Object Record

Metadata

Accession #

1980.9.21

Item Name

Block, Quilt

Description

Cotton, hand-stitched quilt block in "Variable Star" pattern. Colours of green, red, orange and white.

Date

1930-1939 DURING

Provenance

Quilt blocks made by Anne Jane Lane Matheson (1854-1949) in the 1930's. Many of the fabrics are much older. Anne Jane Matheson was taught by her grandmothers, Martha Bidcomb Tarzwell from County Sommerset, England and Ann Jane Ballantyne Lane from Nace Ireland. Ann Jane Ballantyne (1803 - 1892), emigrated with her first husband George Lane from Ireland in 1837. George Lane died in the cholera epidemic of 1837 leaving Ann Jane with 3 children. She settled in Erin Twp. where she taught school on the 9th line near 17th sideroad. Among other subjects, she taught needlework. Anne Lane Matheson married John Matheson in 1874; he died in 1918. They raised ten children and three grandchildren. She is buried in Coninsby Cemetery, Erin Twp. In the 1930s, a Toronto newspaper published quilt patterns. She would handsew quilt blocks and then make quilts from the ones which appealed to her.

Person \ Organization

Matheson, Anne Jane Lane

Place

Erin Twp.

Year Range from

1930

Year Range to

1939

Creator \ Maker