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- ↑ Christine Collette, For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League, 1906-1918, p.54
- ↑ appears in the 1911 census at 12 Station Road, Ashley Down, Bristol no occupation shown aged 34 living with her husband Walter Ayles.
- ↑ appears in the 1901 Census at 24 Victoria Avenue Stockon on Tees shown as a Socialist Health Lecturer aged 36 with her husband a trade union organiser
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