ROSE EMMA DOLTON Ref: 129.

Rose Emma was the daughter of Henry and Emma Dolton (Refs: 4909 & 5477). She was born in 1866 in Newbury. Rose Emma never married.

She lived with her parents and siblings in the Wharf area of Newbury, including Kendrick House, as her father, Henry (Ref 4909), was a successful Corn Merchant.

After her parents had died, she and her unmarried sister, Edith (Ref 2503), moved to ‘Winchcombe’ in St John’s Road, Newbury.

The Newbury Weekly News has several articles showing that Rose Emma was involved in local politics following the passing of the Qualification of Women Bill in 1907. This clarified the right for certain women ratepayers to be elected to Borough and County Councils.

Rose Emma died on 3 April 1922 at 2, Bathwick Terrace, Bath where she must have been visiting as her home address was still ‘Winchcombe’ in the Probate notice. She left £4,370 1s 1d.

She was buried on 7 April 1922.

Rose Dolton was a pioneer of the womens movement, a leader in the British Temperance Movement, on the Board of Guardians of the Workhouse making radical changes, a circuit Stewad for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, a Soprano and a very staunch Passive Resister refusing to pay taxes towards the Education act.

She with Miss Talbot and Miss Henry boarded children out did away with pauper nursing and put the Infirmary in decent order. They did not "damn the woman who came to the board with her love child". Only female circuit steward of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and staunch member of the temperence movement. Newbury women's Liberal Association.

SEE THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE PASSIVE RESISTERS PLAY ON THIS WEBSITE

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