Clare’s crowd - her family of 71

Sydney
1 June 2003

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Clare’s crowd - her family of 71

Clare Vella, widowed head of the Vella family, has many talents, one of which is the ability to “make a meal stretch” to feed a crowd.

Is it any wonder, with a family of mini-crowd proportions - eight children, 24 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and one great great-grandson?

Here Clare (centre), 84, is pictured with (from left) granddaughter Lynette Ashworth, 43, daughter Mary, 63, great-granddaughter Sarah Ashworth-Smith, 20, and Sarah’s one-year-old son, Kai.

Clare, a parishioner at Our Lady Queen of Peace, Greystanes, migrated to Australia from Malta in 1939 with husband James and the first three of their children (the others were born here).