Nell Kenney

Sarah Ellen Kenney Clarke (1876–1953), known as Nell Kenney or Nellie Kenney, was a British suffragette best known as a sister of prominent suffragists Annie, Jessie, Jenny, and Kitty Kenney.

Life Kenney was born in 1876, in Lees, the third daughter of Horation Nelson and Agnes Kenney who later lived at 71 Redgrave Street, Oldham. She was one of a family of twelve siblings, eleven of whom survived infancy. Nell, like others in her family went to work at a young age in a British cotton mill.

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