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Findlay, Jessie (Socialist Sunday School teacher and Labour Party activist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1898 - 1989

Biography

Jessie Findlay, née Macmillan (1898-1989), was a Socialist Sunday School teacher and Labour Party activist. Born in Glasgow and educated at Napiershall Street School, Findlay became involved in the labour movement when she left formal education at 15 and began working in retail outlets in the city. She took part in both the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915 and the Black Friday protests of January 1919. She attended the Socialist Sunday School as a pupil and later became a teacher herself. She married in 1922 and raised four children with her husband Charles Findlay, a police constable. She took up her activism again in 1951 when she joined the Co-operative Society, the Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild, and the Labour Party in Glasgow. She was awarded the Certificate of Merit for outstanding voluntary service to the Labour Party in 1979. [Source: Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, 2006]

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Jessie Findlay Collection, circa 2003-2006.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/13
Scope and Contents Collection contains one folder of papers concerning WGML librarian Audrey Canning's biographical profile of Jessie Findlay.Folder contains manuscript and typescript drafts of the profile Canning produced on Findlay for the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women in 2006, with additional handwritten notes. Also present are reproduced images of Findlay as a young woman and in her later life, alongside original and reproduced press cuttings and articles on her life and work....
Dates: circa 2003-2006.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive. / William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive Special Collections. / Collections of or concerning individuals.

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