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| Pair of samplers by MARY & JANE DURRANT 1864 WISETT SUFFOLK |
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A pair of charming mid Victorian schoolgirl's samplers from the 1860s, neatly worked in pretty colours. These two samplers embroidered by two sisters - Mary Durrant whose sampler was embroidered when she was 14 in 1864 and the other by Jane Durrant, aged 12, in the same year but has removed the year of her work. It was common in small village schools that children of different ages were taught together.
Records show that Mary and Jane (Louisa) were sisters born in Wissett, Suffolk, there Father Horace Jonathan Durrant ((1821-1861) a farmer of 150 Acres. Their mother, who was widowed when these samplers were stitched, worked as a school teacher and the two sisters became her assistant teachers in their teens, and followed there mother's profession ( She became a School Principal), Jane, remaining in Wissett teaching, (probably the reason why Jane removed the date on her sampler), until about 1890 when she moved with her mother to Guilford to be with her sister Mary. Mary died in 1910 aged 60 Jane died in 1936 Aged 94. Both girls remained single.
The samplers retain there original paper backing (see photos.)
The two samplers are in good, undamaged, bright condition and measure about 16 by 14.5 inches (41 by 37 cm.)
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