Alice Hawkins refused to provide her address to census officials but her former home has been found.
Alice Hawkins led the suffragette movement in Leicester and was jailed five times for her effortsA suffragette is to be commemorated on International Women's Day with a blue plaque on the house where she lived.Many suffragettes, including Ms Hawkins, refused to provide their addresses to census officials, but a postcard owned by her descendants gave the address.
The postcard was sent to her by Leeds suffragette Mary Gawthorpe on 11 June 1907 and provided valuable information on where Ms Hawkins lived. Mr Barratt said: "To see a plaque unveiled on the very house where Alice and family, including our grandfather, lived over 100 years ago will be a very touching moment for myself and all her descendants who will be with me on the day."
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