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[ 888NTNW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: National Trust of Australia (NSW)  -  Country/Place Created: Unknown -  Date: Unknown
Quilt History: "The Macarthur quilt has been handed down through four generations of the family of Elizabeth Macarthur's daughter Mary Bowman until, with the death of the last Bowman owner, it was arranged that it had come to the National Trust of..."

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[ 908UB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Una Braby  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "Amelia Brown was born in Devon, England, the daughter of James and Mary Parsons. She married John Brown in 1836 and they came to Sydney in 1857, at the height of the gold rushes, with their 7 children. They settled on a property..."

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[ 933NC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: Mrs Noleen Carthew  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Matilda Hutchinson (born Loader) was the grandmother of the present owner. Matilda and her mother Emma sailed in 1895 on the 'Boniyong' to Freemantle W.A. and thence to the goldfields. Later Matilda and her husband were..."

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[ 958NGA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: SHIPBOARD England -  Date: pre 1850
Story of Quilt: "The fabrication of the Rajah quilt was organised by prison reformer Elizabeth Fry and the 'British Ladies Society for the Reformation of Female Prisoners', who were all members of the Quaker religious order. A woman listed as a free..."

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[ 960NGA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "Mary Ann Brunton (Australia born 1851-Australia died 1930) began making the quilt in 1873, when she was living at Sandhurst near Bendigo, Victoria. Mary Ann was a dressmaker and the fabrics in the centre of the quilt were saved from..."

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[ 965NGA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "Sophia Mary Wilbow nee Payton (Australia 1829-1924, who was born in Pitt Town near Windsor, made this quilt. Sophia married Thomas Mitchell Wilbow in 1846 and spent most of her life in the Hawkesbury River district where her husband..."

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[ 970NGA ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Pictorial
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Mary Jane Hannaford was born in Devonshire, England in 1840. She came to Australia on board the 'London', arriving in Sydney in March 1842. The family moved to Tamworth after the Australian Agricultural Company contracted her..."

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[ 980NGA ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Pictorial, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA TAS -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: " Members of the Hampson family, who lived at 'Fern Bank' near Westbury in northern Tasmania, made this quilt. John and Mary Hampson settled in the area in 1865 and had seven children. As the dates on the quilt show it was made..."

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[ 988SH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin
Owner: The Charles Sturt Memorial Museum Trust inc  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND Cornwall -  Date: pre 1850
Quilt History: "The quilt was made in the house of the Earl of St. Germain on the Cornwall-Devon border in England. It was made circa 1810. It was brought out to the colony of South Australia very early in the pioneering days." [Ron and Kay..."

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[ 1007PH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Pearl Holland  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: " "The name (Martha Washington's Flower Garden) was given to Pearl by Mrs Brent Clarke who was President of Quilters Association in Melbourne at one stage. In the 1920's, Pearl had seen her mother's friend working on a quilt with..."

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