Sarah Ann Hopcroftson

Career Artist / Manufacturer

Biography Information from letter from donor: 'Sarah Ann Hickman was born at Stoke Under Lynne near Bicester 1834. Her father was clerk at the parish church. She commenced being taught at the making of lace at six years old at a dames school in the parish. In the evenings they worked by candle, with glass bowl reflector. At 19 years of age she married William Hopcroftson at Straw [? semilegible] Hall, near Fritwell, and lived in that parish until her 85th year.' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/02/2007]

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1947

Dates active 1834-circa 1919

Donated around 1947

English collections Lace-bobbin winder

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 1

Connections Violet Cecil Murray