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Suffragette Mary Raleigh RICHARDSON, 1882-1961 Canadian family ???
Can her Canadian background be verified? Belleville, Ontario?
There may be some doubt about the stories that Mary told about her background and her suffrage experiences and achievements...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Richardson
https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/2373/miss-mary-raleigh-richardson
http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/mrr.html
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Where does she fit into your Family History? If no connection - what is your interest in her?
Have you found her on the Canadian 1891 census?
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1583536
Why do you doubt she was Canadian if everything else says she was? If she was b 1882/83 she was rather young to travel from Canada to France in 1898
You can also look for Canadian births here
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1520604
Have you found her on the 1939 register which should show her full birthdate?
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East Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1705-1963
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1961
Street Address 46/47 St. James' Road
Residence Place Sussex, England
Parliamentary Division Hastings
Sandra
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Name Mary R Richardson - 1883 - 1961 (aged 78 years)
Registration district Hastings Sussex
Volume 5h Page 401
Sandra
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East Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1705-1963 for Mary Raleigh Richardson - 1956
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1956/59/61
Street Address 46/47 St. Jamesâ Road
Residence Place Sussex, England
Parliamentary Division Hastings
1957 - 46/47 St. Helenâs Road
Sandra
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Richardson, Mary Raleigh (1882/3-1961), suffragette and political activist, was brought up by her Canadian mother in Belleville, Ontario, and her grandfather. She returned to Britain when she was sixteen, studying art and travelling to Paris and Italy.
https://hildakean.com/?page_id=290
Mentioned various books - Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
https://flashbak.com/the-suffragette-and-fascist-mary-richardson-and-the-rokeby-venus-at-the-national-gallery-29704/npg-x45559-mary-raleigh-richardson-by-criminal-record-office/
https://hildakean.com/?page_id=290
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Might be a link to this male infant death ??
Raleigh Richardson - Birth Date 28 Aug 1884
Birth Place Hastings, Ontario, Canada
Father Arthur M Perkins
Mother Harriet Richardson
Harriet Maria Richardson and Arthur Noah Perkins - Married on Wednesday, September 1, 1880 in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario.
FIND A GRAVE
Raleigh Richardson PerkinS 1884 - 25 January 1885 (aged 0–1)
Burial - Belleville Cemetery
Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
Sandra
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Might be a link to this male infant death ??
Raleigh Richardson - Birth Date 28 Aug 1884
Birth Place Hastings, Ontario, Canada
Father Arthur M Perkins
Mother Harriet Richardson…
Great find, Sandra!
If it wasn’t already mentioned above, a Richardson and a Purkins are on the Hastings(?) 1891 census. (Sorry for no additional details; I already closed the page).
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Excellent detective work Sandra 🔎🕵️♀️
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Harriett Purkins was divorced; included in the household was a Marguerite Purkins, and 8, born in
Quebec Ontario. Could she be Mary?
Added: sorry, I am doing two things at the same time. Harriette was not divorced; she was the daughter of Robert Richardson. I’m stopping now before I make any more mistakes. ;)
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Harriet M Perkins passed away 21 st November 1897 Hastings Ontario. Malignant Disease of Uterus.
This could be why one of those articles mentions Mary going to England when she was about 16 years old ? Being brought up by her mother and grandfather - Grandfather Robert Richardson born England 1825 was a Bank Manager on the 1871 census - Belleville, Hastings West, Ontario
FIND A GRAVE
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227299100/harriet-m_j-perkins
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227299100/harriet-m_j-perkins#view-photo=228187998
Sandra
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There is at least one tree on Ancestry that appears to be this family. However, they state that Margaret Mower Perkins passed away in 1961.
Ok, back to my other project.
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I am so delighted by all your responses and links that i am now reading carefully.
Particularly the various comments of the Historian Hilda Keane https://hildakean.com/?page_id=290
I like the comment that Mary re-wrote her biography several times. I think that we should all follow her example!
I am always interested in suffrage issues and all the leading thinkers of the era.
My grandmother was reputed [not found] to have chained herself to Tower Bridge, London and I also have some Richardson family.
Thank you again.
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Massachusetts Passenger List - Margaret Browers Perkins - (as per ancestry transcription)
Margaret Browers Perkins - born 1883 Belleville Ontario (aged 25 years) single -
Departure Place Liverpool, England - Last Residence Place London, England
Final Destination Place Boston, Massachusetts - Arrival Date 5 Feb 1908
Arrival Place Boston, Massachusetts on the Cymric - Had been in the USA 1906 in NY.
Complexion Fair Eye Colour Brown
Hair Color Brown Height 5 Feet 5 Inches
Person in Old Country Name Miss Em Perkins - Aunt - Dorchester Street. Montreal.
