Maker: Deb Cairns

Panel number: 449

Petition sheet number: Did not sign 1893 petition

Person honouring: Anna Jemima Cairns

Relationship to maker: Grandmother

Born in 1899, Anna Williams travelled alone to New Zealand from Ireland as a young woman in search of a better life.

She met my grandfather and they farmed on the Banks Peninsula, living in Duvauchelle and farming at Le Bons Bay.

Anna died in 1987.

Panel materials: Some Irish linen I had lying around, and some embroidery thread.