Person:Rhoda Sayer (1)

1838 - Rhoda was born and baptised after the death of her father. Baptism: Rhoda, daughter of Thomas & Sarah Ann SARE, North Lopham, late Tailor.

1841 - With her widowed mother and brother, John, in North Lopham, in the household of her maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth WOMACK. Family name recorded as SARE.

1851 - With mother and step-father, living in Chapel Street, Rockland St Peter. Aged 12, born at North Lopham, Norfolk. Family name recorded as SAYER.

1859 - Surname recorded as SAYER on marriage registration.

1861 - Living in High Street, Chipping Ongar with husband (no children). Aged 23, born at Lopham, Norfolk.

1871 - Living in High Street, Chipping Ongar with husband and five children. Aged 32, born at Lopham, Norfolk.

1881 - Living in High Street, Chipping Ongar with husband and seven children. Aged 43, born at Lopham, Norfolk.

1891 - Living in High Street, Chipping Ongar, with husband and two sons. Aged 53, born at North Lopham, Norfolk.

1901 - Living in High Street, Chipping Ongar. She is recorded as the married head of household, with two sons and four boarders. Boarding house keeper, working on her own account. Husband is in Brandon, Suffolk. Evidence from his entry, that he is a "widower", working from home at his lodgings, suggests that they were now living separately. Aged 62, born at Lopham, Norfolk.