Person in US Name Mrs Waber - going to Adams House, 69 Bedford Street. Boston. MA.
Sandra
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Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
Margaret Mower Perkins - (Female) - Baptism Age 0
Event Type Baptême (Baptism)
Birth Date (24 Jul 1882)
Baptism Date 17 Nov 1882
Baptism Place Montreal (Montréal), Québec (Quebec), Canada
Baptism Church Saint Andrew; Montréal
Place of Worship or Institution Presbyterian Saint Andrew
Religion Presbyterian
Father Mower
Mother Harriet Maria Jane Richardson
Sandra
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SANDRA
Thank you for these last two interesting records.
What alot of detail on the 1908 passenger list returning to Boston from Europe.
Perhaps I will now be able to find her on the UK 1921 census,
I also wonder why the Montreal cleric takes the trouble to write the long formal record. Did he do this for every baptism?
LISA suggests that the mother Harriet was divorced and died in 1897. The estranged father dying in 1903. Perhaps these events contributed to the later adoption of the RICHARDSON surname and the borrowing of the RALEIGH forename from her deceased brother. These issues may go some way to explaining her later complex [disturbed] adult life as a militant suffragette.
She is supposed to have 'adopted' a boy whom she named Roger Robert RICHARDSON. I wonder if this was a late natural child.
Roger Robert Richardson Adopted ?
1928–1992
BIRTH 14 APR 1928 • Bournemouth, Dorset, England
DEATH APR 1992 • Bournemouth, Dorset, England
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Harriet was not divorced - the "D" stands for daughter to the head of house.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWL7-WKT
London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Mary Raleigh Richardson Electoral Date 1918
Street Address 28 St. Ann's Vicarage
Ward or Division/Constituency Bermondsey and Bethnal Green
County or Borough Tower Hamlets, England
Mary Raleigh-Sj Richardson Electoral Date 1923
Ward or Division/Constituency City of Westminster
County or Borough Westminster, England
Mary Raleigh-Richardson SJ Electoral Date 1924
Street Address 6 Major
Ward or Division/Constituency City of Westminster
County or Borough Westminster, England
Mary Raleigh Richardson Electoral Date 1925
Street Address 22 Great Russell Street
Ward or Division/Constituency Holborn
County or Borough Camden, England
Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, Electoral Registers, 1889-1970
Mary Raleigh Richardson - Residence Date 1926
Residence Street Address 2 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England.
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1927
Residence Street Address 2 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1928
Residence Street Address 59 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1929
Residence Street Address 59 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1930
Residence Street Address 59 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Raleigh Richardson Residence Date 1931
Residence Street Address 443 Fulham Road
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Rayleigh Richardson Residence Date 1936
Residence Street Address 2 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Mary Rayleigh Richardson Residence Date 1937
Residence Street Address 2 Oakley Street
Residence Borough Kensington and Chelsea
Residence Place London, England
Sandra
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SANDRA,
Many thanks for researching all these Electoral Rolls addresses
I am puzzled by the Ward name which covers both sides of the river Thames.
Mary Raleigh Richardson Electoral Date 1918
Street Address 28 St. Ann's Vicarage
Ward or Division/Constituency Bermondsey and Bethnal Green
County or Borough Tower Hamlets, England
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I have yet to track down the address or Vicarage or Church of "28 St. Ann's Vicarage" Perhaps it disappeared in the bobming of WWII?
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Perhaps this is the St Ann's address?
https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=51.51168%7E-0.030127&lvl=19.0&sp=Point.51.511674_-0.030314_Church+of+St+Anne___&style=g
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A little background on the Perkin family.
The Perkin family seemed quite well to do. The Miss EM Perkins - Aunt referred to was Elinor M Perkins (sister to Arthur Mower Perkins) who was the last of the Perkin family to pass away 21 st November 1921
FIND A GRAVE
21 st November 1921 - Cimetière Mont-Royal
Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109043055/eleanor-moore-perkins
Sandra
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John Adams Perkins Snr 1801 - 1871
Cimetière Mont-Royal
Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108230714/john-adams-perkins
John Adams Jnr (Advocate) 1840 - 1875
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108230715/john-adams-perkins
Margaret Perkins (advocate) passed 1812 - 1888
Lived Sherbrooke Street. Montreal.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109043069/margaret-perkins
Sandra
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SANDRA,
Thank you for extending the PERKINS and the MOWER families. You seem to be very familiar with all of the Canadian Public Records.
I am in the middle of reading the impressive 20 page essay from Hilda KEAN which covers some of the dillemas of any historian or genealogist and the possible predjudices and judgements that we bring to interperate the documents that we might find.
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"Some Problems of Constructing and Reconstructing a Suffragette’s Life: Mary Richardson, suffragette, socialist and fascist."
