Mrs Jane Wicksteed

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Married

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006)

Further Information:

Family information: Mother to Charles Wickstead (see Other Activities) and sister to Harriet Lupton, who also signed the 1866 petition.

Other Suffrage Activities: Jane's son Charles was a manufacturer and a radical Liberal (he was president of the Kettering Liberal Club). Charles was a supporter of votes for women, being active at a local suffrage petition meeting in Kettering in 1880 and appearing on the platform of an NUWSS meeting there in 1912.

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