Maker: Bridget Schraders

Panel number: 267

Petition sheet number: 322

Person honouring: A. [Alice] Marten

Relationship to maker: Great-grandmother

Alice Barham was born in Invercargill in March 1868. She married Rev William Benjamin Marten in August 1891 at the Wesleyan Parsonage, Rangiora.

They had three children: Elsie Theodora (1892–1984), Alice Beryl (1895–1958), and William Arnold (1897–1989).

Alice signed the suffrage petition in Blenheim, but by 1925 was a widow who was living in Napier with her daughter.

Alice lived through the 1931 Napier earthquake and William appears to have been involved in the temperance movement – he wrote hymns, hence the seismograph and music notes on the panel.

My father remembers Alice being fond of tatting so I added a piece from her grandmother’s stash.

Alice died in Napier in March 1966 aged 97 and was buried at Taita cemetery, Lower Hutt. Her husband is there too.

Panel materials: Fabrics I already had, or purchased second-hand. Many were inherited from my grandmother. I also used fabric paint for the hand prints.