see this post and good luck with the voting.

We all now have an opportunity to vote for a memorial plaque to record Edith’s memory as a pioneer of Jujutsu and a suffragette. Islington Council in London will erect a plaque on one of the houses where she lived if she receives enough votes on http://www.islington.gov.uk/Leisure/heritage/heritage_borough/bor_plaques/default.asp . Edith is one of ten candidates for a plaque and Islington say that the top five will have a plaque. I am sure that many in the jujutsu community will want to vote. Are you able to bring this to their attention, please, Tony. Let me know if you have any trouble voting.

Congratulations, Tony, on making this possible and starting off this move to commemorate Edith by writing your excellent book about her.

I am to meet two of her grand children – Jenny and Sybil tomorrow so I am hopeful that between us we will put together more information about Edith’s early life.

with best wishes

Martin

Could you please publish my e-mail address or even better forward this message (if you would be so kind) to the members of the Garrud family who have posted messages to this site in the last couple of months ? These are Kate Hymans, Jenny Cooper and Sybil Evans, who clearly know quite a bit about Edith’s background. Mary Gould (as narrated by Jenny Cooper above)has correctly identified me as the son of Idris Williams. I have some notes on the history of her family written by Edith in the 1960s which need someone who knew to help me decipher. I would like to show Edith’s notes to some of the family members above so that with the knowledge that I have and an understanding of Edith’s notes, we may be able to piece together her early life and understand what formed her character and made her into the pioneer she became.

Thank you, Tony, for all your help so far. Your telling of Edith’s story has interested several people in the academic world and I think we are moving towards a better appreciation of Edith and her achievements.

Looking forward to hearing from the family

Martin Williams

thanks for making contact.

I’m afraid that my research revealed very little about Edith’s early life, so I can’t help with regards Dan and Isobel. There is a reference to William and Edith’s daughter, whose name I have recorded as Isabel, helping them run their jiujitsu school circa 1911.

I’d very much like to learn when William and Edith separated; with nothing else to go on at the time I wrote the book, I assumed that they were still together at least until 1925.

If any of your family do read the book and can offer additional information or corrections, I’ll be very happy to amend the text in future editions. I can be contacted directly at tonywolf@gmail.com .