Suffragette, Mary Raleigh RICHARDSON, 1882-1961 Canadian family ???

[Lisa in California]

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. 

[*Sandra*]

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

[Lisa in California]

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.

[elliot]

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.

[*Sandra*]

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

[*Sandra*]

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

[elliot]

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

[*Sandra*]

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

[elliot]

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?