Sampler SUSANNA QUINNELL 1836 Sussex?

[dutchwouter]

l.s.,
SUSANNA QUINNELL was born i think on 17 march 1822. Left below there is a remark i can't read. Who has more information about Susanna and perhaps the house on the sampler? Dimensions of the sampler are appr. 45 x 45 cm. I bought the sampler some while ago in the Netherlands.
with kind regards,
wouter

[Roy G]

I have put a little about her on your previous entry. 
A suggestion for the text in the bottom corner is that it could be her attempt at, "IN DAYS OF YOUTH. "   
But it looks as though she badly planned her spacing and had to squeeze the final 'H' onto the line above.
Roy G

[dutchwouter]

thanks roy, i think you are right, on Dutch samplers there is sometimes also the mention of young girls who should learn to make embroideries in order to become a good housewife in later days

[jann]

Hello,

Susanna Quinnell christened, 3/17/1822 in Plastow/Kirdford is on my family tree, the sister of my great grandfather John Quinnell

 I'm interested in knowing more about the sampler and your linking of it to the Susanna Quinnell of Sussex.  Maybe there's something on the sampler I'm not able to see in the image you posted?

Jann

[dutchwouter]

hello jann,
you mean Plastow/Kirdford is not in Sussex? or her her birthday is in fact her christening date? i found that date in an earlier topic on this site, but that could be wrong (as a dutchman i do not fully understand everything)?
wouter

[Liz_in_Sussex]

Hi wouter,

Plaistow and Kirdford are in West Sussex - on the Surrey border.  I think the confusion was simply because without reading your other thread we don't know where you had got the idea that Susanna had links to this County.

Now that I have read the other thread I see that people have found a suitable candidate for Susanna.  I am still a little puzzled - does the sampler actually have her birthday on it?  I can only see 1836, aged 14?  Does it give her birthday as 17th March somewhere?

Liz 

[jann]

Hi Liz and Wouter,

Where is the other thread? I did a search and only came up with today's commnets.

 I would like to see the original image.

Jann

[Liz_in_Sussex]

  Here you go - it was in the look up requests:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=672763.0

But it still doesn't answer the question of the date of birth ...   

Liz

[jann]

Thanks much, Liz.

Wouter,  I'd be interested in knowing more about the circumstances in which you came upon the sampler.  A flea market?  On-line? I'm wondering how a very common English sampler  made its way the Netherlands.   Would you be able to post a picture that shows the entire sampler?

My Susanna was one of 13 children. The older children were born in Surrey, #s 10-13 were christened in Sussex.  The Quinnells were mostly agricultural laborers.

In re; DOB.  My Susanna and a sister, Charlotte, were christened on 3/17/1822.  It's possible both were born on that date, but I think it more likely that neither one was born on March 17.

I would love for this sampler to have been made by my Susanna. But I doubt I'd ever be 100% sure.

Jann