Originally transcribed as Bessie Recoman
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Bessie Palmer was born about 1860.
She married Henry George Newman, a fishmonger, on 15 September 1884 in St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands.
They came to New Zealand and had four children.
When Bessie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Bluff.
Henry died in 1898 and, in 1899, Bessie was charged with selling liquor without a licence at her oyster saloon.
She travelled to Australia and she married Axel Bobert, a mariner from Sweden, in 1900.
They returned to Bluff where their son was born before moving to Dunedin in 1910.
Axel died in Dunedin in 1910, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Bessie returned to Bluff where she died on 29 April 1934, she is buried in the Bluff Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
Jerripedia http://search.jerripediabmd.net/