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In organising an upcoming exhibition on Kent samplers and education of girls through their samplers. I'm putting on next month in aide of our local church I have revisited a number of my "girls" including this striking pair.
Produced as a tribute of gratitude "to our kind Patroness Lady Fflokes". by Hannah Codling & Elizabeth Bone 1855. so who were they ?.
Fanny Louisa Ffolkes was the daughter of Sir William John Henry Browne Fflokes 2nd Baronet of Hillington Hall Norfolk. Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Norfolk etc.. As early as 1845, in William Whit's History, Gazette and directory of Norfolk it was recorded that Lady Fflolkes paid for the education of the poor girls and some boys of the village. (All very Downton Abbey). She was born 1838 and died 1922 living a life of comfort at the recently rebuilt Hillington hall. (The original Hillington Hall was built in 1624. Between 1824 to 1830 it was incorporated into a new hall designed by W.J. Donthorne. It was demolished in the 1940s).
So who were our "Poor" girls. Both were the daughters of Agricultural Labour's Elizabeth the daughter of Rebecca & George, became a dress maker; Hannah Codling parentes were Judith Rix and John was born 13 years later in 1848 (so not at school together) married William Thomas Wrightson a farmer from Stokesley in Yorkshire some 180 miles away.
So on the needlework side of things, two new Norfolk girls producing samplers of a unique style at a previously unknown School !. |
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