[2] Nell, like others in her family went to work at a young age in a British cotton mill.

[3] Her mother died at the age of fifty-three in January 1905, and left Nell's younger sister Annie in charge of the six siblings and father (who had nursed his wife in her last illness).

[1] Her sisters Jenny (Jane) and Caroline (Kitty) became Montessori teachers as well as suffragettes and emigrated to the USA in 1916.

[5] Annie's arboretum was established by the Blathwayt family where recovering suffragettes could stay and plant a commemorative tree.

She also organized Women's Social and Political Union activities in the West Midlands.