Suffragette records

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

I received an email from Ancestry about their Suffragette records and so I searched for the surname Stowell and was surprised when the first result came up as the 1911 census for Marian Ellen Comben (nee Stowell) I was quite excited by the idea that one of my relatives had been a Suffragette but am unable to work out how this record has anything to do with the suffragette, as it just seems to be the census and other results in the list included her mother and some men.

Any ideas?

[Kit]

I searched as well. There is a specific database solely for suffragettes.

Also bundled into the search you did are the census and another record I can't remember.

You need to have another look and find the suffragette database. It only shows those who were arrested though, so if yours is like my OH's relative she was too minor to be noticed. Although there are many newspaper articles where mine appeared in places to give speeches.

[Kit]

Suffragettes

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Thanks, I did search the arrested list but she wasn't on it. I am just puzzled as to why she came up on my original search, particularly as I searched using the name Stowell and she was already married by then, although I think her mother might have been with her on the census. It all seems a bit random if the results just show people on the census regardless of whether they were suffragettes or not. I have been unable to do the same search that brought those results up yesterday, which seems odd

[Merry]

I am just puzzled as to why she came up on my original search, particularly as I searched using the name Stowell and she was already married by then

She comes up in your results list for 1911 because there is an "Alternative name for this record" of Marian Ellen Stowell recorded for her Comben entry.

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Originally Posted by Merry

She comes up in your results list for 1911 because there is an "Alternative name for this record" of Marian Ellen Stowell recorded for her Comben entry.

That would explain it. Although it doesn't explain how these 1911 census records relate to the suffragettes

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Lynn the Forest Fan

That would explain it. Although it doesn't explain how these 1911 census records relate to the suffragettes

Just because suffragettes were around in 1911? Or because quite a lot of the publicity around the 1911 census when it was released was focussed on the fact that some suffragettes refused to be included?

[Janet]

Thanks, those are interesting records, Lynn. I found you can browse them. There are 387 pages (many of which are blank) but the names are listed in alphabetical order from pages 3 to 115. After that is a lot of correspondence, much of it handwritten. I doubt Ancestry has done anything with those pages other than scan them and describe them under "About this collection." Worth a look.

[Shona]

The suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, locked herself in a broom cupboard in the crypt in Parliament (there is a plaque commemorating the event on the door inside the cupboard), so that she could be recorded there for the purposes of the 1911 census to show that women could get into Parliament!
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...off=&ml_rpos=1

She is also recorded at her lodgings.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...off=&ml_rpos=2

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

That probably is the reson, it is just a shame as I would have liked to have a suffragette in the family