Historical information

Sister Martha (Florence Gertrude Edwards) was Kindergarten Superintendent at the Carlton Methodist Mission. She married the Reverend George Fielding Dyson in 1936 after the death of his first wife in 1934. Rev. Dyson's son Fielding George Martin Dyson was killed in a motorcycle accident on 9 April 1936. Two memorial windows for the first Mrs Dyson were installed in the Palmerston Street Methodist Church. Reverend Dyson died in 1956.

Physical description

Square cotton handkerchief with blue edging and children in blue dresses printed around the border. Names have been written against each child.

Inscriptions & markings

"O Florrie dear You are a teaset so here's a rag to wipe your sneezer"