The Great Western Road illustrated by Frank Walker FRAHS

The Greet Western Road
.THIRTY-FIVE DESCENDANTS
Mrs. Cane is one o£ the few aged residents
of the Nepean Plains who is not a native. She
was born In London, and, w ith h er husband
and three children, cam e to A ustralia in 1857.
Their arrival was about a w eek a fte r the |
lived in the one house iu H igh Street, n ear
the Nepean R iver, ever since. H er husband
died 16 years back, at the age o f 80, but the
three children still survive. The eldest o f
these, Mrs. Haynes, o f L em on grove, has ju st
com pleted “ the allotted 8pan,, o f th ree-score
MRS. EDWARD CANE, THE OLDEST RESIDENT OF PENRITH.
The old lady, w ho is 93 years o f age, rem arked to the cam era man that he w as
“ pretty qu ick " in photographing her, and added: “ T here w ere no jfhotographs in
my day. W e had to s it dow n w hile they painted ou r likeness.”
wreck of the Dunbar, and tw o of the children
secured som e relics from the w reckage, one or
two of which are still in the p ossession o f the
fam ily. A lm ost im m ediately after reaching
Sydney the Canes found their way t o Penrith,
and, up till about 12 m onths ago, Mrs. Cane had
years and ten, w hile the tw o oth ers—Mr. E d­
ward Cane, o f N orth Sydney, and Mrs. Jam es
Baker, o f Penrith— are 66 and 63 yeare o f age
respectively. There are also 13 g ran d -ch ild -
ren and 19 great-grand-child ren , o r 35 d escen ­
dants in all. Am ongst the gran d -ch ild ren is
Mr. E. G. Baker, G overnm ent P rin ter a t P o rt