Talk:Helen Storrow

Agnes or Olave Baden-Powell

Are you sure you don't mean Olave not Agnes. Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, as Chief Guide could hand out Silver Fish, Agnes I don't think could (except in very early Guiding when it was the top youth award not an award for outstanding service). From what I've read Agnes was pushed (and pushed does seem to be the word) to the sidelines of Guiding/Scouting in the late teens. --Erp (talk) 14:49, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, the Girl Scout's website refers to the woman who awarded her the Silver Fish as "Lady Baden-Powell", so that must be Olave, not Agnes. I'll correct the article. I apologize for confusing the two, but the history of scouting is not my area of expertise, and I had a bit of difficulty keeping the two Baden-Powells straight. My interest in the Storrows stems from Helen's connection to the abolitionist movement, and her involvement in settlement work. Thank you for alerting me to my error. Historybuff2283 (talk) 01:28, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

No trouble, some scouts do too. I'll try doing some of the scouting checking. She seems an interesting person. --Erp (talk) 06:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, she does seem to have been a very interesting woman, from a long line of interesting women.Historybuff2283 (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Name to use

It is tricky to decide when to use what name given that many women did change their names at least once in their lifetimes (upon marriage(s)). I took a brief look at Elizabeth Fry born Gurney and Emma Darwin born Wedgwood. Both are from prominent families but are best known by their married names. Both articles try avoiding the married name before marriage (leading in one case to 'she' being perhaps overused and the other just her first name). It is much rarer for men to change their names, off-hand there are several in the Tichborne Case (the case dealt with an inheritance, one condition of which required one Tichborne to become Doughty and several others to become Doughty-Tichborne, not to mention an impostor who claimed to be a missing Tichborne heir (though the impostor was referred to by his real name throughout the article not by either of his two adopted names)). The Tichborne Case also uses family trees. You might find a family tree useful in this article. --Erp (talk) 05:12, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Too much info on her husband

I feel this article has too much info on her husband James J. Storrow which is just a repeat of the info in his article (or perhaps should be in his article). This article should concentrate on Helen Storrow so I'm inclined to remove much unless it is clear that it is a joint effort that is being discussed. Erp (talk) 02:28, 27 February 2016 (UTC)