My gran.. the working class

as long as the WSPU women want me.” She was released after a week in solitary. The Mirror’s headline was: “Baby Suffragette Goes Home.” She said: “Don’t call me Baby Suffragette. I am not a baby.” Her notoriety must have had an impact.

Kerrie said: “Life was not easy for them in Huddersfield. The magistrate implied she should make a new start elsewhere.” Dora arrived in Melbourne on October 9, 1912, with her elder sister Evelyn. Kerrie continued: “She got work as a blanket weaver and met my grandfather Jack Dow, a horse trainer.”

The couple married in 1918, when they were both 28, and had two children, Mable, in 1919, and Jack, who was Kerrie’s father, in 1923.

There followed 10 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

Dora died peacefully in her sleep aged 86. Kerrie said: “Her last words to me were, ‘Go and make yourself a cup of tea love,’ in her still broad Yorkshire accent.”

Grandson Chris, 55, recalled: “Once Dad declared he was going to vote Conservative and Nanna said, ‘Jacky, to

Without women like her we wouldn’t have the rights we have today... we’re very proud GRANDDAUGHTER KERRIE BARTHOLOMEW, IN MELBOURNE