Person:Sarah Parker (146)

Sarah Parker’s origins have yet to be established for certain. The age given when she died suggests that she was born around 1741. Her first confirmed sighting is on 8th January 1765, when she married Thomas Hart at Shipley in Sussex.

Sarah and Thomas went on to have seven children baptised at Shipley between 1766 and 1780, although one died as a baby in 1779.

Thomas died in 1810. Sarah survived him by nearly sixteen years. She died in 1826, being buried at Shipley on 9th April. She was said to be 84 years old.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Shipley, Sussex: Parish Registers (West Sussex County Council, Chichester).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Shipley in the County of Sussex in the Year 1826
   No	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   215	Sarah Hart	Shipley	April 9th	84 y[ea]rs [1741/2]	E. Elms

   There was another Sarah Hart burial at Shipley:
   Burials / 1801 / Mar[ch] 8 / Sarah Hart, Widow
   However, as that Sarah was described as a widow and the only burial in the right period of a Thomas Hart at Shipley is in 1810, it is assumed that the Sarah buried in 1801 must be someone else, and the Sarah buried in 1826 is therefore this one.