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Euphemia Bridges Bowes (''née'' Allen) (1816–1900) was a suffragette and social activist, who campaigned for the temperance movement and helped to raise the age of consent and fight against child prostitution. == Personal life == Euphemia Bridges Allen was born in Edinburgh in 1816 to Joseph and Eliza Allen. She was well-educated for a female in the early 19th century, and was able to read and write. Allen was selected to come to Australia as part of the Bounty Immigrants Scheme (1835-1941), under which new immigrants could be selected for employment by colonists who would pay for their passage. After arriving on 6 December 1838 upon the Fairlie, Euphemia worked as a house servant.〔Radi, Heather (1979). "Bowes, Euphemia Bridges (1816–1900)". ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' 7. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 31 October 2014.〕 Allen married John Bowes, a baker and Wesleyan lay preacher, on 13 September 1842 in Parramatta. In 1848, the family moved to Wollongong where John was accepted into the Wesleyan Ministry. Bowes gave birth to eleven children, with eight surviving into adulthood. After living in various rural townships as part of John's ministerial work, he and Bowes returned to Stanmore in 1880.〔 After the death of John in 1891, Euphemia ran the ladies college that he established in Marrickville. She died on 12 November 1900 and is buried at Rookwood Cemetery, she was survived by three sons and four daughters.〔
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