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This doesn't explain the origin of the name Raewyn, or the story it is related to the suffrage movement. Prior to 1919 there don't appear to be any Raewyns born with the name. There is a woman born 1927 who went by Raewyn when she died in 1967 (I believe she was murdered and these details were in the newspapers), there are numerous other Raewyns mentioned in various records (not official BDM records which were still closed to public searches) in the 1960s, but we don't know how old they are. Elizabeth Ray Wynn doesn't seem to have been much of a public figure. and although she married Wynn in 1924, it doesn't seem she was widely known as Ray Wynn when ahe's mentioned in relation to the women's movement in the 1930s (concerned with subsidies and proper training for domestic help - how times change). Family members later seem to refer to her as Ray Wynn, but by then Raewyn seems to have been already in use.

Raewyn as a name appears in the '20s, before Anna Ray Wynn is born. It doesn't take off until the next generation though.