Person:Sarah Blake (27)

Sarah Blake was born about 1815, either at Newport or Wootton, Isle of Wight (they are not far from each other). In 1835 she was living in the village of Nursling, where she married Charles Young, a blacksmith, labourer and edge tool maker, on 7 Jun 1835. Shortly after, on 5 Jul 1835, their first child, Frances, was baptised in Nursling. In 1837 their first son Charles was christened in Millbrook - he probably died young as he doesn't appear with the family on the 1841 Census. In 1840 another son, William Charles, was born in Holborn, London. In the 1841 census the family of four were living in Crop Street, St. Martin in the Fields, London.

Four more sons were born to Sarah and Charles and baptised at All Saints Church, Poplar, George b. 1842, Henry b. 1844, Robert b. 1847 and Edward James b. 1849. In 1851 the family of eight were living at 2 Tavern Row, Bromley, with Charles working as a blacksmith and daughter Frances working as a servant.

One more daughter, Sarah Anne, was born and baptised at All Saints in 1855. In the 1861 census the family were living at 2 Watton's Court, Poplar, with Charles and son George working as labourers.

Charles Young died 29 Aug 1867 in Poplar Hospital, from "violent shock from injuries", perhaps related to his work as an edge tool maker. An inquest was held on 31 Aug 1867 by coroner for Middlesex John Humphreys. (Perhaps records of the inquest are available somewhere?) He was buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery. The family suffered another tragedy the following year when son Henry Young died at the age of 23 from "sudden ulceration perforation of the bowels".

In the 1871 census Sarah and her daughter Sarah Anne were living at 25 Woolmore St, Poplar, and Sarah Sr. was working as a nurse. Sarah Anne married in 1872, and in the 1881 census Sarah Sr. was living at 7 Bloomsbury Street, Bromley, with her eldest daughter Frances, her husband Benjamin Scarlett, a journeyman painter, and Henry C. Young, Sarah's grandson (son of Henry). Sarah was still working as a monthly nurse (a nurse that attends women in the month or so after childbirth).

In 1891 Sarah was lodging with a family headed by Thomas Blanchard, a general labourer at 343 Benledi Street, Bromley, and working as a shirt seamstress. In 1901 she was living at 8 Annabel St, Poplar, with her youngest daughter Anne, her husband Alfred Stratton, an iron labourer, and their seven children. The census stated that Sarah was blind.

The death record for Sarah hasn't been tracked down yet but it's likely she died within a few years of 1901.

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
   birth certificate for Henry Young, born 17 Apr 1844; citing 2/332/87, Apr-Jun quarter 1844, Poplar Union registration district, Poplar sub-district.
   Henry Young birth certificate
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Middlesex, England. 1861 Census
   Poplar All Saints, folio 155, page 43; citing PRO RG 9/307.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} London, England. 1871 Census
   Poplar All Saints, folio 48, page 7; citing PRO RG 10/585.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} London, England. 1881 Census
   Bromley St Leonard, folio 18, page 29; citing PRO RG 11/503.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} London, England. 1891 Census
   St Leonard, folio 135, page 42; citing PRO RG 12/327.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Middlesex, England. 1851 Census
   Bromley St Leonard, folio 277, page 17; citing PRO HO 107/1555.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} London, England. 1901 Census
   Poplar, folio 120, page 53; citing PRO RG 13/352.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Middlesex, England. 1841 Census
   St Martin in The Fields, folio 36, page 30; citing PRO HO 107/740/8.
9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Hampshire, England. Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
   Nursling, Marriages, 1834 pg 35, Charles Young m. Sarah Blake, 7 Jun 1835.
10. ↑ Hampshire, England. Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921
    Nursling, Baptisms, 1835 pg 76, Frances Young bap. 5 Jul 1835.