Dr. Abushady and Annie (with Fahmy) in Benson, Oxfordshire (ca.1922). Photo courtesy of David and Peggy Sidebottom, Toronto, ONT and the Abushady Archive.
Dr. A.Z. Abushady's wife Annie (née Bamford; 1885-1946) was an independent-minded globetrotter and self-described freemason. Her branch of the family of Stalybridge cotton weavers was descended from Samuel Bamford, the renowned 19th-century labor organizer and author of Passages in the Life of a Radical. Together, Annie and Zaky introduced innovations to agricultural and beekeeping practices in England (1919-1922) and in Egypt (1922-1946).