honorary Secretary and committee member of another local society - the Coventry branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (now the RSPCA) organizing its competitions and entries for the city's May Day parade. As a law abiding suffragist, Averal complied with the government's 1911 census choosing not to take part in the suffragette boycott of the survey that year. In 1913, she wrote a series of articles exploring women's role in the politics of local government, published in the newspaper The Coventry Herald. Through her role in and with the help of the CWSS, Averal was central in founding the Tipperary Club in February 1915, located in the city's Old Palace Yard. The club provided all manner of help and support for the wives and mothers of local soldiers and sailors caught up in the First World War. Its services included invaluable free childcare facilities and health advice from Doctors, as well as providing reading material, refreshments and fortnightly entertainment for women and children. Averal's legacy via the Tipperary Club was felt for many years in Coventry. So positive was its impact on the local community during the 1914-18 War, that it was revived during the Second World War. Averal remained interested in expanding women's role in political life. When women finally got the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, Averal stood as a Labour candidate for Coventry City Council - narrowly missing out by 46 votes to the Conservative candidate. She had by then moved to Lion's House, Allesley, where she compiled a history of Old Allesley and was active in the local Women's Institute there (meetings were held at the Parish Rooms) among other parish work. Sadly, her contribution to local women's causes was cut short. Averal suffered an untimely death aged just 47 due to complications following an operation for appendicitis. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry 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 Averal Wilks 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(-170527.32229622678 6875324.554322377) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f7467d475c08d39cfad27f6c048f37e0.jpg 88c90947949658e6f1e55f07ab95f44e 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 48 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Lodge Farm, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, CV35 0JH Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Lieutenant Colonel Warwickshire Yeomanry 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 The Hon. Basil Hanbury was active together with his wife Patience within the local suffrage community. The two regularly attended local CUWFA meetings together in 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 Basil Hanbury (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(-170600.5385175363 6831023.5820506085) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5dc96f87b3b7b71457ab581ba1b02279.jpg e4cde140c0e5c9989b6cdb1beb50e52d 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 38 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 3 Cape Rd, Warwick CV34 4JP 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 Beatrice attends several local CUWFA meetings. 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. Her husband Albert, who was Assistant Director of Education and County Inspecting of schools, does not appear to have accompanied her. 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 Beatrice Annie Bateman Brown 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(-177031.72014237233 6851776.4989511315) CUWFA Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Working for a Varnish and Colours Manufacturer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 22 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 67 Owen Road, Wolverhampton 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 Beatrice Alice was born 1889, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Carrier. In 1911, she was living with her family at 67 Owen Road, Wolverhampton. Beatrice worked for a Varnish and Colours Manufacturer, so likely at the same firm as her father Thomas. Beatrice became a member of the Wolverhampton branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. She was actively involved collecting subscriptions and delivering notices for the society in the district of Penn Road. Beatrice does not appear to have married, and died in Wolverhampton in 1961. 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 Beatrice Carrier 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(-238648.616760743 6905593.90263312) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6c840bca742e1f3fb2d24acd4edd97dd.jpg b2bd89453aa1e1e98bb6077be5f2f511 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 Beatrice & Harry with daughter Muriel, circa 1897. Source: provided by Laura Probert courtesy of Beatrice's grand daughter, Diana Spence. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/777d644b85d89a0c794ce816157d2faf.jpg 8528470a90a2bc1db42d882d6c74f79d 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 Beatrice's daughter Muriel being 'forced' by her mother to parade up and down Weymouth seafront to advertise an NUWSS meeting circa 1911. Source: provided by Laura Probert courtesy of Beatrice's grand daughter Diana Spence. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/599bc160d855f5908ffb59fba0810688.jpg a012b445cbf5cd2b43d927821064a9e2 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. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Independent means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 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 2 Lyndhurst Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent 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 Beatrice Ethel Chapman (b. 1864) was born Oetzmann, and was descended from a German family. She married Harry Chapman when she was 32 years old in 1895. Harry was manager of a watermill in Hertfordshire but Beatrice felt that the damp river valley was an unhealthy place to bring up her two daughters so spent long periods living by the sea in Margate. She was a strong character and rather eccentric, who was fiercely argumentative about the “superiority of women”. While in Margate she threw herself wholeheartedly into the work of the local suffrage society. She was Honorary Secretary for the Margate NUWSS. This information was published in The Common Cause, 4 July 1913 as part of promoting the NUWSS pilgrimage from Kent to London. Beatrice was recorded in the 1911 census, but her husband is not listed as he remained in Hertfordshire. Her two daughters, Beatrice Muriel, 14, and Florence Furnival, 10, are both recorded as scholars. Throughout 1913, and up until the outbreak of war in 1914, Beatrice, in her capacity as Honorary Secretary of the Margate branch of the NUWSS, wrote almost weekly to the local papers on matters concerning women’s issues and the suffrage campaign. For more information see, Jennifer Godfrey, Suffragettes of Kent, (Pen & Sword Ltd, 2019). Researched & contributed by Jennifer Godfrey. Since appearing on the map, Beatrice's story has been added to with thanks to local Kent historian Laura Probert who also provided images courtesy of Beatrice Chapman's grand daughter Diana Spence. 