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Mary Brooksbank

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Her maiden name was Soutar.
Dates: 
15 Dec 1897-16 Mar 1978.

Mary Brooksbank was born in Aberdeen, one of five children of Alexander Soutar, dock labourer and union activist and Roseann Gillan, domestic servant, fish gutter and mill worker. The family moved to Dundee around 1907. She started work as a "half-timer" aged 11, working as a shifter in a jute mill. She joined the Communist Party in 1920 and led campaigns. She married Ernest Brooksbank in 1924. In 1931 a rally at which she was a speaker was charged by mounted policemen. She was arrested and charged with incitement to riot.

Sources
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Woman Ewan, Innes, Reynolds, Pipes (eds), EUP, 2006.
The entry for Mary Brooksbank is on p45, and was written by Graham Smith.
Dundee Women's Trail book, 2008.
pages 46-48
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