Shawl belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893

Quaker Collection, Walker - Sarah Benson (1812) Shawl belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893. University of Tasmania Library, Special & Rare Material Collections. (Unpublished)

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Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1934. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washinton Walker, despite once referring to him and James Backhouse as those 'pesky Quakers'. Sarah had ten children and served on Jane's Franklin's visiting committee to the Cascades Female Factory, and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings. Photograph titled Sarah Benson Walker's shawl - is Sarah's shawl (held by Society of Friends' Meeting House Collection). Biographical Text Source: Quaker Life in Tasmania: The First Hundred Years. Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania Library, 2007, p. 19.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	This material is subject to copyright protection. Further dealings with this material may be a copyright infringement. Photographs of items held by Society of Friends' Meeting House Collection taken by Gillian Ward.
Keywords:	Sarah Benson Walker, George Washington Walker, shawl, Quaker, costume, Religious Society of Friends, Van Diemen's Land, VDL, Tasmania, Australia
Subjects:	440000 Philosophy and Religion > 440200 Religion and Religious Traditions 430000 History and Archaeology > 430100 Historical Studies
Collections:	Quaker Collection Photograph Collection
ID Code:	1626
Deposited By:	UTas Digital Archives Librarian
Deposited On:	20 Aug 2007
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2008 15:54
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