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m. Abt 1658
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m. Bet Apr 1662 and 1664
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[edit] Last Name and Birth Family UnknownThe wife of Thomas “Orphan” Meador, and the mother of his children, was named Sarah, as evidenced in two documents she signed on 13 April 1662, prior to her remarriage.[1][3] Sarah is said to have been born about 1637, apparently based on the estimated birth date of her husband and/or the estimated date of their marriage. There is as yet no known actual record of her birth. As of 1983, Meador and Meador indicated that Sarah’s last name at birth was unknown. By the late 1990s, Sarah was being reported, without documentation, as Sarah Hoskins. [4] By 2000 there was already speculation that her parents may have been Bartholomew and Dorcas (Isham) Hoskins,[5] although in the early 2000s there were some who preferred William and Ann (Hindes) Hoskins as her parents, again without documentation.[6] By the mid-2000s, Sarah Hoskins, daughter of Bartholomew and Dorcas (Isham) Hoskins seems to have become the accepted, but still undocumented, standard.[7] In January 2007, the question of sources was raised when it was pointed out that there did not appear to be any connection between Bartholomew Hoskins of Lower Norfolk County and his heirs, and the Meador heirs of [Old] Rappahannock County.[8] This led to the actual citation of a record for the Bartholomew Hoskins family, and the suggestion that Bartholomew’s son-in-law was named Thomas Meares, and that therefore he could not be the father of the Sarah who married Thomas Meador[9] Despite all undocumented claims, the family name and parents of Sarah, wife of Thomas Meader, remain UNKNOWN. [edit] Marriages and childrenSarah married Thomas “Orphan” Meador, probably sometime around 1658, based on the presumed birth dates of their children. Those children included John, Susanna, and Mary, as indicated in Sarah’s declaration of April 1662. Sarah is presumed to have married, as her second husband, Henry Awbrey, probably in April 1662, just after signing the declaration of her obligation to the children of her first marriage. (There is no known record of the marriage.) Such a declaration was consistent with an impending marriage when one of the parties to the marriage had minor children from a previous marriage. Henry Awbrey as Sarah’s second husband is supported by the will of Henry’s son Richard, in 1697,[2] in which he referred to Sarah’s children John and Susannah as “brother” and “sister”, implying that they were either half-siblings or step-siblings. Since Henry had no known living minor children at the time of his marriage to Sarah, and since Richard was born after 1661, he is generally accepted as Sarah’s son.[1] [edit] DeathSarah appeared as Henry Awbrey’s wife in 1664, when she acted as his attorney; in 1670, when she co-signed a deed of sale; and again in 1672, when she co-signed another deed of sale.[1] Sarah did die before Henry, however. In his will, in 1694, Henry named his wife Mary, not Sarah.[2] Sarah’s most likely date of death is sometime between 1672, when she co-signed a deed, and 1675, when Henry made a deed of gift to his son Richard. That deed of gift probably signed the time of his remarriage, after the death of Sarah. References
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