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Friday, May 18, 2012

Mary Curry (nee Tierney) 1887-1977

When I looked at the date today some random memories came to me of a small white-haired elderly lady. 

She used  to sing Irish songs and Catholic hymns with me, make sure that I knelt beside my bed to say my prayers, bought me many bags of caramel sweets and fed me egg-flips, corned beef and mashed potato and roast dinners. She grew up in Dungog, NSW and was living in Canowindra when she hooked up with my grandfather Thomas William Curry. I wonder why she moved from one small country town to another in the early 1900s but I guess I will never know.

My Nanna, Mary Curry (nee Tierney), would have been 125 today.

Mary Tierney c 1888
Mary Tierney 1973
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2 comments:

  1. Shelley CrawfordMay 18, 2012 at 10:46 PM

    What lovely pictures to have. You never know, maybe one day you will find something that explains the move.

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  2. AnonymousMay 21, 2012 at 1:30 AM

    Happy 125th Birthday Mary Tierney. Corned beef & mash, roast dinners and caramels... yum

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