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Offline eevee

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1911 did women make a stand?
« on: Saturday 14 March 15 08:17 GMT (UK) »
I have be lead to believe that women refused to be recorded on census night 1911 as a protest to not having the vote by being 'out' when the recorders came round. Has anyone else have anything to substantiate this. It will explain why my female relatives were missing from the records.
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Boylan,Budd,Hartill,Dibble,Buchanan, Abbot,Harper
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Re: 1911 did women make a stand?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 14 March 15 08:56 GMT (UK) »
thankyou. I did not know about this so I will stop wondering why my relatives are not on the list.
Boylan,Budd,Hartill,Dibble,Buchanan, Abbot,Harper
Webb (actor from 1861 in england),

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Re: 1911 did women make a stand?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 14 March 15 16:37 GMT (UK) »
What a fascinating document! None of "my" known females seem to have been missing in 1911, and I must admit I'd not realised it could be more than a handful actually boycotting the census. Thank you - yet again I've learned something via RootsForum.
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Re: 1911 did women make a stand?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 14 March 15 16:57 GMT (UK) »
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=280083.msg1636543#msg1636543

Put it into the search box lots of pages  on suffragettes and the 1911 census.
AREA, Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire. Staffordshire. Leicestershire, Morayshire.
Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley

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Re: 1911 did women make a stand?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 March 15 21:49 GMT (UK) »
Some interesting thoughts here on the TNA blog:
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/missing-from-the-census/
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: 1911 did women make a stand?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 17 March 15 10:59 GMT (UK) »
wish I spotted this while studying my degree will read and research this.