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 Beatrice 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(155986.99304981498 6689949.575973454) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bc92147a87b2a903b74982cf39434795.jpg 3cf6de43eafb5804ca06dce175101962 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 Barford Rectory, Wellesbourne Road, Barford, Warwick, CV35 8BS 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 Beatrice was Honorary secretary of Barford CUWFA in 1911 and attended several local meetings often with her husband the Reverend Ingham Brooke. 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. The two travelled together to London in June 1911 to take part in the Women's Coronation Procession organised jointly by suffrage societies as an alternative to the Kings official procession from which women were excluded. 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 Beatrice Harriet Ingham Brooke 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(-178347.995197176 6844756.213553345) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d2726577a83389f0965932b40494189c.png 54290812152f2985e3958e4057d0186b 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 Photo: Elizabeth Crawford, womanandhersphere.com https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1ff899ee478cc3bb099cd7bd37b1795f.jpg 97be6a7337c01fd1eb15dbcaf1f50965 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 29 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 19 Hermitage Road (off Hagley Road) Birmingham, B15 3UP Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation No Occupation 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 Bertha Ryland joined the WSPU in 1908 and quickly threw herself into work. In 1910 she set up a WSPU base in Lichfield and spent the first few months of 1911 drumming up support in the Midlands towns of Walsall, Stafford and Hanley. Later in 1911, she took part in the WSPU window smashing raid for which she recieved seven days imprisonment. Perhaps unsuprisingly, Bertha also took part in the illegal boycott of the 1911 census - hence she is absent from the census form and from her home on census night. A committed 'sufragette' Bertha went on to smash more windows the following year, and was subsequently sentenced to four months hard labour. she was sent to Winson Green Prison where she went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. in 1914 she used a cleaver to damage the painting Master Thornhill in Birmingham Art Gallery. For more on Bertha, see, E. Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001) & https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/03/22/suffrage-stories-from-frederick-street-to-winson-green-the-birmingham-womens-suffrage-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 Bertha Ryland 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(-217183.3914237219 6885721.240974309) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1c1df0d5d18ff23904bd75fa7c218275.jpg 4604640320ad79ce45ad5da041793d6b 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 Bessie Drysdale. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-LLoyd Collection, NYPL. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/49504d983811ee32977aab201ebf37af.jpg ac1af1f0b3520c79be8665b6df646e1c 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 Bessie (tall figure left of centre) on 7th October 1911 march to Holloway Gaol. Christabel Pankhurst is on the right. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-Lloyd collection, NYPL. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6b64732de69489be1ed65ef351185f0d.jpg 4ba81d8dc68265afa1a14cc202d72445 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 Bessie's 1911 census return with a written protest across it. Source: Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5115c6e1adc84a03b687304cca007c4d.jpg a7d20b10d8cbaa3ca74cdb012dcd4b08 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 Bessie (extreme left) at the Birth Control Congress, Holland, 1910. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, NYPL. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 35 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 49 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London 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 Bessie Ingman, known as Mrs Drysdale, was the ‘daughter-in-law’ of Dr Alice (Drysdale) Vickery and, like Alice, moved from constitutional to militant campaigning. On 14 February 1907, as a member of the WSPU National Executive Committee, she was one of 52 women arrested during a march to the House of Commons and spent 21 days in Holloway. In November of that year, she became a member of the first NEC of the breakaway WFL. In 1908 Bessie was a WFL delegate at the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Amsterdam; Charles Drysdale represented the MLWS. The involvement of the whole family in the campaign was demonstrated in the June 1908 procession to Hyde Park, organised by the WSPU: ‘in the WFL contingent, secretary Edith How Martyn walked with a pretty little girl, Eva Drysdale, whose father marched with the MLWS, whose mother was with the prisoners, and whose grandmother took her place with the veterans.’ (The Vote 25 June 1910) Bessie wrote across her page in the 1911 Census: ‘As the Government refuses me a vote and as I am not therefore recognised as a citizen, I refuse to perform the duties of one in giving the information required by the Government’, signing with her name as a member of the WFL. She represented the WFL at the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Stockholm that summer, reporting on it to The Vote, acknowledging some material supplied by Margery Corbett Ashby. At this time Bessie, Charles and Eva lived at 49 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Alice lived at 47 and a local WFL branch was formed here, with Bessie as secretary. Photographs in the Schwimmer/Lloyd Collection in New York Public Library show that on 7 October 1911 Bessie and Charles took part in a procession to Holloway Gaol to protest against the imprisonment of Clemence Housman, for non-payment of rates. In one photograph Bessie is identified as the tall figure left of centre; on the right is Christabel Pankhurst. It is likely that Charles took and inscribed the photographs showing Bessie. He himself appears in another photograph, probably taken by Bessie, as the man on the right carrying a banner, immediately in front of Clemence Housman herself. Bessie remained on the WFL NEC until April 1912, when she and several other prominent members, including Edith How Martyn, announced that they had left to campaign independently. It was at this time, and presumably for Eva’s health, that the Drysdales acquired 13 acres at Heathfield, East Sussex, where they built a house, Cherry Croft, and Bessie attempted to establish a women’s co-operative fruit and chicken smallholding. After Eva’s death in 1914 this enterprise was abandoned and Bessie, during the War and under the auspices of the Malthusian League, published a series of leaflets emphasizing the need to reduce the birth-rate at a time of such shortages. After the War, she travelled the country, arranging meetings held by the American birth control campaigner, Mary Sanger, and promoting Ministry of Health birth control information. Sources: Frances Stenlake, 'Heathfield Story Discovered in New York Public Library' Sussex Family Historian, June 2014; LSE WL 9/01/00/90 HO-45-24665 arrest list; Women’s Franchise; The Vote; Votes for Women; The Woman’s Leader; The Times; Kent and Sussex Courier. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Independent researcher & writer. 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 Bessie Drysdale 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(-21442.360313615558 6723580.905478084) WFL