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Granny Smith and her Apples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | 'Granny Smith' was born Maria Ann Sherwood in the rural parish of Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, in late 1799. |
 | | At the age of 19, she married Thomas Smith, a farm labourer from the neighbouring parish of Beckley. |
 | | The earliest account of the origin of the Granny Smith appeared in the Farmer and Settler of 25 June 1924, in an article by Herbert Rumsey, a Dundas orchardist and local historian. |
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