Object Record
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Metadata
Accession # |
1959.15.5.02 |
Item Name |
Frame Sampler Embroidery Needlework |
Description |
A linen sampler (.01) and a frame (.02). The sampler was made in 1829. The sampler (.01) is embroidered with linen thread in various colours such as red, pink, black, brown, ecru and various shades of green and blue. It is hand embroidered using cross stitches with Algerian eye stitches. The border has a repeated motif on all four sides. On the sampler there are four rows of the alphabet and numerals as well as an inscription that is hard to decipher. A section of the sampler has designs or symbols in cross stitches, satin stitches and Algerian eye stitches. They are of a heart, crowns, birds, flowers and flowers in containers, trees, animals and the initials (JA/ JC/ MMcKC/ DS/ JS/ IC/ MC). Below the design, is another inscription with "Jane Campbell x Aged __ x 1829 KILmk". The frame (.02) is stored separately. |
Date |
1829 EQUALS |
Provenance |
From the written records updated September 30, 1982, "this sampler is believed to be the one donated by Anna Ryde in 1959." Anna is a distant relative of the maker of the sampler, Jane Campbell, who made it in 1829. Jane was born on December 25, 1814, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. She was the eldest daughter of William Campbell (1780-1833) and Jean (Mary) Scott (1791-1874). She was born at her family farmhouse at McNaught, near the head of the Water of Nith, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Her father had at that time two farms, one at McNaught and the other at Braehead. Her grandfather had a farm at Dalgig. Jane married a shepherd, Thomas McCrae (1820- 1892) in Balmaghie Parish, Scotland on March 15, 1842, a few years before coming to Canada in 1849. Shortly after arriving in Canada, Thomas McCrae became a bookkeeper for Robinson and Watts. In 1853, he opened the first lumber yard, in company with David Anderson. By 1855, Thomas went into partnership with John Thompson, purchasing lumber and sawmills in East Flamboro Township. When much of the timber in this district was exhausted, he went into the woollen business under the name of Armstrong McCrae Company, later known as the Guelph Woollen Mills. Thomas and Jane moved their family to Janefield, just west of the Agricultural College in 1863. They lived at Lot 6, Concession 4, and Division G in Guelph Township. Together, they had seven children: William (1842-1844), Col. David McCrae (born in 1845), father of Dr. John McCrae (the author of "In Flanders Fields"), Margaret (1847-1910), wife of Rev. Robert Leask of St. Helens, a daughter (1849-1849), Mareon (1850-1853), William (1853-1930) and Jean (1855-1935), wife of Alexander Matthews. William was married to Jessie Bell Hood (1856-1928) on December 24, 1875. William's son, David Bohn (1882-1931), was married on March 17, 1909 to Jessie McIntosh (1880-1968), a relative of the donor, Anna Ryde. Jane (Campbell) McCrae died on January 10, 1897 in Guelph, at the age of 83. For further information please refer to the gift form binder. For more infromation please refer to the gift form binder or to the vertical family file in the Archives on the "McCrae's of Southern Scotland and Ontario, Canada" (A1999.7.1), pages 14-17. |
Person \ Organization |
Campbell, Jane McCrae, Jane |
Place |
Scotland Guelph |
Creator \ Maker |
Campbell, Jane |