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Margaret Mary Anderson Pt 2 – Belle of the Lord Mayor’s Ball

In part 2 of Damian Callinan’s chat with his maternal aunt Margaret Anderson [nee Purcell] we learn that apart from wearing blue cloaks to Mass, the Children of Mary were largely ‘useless’; we discover that she still has her 1956 Lord Mayor’s ball gown made by her mother & that her eldest son Mark may have been switched at the Mercy Hospital & raised by ‘another’ Margaret Anderson.

[Recorded in Forest Hill, Victoria on December 7th, 2021]

Margaret in the hammock with her mum May & sister Kathleen
May & Jack Purcell with daughters Margaret & Kathleen
Margaret at her Debutant Ball [dress made by her mum, May Purcell]