Making a protest on a census form

[Jim Strawbridge]

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I am researching women who served in WW1 and died. This entails searching out censuses. One of my women is Lillian Beatrice Nichols who died in 1919 whilst working as a VAD orderly. As can be seen from the 1911 census the mother and two daughters used the census form as a protest as it has written across it "Votes for Women". I haven't seen this before.

Edited 7 August , 2018 by Jim Strawbridge

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47 minutes ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

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I am researching women who served in WW1 and died. This entails searching out censuses. One of my women is Lillian Beatrice Nichols who died in 1919 whilst working as a VAD orderly. As can be seen from the 1911 census the mother and two daughters used the census form as a protest as it has written across it "Votes for Women". I haven't seen this before.

Interesting - I have heard of it but never seen an actual example.

Craig

[TEW]

Yes, interesting. Wonder which one wrote it. looks like the W of 'women' is the same as the W of 'widow' as written by the mother Eliza Nichols.

 

Finsbury Park during the war became something of a hot bed.

TEW

[RaySearching]

You can wait ages for a bus to come along 

then two come together

 

There was also the mass boycott of the 1911 census running into the thousands by the Suffragettes 

 

 

Ray