Person:Sarah Allpress (1)

Sarah Allpress was born on 8th August 1827 and baptised two months later at Shoreditch in Middlesex, in the inner suburbs of London. She was the daughter of a piano maker and cabinet maker called Joseph Allpress and his wife Emily. The family later moved to Islington, where Sarah appears in the 1841 census with her parents and siblings living at Union Place. In 1851 Sarah was working as a linen draper's assistant, living with her brother Joseph (a linen draper) and his family at 4 & 5 Barnsbury Place in Islington.

In 1854, aged 26, Sarah married William John Samuel Timothy, who was also a linen draper. The following year they had a daughter called Jane.

William had his own drapery business at 40 Barbican in the City of London. The business struggled financially and in 1857 William had to hand over much of his property to his creditors. He then moved the business to 74 Culford Road in the Kingsland area north of the city, but his financial trouble continued; in March 1861 William was sent to the debtors' jail at Queen's Bench Prison in Southwark. The 1861 census taken the following month finds Sarah and her daughter living with her brother Joseph at 1 Park Road in Islington. William stayed in Queen's Bench Prison for over eight months, being released in November 1861, after he had been declared bankrupt.

Sarah and William went on to have a daughter called Marion in 1862, and a girl in 1865 who died shortly after birth.

In 1870 Sarah and her two daughters were sued by her husband William. William's brother Peter and a man called Edward Henry Davies were also sued in the same case, which suggests it may have been to do with the administration of William's late father's estate, for which Peter was the executor. Perhaps William believed that Peter had paid money to William's wife and daughters that should have gone to him.

The 1871 census finds Sarah, William and their two daughters and a servant girl living in the town of Grays in Essex, running a drapery business on the High Street there. Yet again the business ran into financial trouble, and in 1873 the business went into liquidation.

Sarah and William's marriage also broke down some time during the 1870s. They were living apart by 1879, when William bigamously married another woman.

The 1881 census finds Sarah and her daughters living in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. Shortly after that census, both her daughters married. By 1891 Sarah had moved to New Malden in Surrey, where she lived with her younger daughter's family.

Sarah died in 1901 in Surrey, aged 73.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Baptisms register, in Church of England. St. Leonard's Church (Shoreditch, Middlesex). Shoreditch St Leonard Parish Registers, 1558-1901. (London: London Metropolitan Archives).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex in the Year 1827
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   1284	Oct[ober] 7	Sarah d[aughter] of	Joseph & Emily	Allpress	Hoxton	Piano Forte Maker	[born] 8 Aug[us]t 1827

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 664; Book 12; Folio 10; Page 15, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Union Place, Islington, Middlesex
   Joseph Allpress, male, 45 [1791-6], Cabinet maker, born in county
   Emily Allpress, female, 40 [1796-1801], not born in county
   Robert Allpress, male, 15 [1821-5], born in county
   Emily Allpress, female, 15 [1821-6], born in county
   William Allpress, male, 10 [1830/1], born in county
   Sarah Allpress, female, 9 [1831/2], born in county
   Julia Allpress, female, 8 [1832/3], born in county
   Mary Allpress, female, 5 [1835/6], born in county
   George Allpress, male, 4 [1836/7], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1499; Folio 174; Page 21, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: 4 & 5 Barnsbury Place, Islington, Middlesex
   Joseph Allpress, head, married, male, 29 [1821/2], Linen Draper, b. St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex
   Katharine M. Allpress, wife, married, female, 30 [1820/1], b. Blackfriars Road, Surrey
   Frank Allpress, son, male, 4 [1846/7], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Frederic J. Allpress, son, male, 3 [1847/8], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Katharine E. Allpress, daughter, female, 2 [1848/9], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Harry N. Allpress, son, male, 6m [1850], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Sarah Allpress, sister, unmarried, female, 23 [1827/8], Linen Draper's Assistant, b. Hoxton, Middlesex
   Juliana J. Allpress, sister, unmarried, female, 18 [1832/3], Linen Draper's Assistant, b. Islington, Middlesex
   George M. Allpress, brother, unmarried, male, 14 [1836/7], Linen Draper's Assistant, b. Islington, Middlesex
   Charlotte O'Hare, assistant, unmarried, female, 23 [1827/8], Milliner, b. Ireland
   Thomas C. Sutton, assistant, unmarried, male, 19 [1831/2], Linen Draper's Assistant, b. Croyland, Lancashire
   John H. Barclay, assistant, unmarried, male, 19 [1831/2], Linen Draper's Apprentice, b. Bloomsbury, Middlesex
   Elizabeth A. Cox, servant, unmarried, female, 19 [1831/2], Nursery Maid, b. Stoke Newington, Middlesex
   Elizabeth Martin, servant, unmarried, female, 23 [1827/8], House Maid, b. Hoxton O.S.[?]. Middlesex
   William W. Stevens, apprentice, unmarried, male, 16 [1834/5], Linen Draper's Apprentice, b. Blackman

