Originally transcribed as B McMitchie
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Blanche Marian Marguerite Ivens was born in 1861 in London – the daughter of Edgar Ivens, a bank agent/accountant, and Eugenie Veronique Adolphine de Vils. (See 100 Eugenie Ivens)
Her family lived in New Zealand and Melbourne before settling in New Zealand.
She married James Ross Mitchell, a farmer, at St Mark’s Church, Balclutha, South Otago, on 6 January 1886.
They had six children and when Blanche signed the suffrage petition they were living in Clydevale, South Otago.
James died in Balclutha in 1924 and Blanche died in Dunedin on 6 December 1938. They are buried together in the Balclutha Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz