SHE HATED SEWING MACHINES.
Mrs Keirnan, who died on July 12, aged 95, was supposed (states the {Sydney Town and Country Journal), to be the oldest native living. She was a native of Prospect, near Parramatta. She was the relict of the late Dr Keirnan, who accompanied as medical superintendent the first ship with emigrants to Australia. Mrs Keirnan retained all her faculties up to the last, and related many amusing and gruesome stories of the olden days when her father, Mr James Warby, used to accompany Governor Macquarrie in his bush travels, and in hunting the aborigines, who were troublesome in those days. The old lady was a great needlewoman. Some of her sewing can be seen up to a few weeks previous to her death, and she took many prizes with her sewing - at bazaars. As for sewing machines, she hated the very sight of them, and ■stated that they were only made for lazy people, and that washing- machines only destroyed the clothes. "With regard to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, if they were all gathered together they would of themselves be able to populate a town.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 11
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189SHE HATED SEWING MACHINES. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 11
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