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 136; Folio 96; Page 31, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 1 Park Road, Islington, Middlesex
   Joseph Allpress, head, married, male, 39 [1821/2], Mas[te]r linendraper employing 15 assistants & a Porter, b. St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex
   Catherine M. Allpress, wife, married, female, 43 [1817/8], b. Blackfriars, Middlesex
   Frederic J. Allpress, son, male, 13 [1847/8], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Catherine E. Allpress, daughter, female, 12 [1848/9], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Charles E. Allpress, son, male, 8 [1852/3], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Annie L. Allpress, daughter, female, 6 [1854/5], b. Islington, Middlesex
   Sarah Timothy, sister, married, female, 33 [1827/8], b. Hoxton (St John), Middlesex
   Jane Timothy, niece, female, 6 [1854/5], b. Cripplegate, Middlesex
   Elizabeth Clark, servant, unmarried, female, 22 [1838/9], b. Heybridge, Essex
   Louisa A. Chard, servant, unmarried, female, 25 [1835/6], b. Westminster, Middlesex

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 1653; Folio 69; Page 30, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: High Street, Grays, Essex
   William Timothy, head, married, male, 43 [1827/8], Draper, b. Cripplegate, London
   Sarah Timothy, wife, married, female, 43 [1827/8], b. Cripplegate, London
   Jane Timothy, daughter, female, 16 [1854/5], Draper, b. Chelsea, Middlesex
   Marion Timothy, daughter, female, 8 [1862/3], Scholar, b. Cripplegate, Middlesex
   Ellen Dowis, servant, female, 13 [1857/8], Domestic Serv[ant], b. Mucking, Essex

6. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 1444; Folio 86; Page 18, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Hollybush Row, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
   Sarah Timothy, head, married, female, 53 [1827/8], Linen Draper's Wife, b. Chelsea, Middlesex
   Jane Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 26 [1854/5], b. Barbican, Middlesex
   Marion Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 18 [1862/3], b. Kingsland, Middlesex
   Joseph W. Thomas, visitor, unmarried, male, 30 [1850/1], Architect's Clerk, b. Brixton, Surrey

7. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 609; Folio 38; Page 8, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: Cambridge Terrace, Malden Road, New Malden (Urban Sanitary District), Kingston (Parish), Surrey
   Joseph W. Thomas, head, married, male, 40 [1850/1], Accountant non-conformist preacher, employed, b. London
   Maria Thomas, married, female, 28 [1862/3], b. Kingsland, London
   Reginald Thomas, son, male, 2 [1888/9], b. Harlesden, Middlesex
   Sarah Timothy, mother in law, married, female, 65 [1825/6], Living on her own means, b. Chelsea, Middlesex

8. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Sarah TIMOTHY, March Quarter 1901, Kingston Registration District, Volume 2a, page 233, aged 73 [1827/8]

9.   Discovery Catalogue (The National Archives).

   Reference: C 16/681/T58
   Cause number: 1870 T58
   Short Title: Timothy v Timothy
   Documents: Bill only.
   Plaintiffs: William John Samuel Timothy.
   Defendants: Sarah Timothy, Jane Timothy, Edward Henry Davies (since abroad) and Peter Vincent Timothy.
   Date: 1870