Person:Sarah Grubb (7)

Sarah Grubb was baptised on 1st January 1756 at St Ive in Cornwall, daughter of Joanna Grubb. Joanna was only fifteen when Sarah was born. In 1760 Sarah's mother married James Collins at South Hill, a neighbouring parish to St Ive, and they later moved to the nearby town of Callington. Sarah appears to have stayed in St Ive, suggesting she may have been brought up by her widowed grandmother, another Joanna Grubb.

Sarah was married on 5th November 1777 at St Ive to Robert Harry. Her grandmother Joanna Grubb was one of the witnesses to the marriage. Sarah and Robert had eight children between 1778 and 1800. The first seven children were baptised at St Ive. The seventh child died as a baby in 1797, after which the family appears to have left St Ive and moved ten miles south to the town of Saltash, where their youngest daughter was baptised.

Robert died just a couple of years after the move to Saltash, being buried at Saltash's parish church of St Stephen by Saltash on 11th February 1803. They had been married for 25 years, and Sarah's youngest daughter was less than three years old. It has yet to be established what became of Sarah. Her children appear to have stayed in the east Cornwall area, marrying and having children in Saltash and Quethiock, and occasionally venturing over the River Tamar to Devonport (Stoke Damerel) in west Devon.

1. ↑ Cornwall, England. Online Parish Clerks.

   ch. 1 Jan 1756, St Ive: Sarah daughter of Joan Grubb a base child

   This baptism has been linked to the Sarah Grubb who married Robert Harry in 1777 on the basis that when Sarah married one of the witnesses was Joanna Grubb, who appears to have been her grandmother - her mother's name was Joanna too, but she had married in 1760 becoming Joanna Collins. This 1756 baptism is also the only Sarah Grubb baptism found to date at a plausible time in Cornwall, and happens to be in the exact same parish in which she married. There is no evidence of the Sarah baptised at St Ive in 1756 having died young or married anyone else.