Ann Mary Edwards, the eldest daughter of George and Ann Edwards, was born on 10/5/1847 in Gravesend, Kent. She married Eusebio Finco, an Italian engineer, on 1/1/1877 in Vienna. He died in April 1878 in Rome after a fracture to his left leg caused by an accident with a horse. She married Dr James Mullin in 1881. Their two children were Gladys Mullin and Justin Mullin. She was a Liberal councillor in Roath, Cardiff and was president of the Cardiff Board of Guardians. The article below describes some of her local activities. She died on 27/1/1921 in Cardiff.

The following is an extract from an article written for the Western Mail on 26/2/2018:

Annie Mullin was a Liberal councillor in Roath, Cardiff, and suffragist. She is described by historian Ursula Masson as having put “women before party”. Annie was a member of the Women’s Liberal Association and was ward secretary for Cathays and Cardiff vice president between 1898 and 1901. She was an active social worker and was a founder member for the Cardiff Women’s Local Government Association.

When she stood for Roath in February 1898, her platform was for “greater humanity” in the care of the poor. Her stance was founded, it is said, by time she had spent on the continent. In 1910, she stood on the platform at the Cardiff conference of Welsh Liberal women and voted to boycott any candidates who were anti-suffrage.

Her name is recorded as treasurer of the suffragist Cardiff Progressive Liberal Women’s Union and in the Cardiff and District Women’s Suffrage Society. Her great, great, granddaughter is Elizabeth Clark. Elizabeth herself has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in the city. “She got involved with the suffragist movement and also encouraged other people to get involved in politics. Her stance to boycott anti-suffrage candidates was no doubt controversial,” said Elizabeth.

The family also know that she had the ear of those in power. Keir Hardie and Philip Snowden were guests at her Pontcanna home. “How she got that access, I don’t know,” said Elizabeth. Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell was another guest to the house.

Elizabeth only discovered her great great grandmother’s role in suffrage with the publication of a new book about the history of Cathays Cemetery, where Annie is buried. “I didn’t know this until recently. 
“Her husband is someone we’ve all been proud of, but this was new.
“Although I didn’t know until recently, somehow it came through the ether because my great-grandmother – her daughter – she was encourage to go to university and she received a double first class honours.
“Her legacy has spread through my family.
“I feel particularly proud of her. How she pulled it off, I don’t know.
“She stood up for her beliefs for women’s rights against her political party and she wouldn’t compromise.“She knew that women just had to have the vote and at the same time was cultivating these relationships to spread that message”.
She is particularly proud of the impact Annie had on her granddaughters. Eileen Clark was a Japanese code breaker at Bletchley Park during WW2 and Sybil Clark was a British and Commonwealth representative of the Italian film industry.