Parker's Yard, Chesterfield, Derbys.
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Parker's Yard, Chesterfield, Derbys.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 22 Nov 2014
This passageway empties out onto Holywell Street (the B6543 road). Although now a dead end, the house where Emma Miller née Holmes was born was previously situated in this yard. Miller (1839-1917) was a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist, women's rights activist, labour activist and a key figure in organisations that engineered the founding of the Labour Party in Queensland, Australia. She married her first husband at Chesterfield Register Office but they later moved to Manchester. After becoming widowed she married William Calderwood in 1874 in Salford and they moved to Brisbane in 1879. Following the death of her second husband she married Andrew Miller, a widower in 1886 in Brisbane. In 1890, as a shirt-maker, she helped to form a female workers' union and continuing her woman’s rights ‘career’ on this continent. She died at Toowoomba in 1917.
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Image Location
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53.23752
Longitude
-1.424321