I have visited Thomas’s grave in Whanganui New Zealand. He was married to Sarah Carroll and later Theresa Clune. Thomas was in the 65th regiment and fought in the Taranaki wars, he died in 1876.
Sarah is buried at Akaroa where they arrived on the ship Maitland.
Thomas and Sarah were my 3x great grandparents and I understand they were from County Kildare in Dublin. I have got as far back as Petris Broe but no further than that. I understand that they were a Catholic family. There were troubles in Whanganui when Thomas’s son John Maitland married into a protestant family the Wallace’s from Antrim in northern island. Arthur Wallace and Thomas Broe were both in the 65th regiment and Thomas’s son John Maitland married Arthur Wallace’s daughter Elizabeth.
There son was Peter Brough who married Annie Ethel Hogg, their son was my grandfather Arthur Charles Brough, married Winifred Mary Munro, their son Desmond Charles Brough is my father, married Jennifer McKenzie my mother.
