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.