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in reply to a message by Raewyn
Thank you! It’s so great to know this. Having been to the UK and finding out my name wasn’t Welsh, I guessed it must have been created in New Zealand as there are so many of us here, but now I know why. Very proud to know I was named after one of the suffragettes
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Unfortunately, so far as I can determine, no such person existed. There are three Mrs Wynns who signed the main petition, none of them named Rae. No Rae Wynn is mentioned as a member of the suffrage movement or National Council for Women, and neither birth, marriage or death records exist for anyone named Rae Wynn. Although the name first appears in the '20s it doesn't become common until a generation later, among the daughters of people born in the mid-1920s, and more than 50 years after the suffrage movement brought women the vote in New Zealand.
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