Martinborough’s Suffragette’s 

Twenty five Martinborough women signed the petition for the right to vote presented to parliament in —-. There are some names of members of pioneering families whose families are still in living Martinborough. 

The Martinborough page of the petition lists:  E.A Bayliss, Ann Begust, Elizabeth Bowden, Sarah Coot, Elizabeth Dalton, MaryAnn Fox, M Gallie, P Greenaway, Jane Harrison, Mary Harrison, C Kerr, J J Lynburn, Annie Martin, Jessie McLeod, Agnes Meek,  Georgina Oliver, Catharine Parish, Isabella Pearson, Eliza Ross, Harriet Rouse, Margaret Soughton, Margaret Spealsman, Catherine Taylor,  Hester Wall, S E Williams. 

The 1891 census listed Martinborough as having one hundred and seventy women residents, the twenty five who signed were only a small portion of the town’s women .