More A Cat Person Than A Dingo Fan

MARIE GREEN was born in Petersham in December 1915. Her mother was Irish and her father's parents Scottish. Her childhood was a Sydney of hansom cabs working from Central, at the time called simply Sydney Station, with nearby Mortuary Station used for mourners and coffins going to Rookwood Cemetery. Her father, a railwayman for 54 years, would take the family on picnics in a hired horse and sulky.