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Description: | Georgian sampler. Done by Ann Marie Peover (the 'i' has been omitted) aged 9, March 18th, 1829. Backing fabric is most likely to be linen. Overall design done in cross-stitch. No other stitches detectable. Some colour fade, with some stitches that have come loose through holes in the fabric through exposure to light, damp and impact damage in its past history. The overall design is typical of designs of this period with a a pious verse, a twisting border of flowers and various motifs of embroidered animals, hearts and and flowers. Interestingly, a a time when samplers were an important part of a girl's education (that being mostly needlework) there are no embroidered numbers or letters. The religious verse however, is a typical example of Georgian society's attitude to women's place - chaste, obedient and silent and answerable only to God, suggested also by the worked building which might suggest a religious shrine to God, and also denoted in the crown on the lion's head - often a sign of eternity and fidelity, in the pink daisy-like flowers suggesting humility, and the white lilies that usually suggest purity and innocence.The surname 'Peover' is most probably associated with the village of Little Peover in Cheshire which suggests that her family may have been fairly high up in the social order at some point in the past when families owning land gave their names to it (or vice versa). There is no trace of her birth entry in parish records although an entry for July 28th, 1816 for an Ellen, daughter of Frederic and Ann Peover from Hanley (one and a half miles away) may suggest a relative - a younger sister or niece perhaps.The place name on the sampler of Bucknall or Bucknall-cum-Bagnall formed part of a district rectory following an Act of Parliament passed in 1807 entitled 'An Act for separating the Chapelries and Chapels of N-U-Lyme, Burslem, Whitmore, Bucknall-cum-Bagnall and Norton-in-the-Moors from the Rectory and Parish Church of Stoke-upon-Trent, and for making them five district rectories'. They made up about 4200 acres of land, extending from 1 to 4 miles E & NE of Hanley. The population of Bucknall in 1831 was 1161. There is also another Bucknall in Norfolk, but considering the evidence displayed, it is most likely that she came from the Staffordshire one.
Sampler of a framed embriodered prayer surrounded by pictures. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Miscellaneous Historical Objects shapes, colour, pattern and line Georgian period | Temporal: | 1829
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Peover; Ann Marie | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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