Pyrographer who was born in Western Australia. She was the daughter of David Earnshaw, former soldier, farmer and publican and his wife Mary n_e Pomeroy. In February 1871 she married Francis Bird who had arrived in Western Australia in 1869 aboard the Bridgetown. They lived at Woodloes, Cannington where he was in partnership with Benjamin Mason as a timber miller. When he began practising as an architect they moved to Claremont where Maude took up pyrography and made a wooden fire screen now in Strawberry Hill Farm.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
