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E. Broadfoot

Signed family name
Broadfoot
Signed given name
E.
Given address
Belleknowes
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Belleknowes
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Elizabeth McLean was born about 1853 in Scotland, the eldest child of William McLean and Elizabeth Deans.

See 91 Elizabeth McLean

She emigrated to Otago with her family on the Strathallan, arriving in January 1858. They settled in Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin.

Elizabeth married James Broadfoot, an expressman, on February 12th 1875 in Dunedin. They had six children.

When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Harcourt St, Belleknowes, Dunedin.

James died in 1894. He is buried in the Southern Cemetery.

Elizabeth died on June 30th 1925. She is buried with their daughter in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.