Person:Sarah Plummer (8)

Sarah Plummer was baptised on 10th August 1746 at Stotfold in Bedfordshire, daughter of a labourer called John Plummer and his wife Ann.

On 4th April 1768, aged 21, Sarah married John Randall, a salesman, at Stotfold. They went on to have five children baptised at Stotfold between 1769 and 1780.

Sarah’s mother died in 1773.

John died in 1779, whilst Sarah was pregnant with their fifth child. John was buried at Stotfold on 14th November 1779, whilst Sarah’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth, was not baptised until 6th February 1780. Elizabeth died when she was only six years old in 1786.

Sarah’s daughter Sarah died when seventeen years old in 1793. Sarah’s father died in 1795.

Sarah lived to be 82 years old. She was buried at Stotfold on 28th June 1829. She had been a widow for nearly fifty years.

1. ↑ Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. Transcript of Stotfold Parish Registers.

   Baptisms 1746: Aug 10 Sar d Jn & Ann Plomer [Plummer-T.]

2. ↑ England. National Burial Index.

   bur. 28 Jun 1829, St Mary the Virgin, Stotfold, Bedfordshire: Sarah Randall, aged 84 [1744/5]

   Needs to be confirmed at Bedfordshire Archives.