Alice Hickey's Sewing Machine

"After my Great Grandfather Gunner Tom Hickey was killed November 23rd in the great war of 1916, my Great Grandmother Alice Hickey had to find a way to raise her two young girls, so she went and bought this sewing machine on HP she paid it off in 1917 and I have the original paperwork and the cert of ownership too. Alice took on work turning the collars of the soldiers shirts in Collins barracks in Cork City. Alice Hickey lived in Adelaide Street and her youngest daughter Alice was my Dads mother, the machine was passed to her daughter Alice, then to her grand daughter Breda and now to me her great grand daughter Alice Carol. This machine kept the wolf from the door in 1916, Alice did what it took to take care of her family and keeping this sewing machine honours this resourceful extraordinary women we have all come from. Alice Carol Roche"