Makers: Anna Gibson and Meredith Deegan

Panel number: 427

Petition sheet number: 520

Person honouring: Kate Deegan

Relationship to makers: Great-great-grandmother

Kate Malone was born in Hawera in 1849. Her parents were Irish immigrants, Mary and Daniel Malone.

She married Martin Deegan after his first wife Ellen Gray died. Kate became mother to Martin’s two young sons from his first marriage, John Michael and James Patrick; her son Daniel Martin Joseph was born in 1888.

Martin and Kate managed the Alton Hotel in Taranaki.

Kate was 79 when she died in 1928.

Panel materials: Mix of my own materials plus ribbon and embroidery thread supplied by Vinnies Re Sew.