Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Mitchell was born about 1855 in Scotland.
She married James Broome, a coal miner, on 6 December 1872 in Lanarkshire.
They had three children before they emigrated to Otago on the Canterbury in 1878 and a further six children in New Zealand.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living at Shag Point in North Otago.
By 1896, when their young son John died, they were living at Benhar near Balclutha.
They moved again soon after to Milton then to Kaitangata before they retired to Dunedin.
James died in Dunedin in 1930, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Mary died on 10 September 1934 at her daughter’s home in Dunedin, she is buried with their son in the Balclutha 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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/