From the records of travel, one can see Mary moved across the Americas. Born in Nova Scotia, she appears in the United States Census of 1920 studying nursing in the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston having come from New Brunswick, Canada, in 1927 on a Manifest List of Alien Passengers entering New York aboard the ship Toloa, last permanent residence Havana, Cuba. She is recorded in the United States Census of 1930 as a roomer in the Bronx, New York and later in 1961 immigrating from Montreal, Canada, widowed , to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Burial Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQS-NYVY), Mary Boomer, 1920; citing M1464, Soundex Index to Canadian Border Entries through the St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1924, 395, NARA microfilm publications M1461, M1463, M1464, and M1465 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, publication year); FHL microfilm 1,561,481.
"United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2LY-K4D), Mary Boomer, Apr 1920; from "Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1954," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing Ship , arrival port St John, New Brunswick,, line 23, NARA microfilm publication M1464, roll 395, NARA record group 85, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFM6-HLR), Marie E Bulmer, Boston Ward 5, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 2B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,730.
"New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXLP-6ZK ), Elizabeth Bulmer, 1927; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNGB-92V ), Mary Elizabeth Ross, Immigration; citing 1961, Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (National Archives, Rio de Janeiro).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary: