Do these letters on a sampler mean anything?

[Andrew Tarr]

You will of course know that Debdon Burn is the tributary stream that joins the Coquet river near Thrum Mill.  Still don't know the meaning of the acronym, but the repeated S does suggest a group of relatives.

[alpinecottage]

What else is on the sampler?  I wonder if the letters were added at a later date by say Elizabeth's grand daughter.  Is there anything else on the whole sampler in the same colour thread? 

[Isabel H]

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
Here's the whole sampler, but as you can see, all of the work appears to have been done at the same time.
I can see the TSJSMS as being some sort of religious text or hymn or something of that sort, but SR, separated from the rest, puzzles me.
In 1841 Elizabeth was living with her widowed mother, Ann (her father died in 1839) and brothers at Debdon Burn Foot. There don't seem to be any family members whose names tally with those initials.

I was hoping there might have been standard acronyms used on samplers of the time, but realistically, the letters could mean anything or nothing. They just don't appear random. My Grandmother might have known the story behind it, but sadly I never paid much attention to the sampler until my mother inherited it, and now it is one of many unlikely-to-be-solved mysteries thrown up by my family history research.

[cms]

It's a fine piece of work and you are lucky to have it in your family. I hope you can solve the mystery.

[John915]

Good morning,

This Sampler Just Shows My Stitches.

Can't think of anything for SR.

John915

[Isabel H]

Thanks John915,  that's another possibility, and something a child might well have chosen to embroider. Maybe SR could be something like Stitched (at) Rothbury.

It's interesting to get other people's ideas about it, even if there is no definite solution.

A relative has another sampler sewn in 1872 by Elizabeth's daughter, my g grandmother, aged 10, at Rothbury Girls School, and I have just realised that the border on it matches this one. I wonder if she chose to copy it from her mother's sampler, or if it was decided by the school?  There's always something new to wonder about!