‘ROSALINE PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE SUFFRAGETTES’ FIGHT’

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When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison stepped out in front of George V’s horse at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913, she guaranteed her place in the history books alongside the likes of the Pankhursts, Sophia Duleep Singh and Millicent Fawcett. But what about the unsung heroes who toiled away behind the scenes and played their own roles in the fight for women’s votes – women such as Anne Padfield’s relation Rosaline McCheyne?

Anne, who was born and brought up in Essex and whose maiden name is McCheyne, began researching her ancestors when she was a teenager. “All four of my grandparents came here from Scotland as children. At the end of the 19th century, there was a huge slump in arable farming in Essex. One of the