Doir Jen Merah

Doir Jen Merah; born 17.X.1621 (Kingsgate, Suthergold). Daughter of Calam Jor Merah and Siobhan Levy. Her parents were of genteel but undistinguished stock, acquainted with the Everstone family circle by virtue of service owed to the Ryker Everstone during his first reign as Duke of Goldshire. Their tenure at court in Goldshire Hamlet ended abruptly in early 1621, whereupon they returned to Suthergold and were wed shortly before Siobhan came to term with the daughter they would name Doir.

As a child and young adult Doir's educational attainment was unremarkable, she was however distinguished by her sporting prowess, robust physicality, a certain poise or hauteur, and a distinctly brusque manner towards the lower classes. She achieved some small measure of notoriety as a polo player at the county level. It is not entirely clear which of these attributes subsequently equipped her for a career as a governess, yet this was to be her first recorded salaried position as a woman of independent means when in 1640, at the age of 19, she was appointed as tutor and guardian to a trio of daughters belonging to a Vanic complex marriage community in Wintergleam. The records of her tenure, indeed the identities of her employers, were lost in the upheavals of the Auspicious Occasion in 1651, yet it is apparent that, by 1645, she had entered the employment rolls of the Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust in the service of Eliza Carstens, and that it was that connection by which she secured an introduction to Isabella Simrani-Kalirion and thereby at the age of 26 in 1647 secured the position of governess for the young Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion, who was 11 years old at the time.