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| ELIZABETH LUBBERT 1836 |
£750 |
A very unusual sampler depicting a bouquet of flowers worked in a variety of stitches on a yellow coloured ground, highlighted by the yellow background card.
It would appear Elizabeth had a sad but not uncommon life. Born 1821 in South Hackney London , she married Frederick Warskitt aged 20 in 1849 but died the following year from complications during child birth, their daughter Elizabeth Keziah Warskitt also dieing. But remarkably her life remembered through her beautiful needlework.
Footnote .
FREDERICK WARSKITT was a builder, living at 102 Cannon Street Road, and in 1865 he was granted retrospective planning permission by the Metropolitan Board of Works to erect a counting-house and entrance to his yard there, on condition that it was adapted to conform with his application. Two years previously he was involved in a case over a contested will, Eastman v Dennis. His wife was Martha; their daughter Emma, born here in 1852, married Nathaniel William Hicks from Hackney, and raised four children there. A son Frederick James emigrated to Australia, marrying Emma King at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney in 1881. She taught 'fancy dancing' - see this report of her juvenile class. In 1889 he was riding with a friend Henry Cannon whose horse bucked, causing his fatal drowning. Frederick and Emma were divorced in 1894, on the [standard] grounds of habitual drunkenness, leaving without means of support, and cruelty. Frederick sernior retired to Brigden - Cann Hall Road, Wanstead |
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