Person:Sarah Cross (17)

Sarah Cross was baptised on 20th March 1796 at Cassington in Oxfordshire, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Cross.

On 20th December 1824, aged 28, she married an agricultural labourer called John Goodman at Willen in Buckinghamshire, nearly forty miles north-east of Cassington. The following year they returned to Cassington to have their first child baptised there, although the family's abode was given as Willen on the baptism record, suggesting that they were only visiting.

They returned to Willen and had another two children baptised there in 1827 and 1829.

Sarah died at the age of 33, and was buried at Willen on 18th February 1830. John survived her by over fifty years.

1. ↑ Cassington, Oxfordshire, England. Parish Registers (Oxfordshire History Centre, Oxford).

   1796 / March 20th Sarah Daughter of Nathanel and Mary Cross was Baptized

   This baptism has been linked to the Sarah Cross who married John Goodman at Willen in 1824 on the basis of the baptism of their first child in 1825 being at Cassington.

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Willen Parish Registers, 1665-1981. (Aylesbury: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Willen in the County of Bucks in the Year 1830
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   43	Sarah Goodman	Willen	18th Feb[ruar]y	31 [1798/9]	Tho[ma]s Gardner Vicar of Willen