Quilt No.17DMS - Dubbo Museum & Historical Society Inc
Owned by Susannah Gibbs (1828 -1896) who married Obadiah Hoath and came to Australia in 1856. Their daughter Hannah Maria Hoath (1861 - 1945) gave the quilt to her granddaughter Irene Kilfoyle, who donated the quilt to Dubbo Museum in 1983.
Susannah Gibbs (1828 - 1896) and Obadiah Hoath (1830 - 1878) were married in England and came to Australia in 1856. The quilt came with Susannah. It was stored in a wooden trunk which got wet on the voyage and the quilt still has some water marks from this.
Susannah and Obadiah went to Daylesford and lived there all their lives. Obadiah was a bricklayer. One of their children was Hannah Maria (1861 - 1945) who married Hugh Griffith in 1893. Hannah was a dressmaker. They lived in Victoria until 1912 when they came to Eumungerie (small town near Dubbo) where land was opened up and they had a block until about 1927 when they came into Dubbo.
Hannah was Irene Kilfoyle's grandmother and gave her the quilt. Irene gave the quilt to Dubbo Museum in 1983, together with other items that had belonged to her great grandmother Susannah.
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The centre field is bounded by two strip-pieced borders at top and bottom, and three down each side. These are sewn from rectangles, using light pink/brown tones for the inner border and darker colours for the outer borders. The quilt is padded and backed and the side seams are secured with black herringbone stitch. The three layers are tied together invisibly with lazy daisy stitches in black cotton from the back." [PHM] The padding is a wool blanket and the backing is two pieces of cream twill cotton.
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