{"id":1055,"date":"2012-02-15T22:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/15\/old-nova-scotian-quilts\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T23:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:05:36","slug":"old-nova-scotian-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Old Nova Scotian Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1329372106164\"<\/a>A few years ago at a library sale, I picked up a book called “Old Nova Scotian Quilts. For some reason I was drawn in by the photographs of antique quilts, remeniscing of my maternal grandmother, who spent many of her senior years quilting at the local seniors centre from 9 am – 5 pm as if she were on a timeclock. I still think someday I will take on the opus of making a log cabin quilt or similar. But tonight I found a new level of interest in this book; just read on to the end of the post.<\/p>\n

The other day, my mom sent me three more branches of our family tree. Generally I have been quite obsessed with my dad’s dad’s side, because we grew up on the family farm. I always had a vivid imagination about those ancestors. So this week I have been thinking about all these other people and stories, and tonight I was looking back through my maternal grandmother, Jean Elizabeth (Maynard) Sloan’s roots.<\/p>\n

It was the first week of April, 1774, and 21 year-old George Mennard boarded the ship “Thomas & William” with his wife and child, and sailed from England to Nova Scotia.I found an account of the ship online, which I loved reading about here<\/a>, especially the firsthand account of another passenger on the same ship named Jonathan Barlow.<\/p>\n

They settled in the Cumberland County area until at least the 1820s, before my line moved to Southwestern Ontario. I read more of what the conditions were like in that area in Jonathan Barlow’s account here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of this to bring me back to this quilting book. There are two quilts from about 1810, Cumberland County; the oldest quilt in the Nova Scotia Museum. The person who made it is unknown, but how fun it is for me to imagine, just for a moment, that my own ancestor or one of her neighbours or women she chatted with during the 6-week voyage could have stitched one of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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