HILDA KEAN
Ruskin College, Oxford, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT
Drawing on recent work on feminist autobiography, this article discusses the ways in which a range of autobiographical writing was used by Mary Richardson, a former suffragette, at different stages of her life. It considers the ways in which autobiography was rewritten to fit various political circumstances and to suggest political continuity and cohesion. The article explores the role of the historian in analysing her writing and raises questions about the use of autobiography in history. Mary Richardson – suffragette, socialist, fascist – used autobiographical writing at different periods in her life to give meaning and a sense of unity to her range of political, public activities. A study of the way in which she constructed her self in written forms at different times of her life may be illuminating both for a study of autobiography as well as for the development of suffrage in popular memory. My own interest in Mary Richardson’s creation of her life follows my earlier research on the ways women had constructed their own identities through public activities and autobiographical writing particularly in a period of political downturn for feminism. In Deeds not Words [1] I looked at lives of teachers who were suffrage feminists and the way in which the suffrage movement was depicted by them as determining their existence after the vote was won and throughout their teaching careers. Subsequently I looked at various suffrage autobiographies of the 1920s and 1930s and explored why autobiography was used as a medium of writing. Drawing on the work in particular of LuisaPasserini and Alessandro Portelli, I explored some of the myths which were created and argued that the suffrage autobiographical opus had become almost a collective invention of the past.[2] I stressed the important role played by such autobiographical writing in helping historians understand.
Women’s History Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1998
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09612029800200184?needAccess=true
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I have also found an online archive, a readable copy of Mary's autobiography 'Laugh A Defiance'
https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-DDF-869/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
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Great stuff Sandra, well done. :)
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Thank you. :) Probably a gap to fill after Mary left Canada to Paris, Italy and UK. Change of name as well at some point,
Sandra
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Suffragette Mary Raleigh RICHARDSON, 1882-1961 Canadian family ???
Can her Canadian background be verified? Belleville, Ontario?
Hi Elliot
May I ask, what is your interest in Mary Richardson? There may be something I can help you with.
Rosie
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Greetings to you Rosie. Just seen your post.
My maternal grandmother was a RICHARDSON and as I have tried to verify the family myths [or fibs] that, as a suffragette, she had chained herself to Tower Bridge in London. In the course of my researches, I also came across this other RICHARDSON with an interesting RALEIGH middle name. Some biographers have suggested that some of her stories were exagerated.
I look forward to hearing your stories.
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I hope that you got my PM....
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I hope that you got my PM....
Looks like that was the only post from Rosie and not online again since.
Hopefully she will eventually pick up your pm. Hope so.
Sandra
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I hope that you got my PM....
All I have from you is one message asking if I received a previous message. And the site won't let me respond to you.
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Greetings to you Rosie. Just seen your post.
My maternal grandmother was a RICHARDSON and as I have tried to verify the family myths [or fibs] that, as a suffragette, she had chained herself to Tower Bridge in London. In the course of my researches, I also came across this other RICHARDSON with an interesting RALEIGH middle name. Some biographers have suggested that some of her stories were exagerated.
I look forward to hearing your stories.
Mary Richardson cannot be your maternal grandmother. She died a childless spinster. She adopted a boy, Roger Richardson, who in due course had 5 children. His mother's surname was Betts.
Sadly all the research into Mary's possible real origins are not of any use to you.
Best of luck!
Rosie.
Mary Richardson was never reported in the press as chaining herself to anything. Nor did she claim to have done so in her autobiographical anecdotes which, were not exaggerated but wildly inaccurate or invented.
During my research I came across three other suffragettes with the surname Richardson. One was a lifelong spinster but the others were a Miss and a Mrs Richardson, presumably mother and daughter. I know nothing about them. They were unrelated to Mary so I scrolled on past them.
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Sandra,
thank you so much for taking such good care of everybody!
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Rosie has been back online today, but having only made one post can possibly not use the message system yet.
* post twice more Rosie. A smiley will do
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My internet was down for a few days.
I'm here now!
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My internet was down for a few days.
I'm here now!
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Rosie has been back online today, but having only made one post can possibly not use the message system yet.
* post twice more Rosie. A smiley will do
This site's a bit of a mystery to me, but I am here now, is there a message for me?
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Rosie,
Welcome back online and welcome to Rootschat.
Have you been able to re-read all the very interesting posts here?
You sound as if you also have researched her origins too!
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Rosie,
Welcome back online and welcome to Rootschat.
Have you been able to re-read all the very interesting posts here?
You sound as if you also have researched her origins too!
Yes, I have read the entire thread and I hope I have been of some help to the OP by explaining that she was not related to him.
I've been writing her biography since April 2022 and it's nearly finished.
Helena