Clodd, Miss Mary, St Agnes, 37 Bitton Street, Teignmouth Mary Clodd (1835 – 1923)[1] was born on 15 July 1835 in Framlingham, Suffolk, the daughter of George and Martha Clodd. Martha had been born Martha Webb, and was first married in 1811 to Thomas Larner . George Clodd, whom she married in 1831 after Larner’s death,

Holman, Mrs Thyra, Sea View. The Strand, Topsham Although Mrs Thyra Emma Holman (1864 -1942) née Price, was born and lived the first half of her life in Hornsey, London, she had strong connections to Topsham and Devon.[1] Her father, Enoch John Wade Price, was the son of a Dublin merchant, but the Topsham connection

Lucraft, Miss Ann, School House, Union Road, St Thomas, Exeter Ann Martin Lucraft [1](1861 – 1934) was born in Broadclyst, Devon, in June 1861, the daughter of John Newton Lucraft and his wife Ann, née Martin. John Lucraft was a cooper, son of Joseph Lucraft, a Broadclyst dairyman. Ann had three sisters and two brothers;

Mills, Miss Mary, Teendaria, 11 Osney Crescent, Paignton  Mary Madeline Mills[1] (1882 – 1941) was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 11 June 1882 and christened on 2 October  She was the daughter of Henry Nicholas and Ellen Viscina Mills and had one older brother, Ronald. Henry was a bookseller and stationer.

Baker, Miss Nellie, Lummaton, Barton, St Mary Church, Torquay Nellie Baker was born in 1871 in Oxfordshire, as she recorded on the 1911 census.[1] It has not proved possible so far to discover any other information about her background, and Devon History Society would be pleased to hear from anyone who has further information about

Sanford, Misses Alice and Edith, Brookfield, York Road, Exeter Alice[1] (1872 – 1922) and Edith (1879 – 1934) were two of the five daughters of George and Elizabeth Sanford. Alice was born on 9 September 1872, and Edith on 28 Jan 1879. George Sanford was a builder, listed in 1881 as employing 25 men. The

Tuker, Miss Mildred, Ashe House, Musbury Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker (1862 – 1954) was born Mildred Tucker on 24.8 1862  in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. Mildred was the daughter of Rosalie du Chemin and Stephen Tucker and was privately educated before studying Moral Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge, 1880 -1883. From 1893 – 1910 she travelled extensively

Hepburn, Miss Olive,  Dunmore, Bradninch Olive Sara Hepburn (1887 – 1957)[1]was born on 22 April 1887, daughter of Henry and Josephine Hepburn. Henry was described as a papermaker. The family had only recently moved from Broadclyst where Olive’s older siblings John, Alice, Helen and Maurice where born, to Bradninch where Olive was born and where they

Newby, Mrs Kathleen Marie Anstice du Sautoy, St Mary’s, 14 Broad Park Avenue, Ilfracombe Kathleen Marie Anstice du Sautoy (1880 – 1962) was born in Bromley, Kent. Shortly afterwards her father, Frederick du Sautoy, a clergyman, moved the family to Penzance. She married in 1902 to Charles Henry Newby, FRCS, LRCP, (1849-1928) a respected surgeon

Allen, Miss, South View, Teignmouth Miss Allen of South View, Teignmouth, is mentioned in Common Cause as the secretary to the Teignmouth and district branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) when it was formed at the end of 1909.[1] The report mentions that Miss Allen had ‘worked hard in preparing the