Irish born Myra Farrell lived in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, at 27 Prince Albert Street. She was an eccentric genius, credited with some thirty inventions. Many had a domestic application; including stitchless buttons, boneless corsets, and a folding clothes line that could accommodate 280 ft of
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Hello, Editor Des here! Well Pauline was going to do some research at the State Library in Sydney so I went along too. I thought I might start trying to find my ancestors. Just hope I don’t turn out to be related to Paddington or Pooh…especially Paddington.
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My maternal grandparents James and Nora Larcombe raised a large family on a sheep farm at Reedy Marsh, seven miles from the small town of Deloraine in northern Tasmania. The pair married in the tiny Anglican church at nearby Exton just before WWI. For some reason Archdeacon
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