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141:. He held anti-clerical views, but Abadam converted to Catholicism in 1880. A musical upbringing led her to becoming the organist and choir master at St Mary's Church on Union Street, in the centre of Carmarthen. Abadam met Dr. Alice Vowe Johnson, a social worker and they were companions for the rest of their lives.
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Abadam, by her own account, had a happy childhood and was educated by a governess at
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Llanarthney on the site of her childhood home, the former
Middleton Hall, was unveiled on 24 November 2018 by Abadam's great-niece Margaret Vaughan, who ensures that her family's memories of suffragist Alice Abadam lives on.
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in 1913, she placed a motion at the
Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, that this meeting 'calls upon the Government to extend the Parliamentary franchise to women in the interests of justice, morality and religion.'
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in August 1912, speaking for an hour and quarter, Adadam appealed directly to the
Catholic clergy not to abuse their power by promoting 'indifference and uninformed opposition' to women's suffrage, reported in
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Catholic women to move from local or small charitable works to make join suffrage campaigns to "influence the lives of millions of their poor and unprotected sisters for the good."
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Central Society for Women's Suffrage. She became a well known speaker and she addressed a number of suffrage societies, including a two-week speaking tour around
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dinner for the release of WSPU prisoners in 1906, but had moved away from the militant movement the following year. Abadam was one of the signatories (including, among others
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