Abbots Ann Virgin Crowns

Check out this picture of Maidens Garlands in a church in Hampshire

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36856551@N00/3221336520/

Remember Me

"Remember Me" is finally up and running at Old St Stephens. I have made 48 garlands for virginal girls buried outside the church.Each garland has a unique flower made by me to emphasise their individuality and ribbons, blue hearts and the white paper gloves echo the original garlands. Here are some of them

and here is a list of the girls I made my maidens. The middle column is the age at which they died.

1762 18 Ann STONEHOUSE

1773 20 Mercy STORM

1787 20 Ann MOOR

1772 17 Christian HUNTRODS

1802 14 Mary HUTTON

1804 16 Jane BEDLINGTON

1804 15 Ann HODGSON

1806 16 Jane GRANGER

1811 18 Jane RUSSELL

1816 17 Aly SALTON

1817 21 Grace TODD

1821 16 Hannah SAWDON

1822 11 Margaret MILBURN

1823 21 Nancy TODD

1825 17 Isabella DOBSON

1828 13 Ann MARLEY

1830 18 Hannah BAIKIE

1830 19 Sarah STUBBS

1831 12 Esther BURN

1837 21 Elizabeth MAW

1839 19 Jane KELD

1842 18 Alice BREWSTER

1842 17 Mary Ann PLUNKET

1845 12 Hannah BULMAN

1845 21 Ann HARRISON

1847 13 Sarah Ann MOLLON

1848 20 Elizabeth HARLAND

1853 21 Jane AVERY

1860 20 Janey LEVITT

1862 17 Maey HODGSON

1866 19 Ann DIXON

1866 15 Eliza HARRISON

1870 18 Henrietta BEDLINGTON

1870 14 Fanny COGGIN

1872 17 Mary SPENCE

1881 21 Martha Ann SKELTON

1883 12 Laura MOUG

1883 19 Mary Ann PEACOCK

1883 17 Hannah BARNARD

1883 18 Hannah Jane HUTTON

1890 21 Isabel PEACOCK

1891 21 Elizabeth BULMER

1894 14 Sarah STUBBS

1900 17 Annie KNAGGS

1900 19 Edith HUTTON

White Gloves

White paper gloves were traditionally hung from the centre of Maidens Garlands. I have embellished mine a bit as thats what I do!