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| Mrs TURNBULLS HINDOO ORPHAN GIRLS SCHOOL MIDRAS 1841 by CHARLOTTE |
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Mrs Turnbill was the wife of the Reverend Gilbert Turnbill who worked at the London Missionary society station in Bangalore. In Dec.1838 Gilbert was ailing and they both travelled to Sydney Australia, to recover, unfortunately he died in route aged just "9. On his death bed he enjoined Mrs Turnbull to promote the "salvation" of the precious souls of the poor degraded Hindoo's. Mrs Turnbull returned to Madras instead and took over a school founded by the recently deceased Mrs Drew and took it upon herself to care for the 25 boarders. She first had to learn Tamil in Bangalore. Samplers were an active way of teaching both the Bible and English with the verse being stitched in both languages .
The sampler is signed Charlotte, probably a given name of a Indian Hindoo girl. |
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