Birth: 22 November 1879 Copgrove, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Fairbank Abbey 1855-1935
Mother: Jane Elsworth 1857-1947
Christening: 14 December 1879 St Michael and All Angels, Copgrove, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 5 April 1975 Faircroft, Station Road, Hensell, North, Yorkshire, UK
None known
Birth of Sarah Jane Abbey in FreeBMD in October-December 1879 in Gt. Ouseburn (9A 92).
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 for Sarah Jane Abbey batised on 14 DEcember 1879 in Copgrove, Yorkshire, parenta Quirbank (sic) and Jane Abbey. "Page 23 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Copgrove in the County of York in the Year 1877 [...] 1879 Decr 14 No, 181 Sarah Jane [parents Fairbank [a] Clerk & Jane Abbey of Copgrove".
In the 1881 census as Sarah J Abbey aged 1, born in Copgrove, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Fairbank and Jane) at Bond End, Scriven cum Tentergate, Yorkshire.
Her sister was born on 4 September 1883, registered in October-December 1883 in Knaresborough, and baptised 7 October 1883 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough when they were living at Bond End.
Her sister was born on 16 October 1887, registered in October-December 1887 in Knaresborough, and baptised 13 November 1887 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough when they were living at Bond End.
In the 1891 census as Sarah Jane Abbey aged 11, born in Copgrove, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Frederick and Jane) and two sisters (Edith E and Helena) in Bond End, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Sarah Daniel (sic - in the index, illegible on the original) Abby (sic - on the original) aged 21, born in Copgrove, Yorkshire, single, a dressmaker working on her own account at home, and living with her parents (Fairbank and Jane), and two sisters (Edith Elsworth and Helena) in Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Sarah Jane Abbey aged 31, born in Copgrove, Yorkshire, single, a dressmaker working on her own account at home, and visiting Annie Maria Herrington (aged 45, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single and of private means) in the High Street, Knaresborough, Yorkshire West Riding.
In the 1921 census as Sarah Jane Abbey born in Copgrove, Yorkshire in 1880 and living with Taubank (sic) and Jane Abbey (parents?) and Helena Abbey (sister?) in Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).
There are six entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Sarah Jane Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon from 1930 to 1935, other occupants Fairbank and Jane Abbey (parents?), and Helene Abbey (sister?) in 1930.
Her father died on 15 August 1935 at 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough and left effects of £1366 11s. 4d. to Jane Abbey (her widowed mother) and Sarah Jane Abbey spinster.
Entry in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Sarah Jane Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon in 1936, other occupant Jane Abbey (mother?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Sarah J Abbey born 22 November 1879, single, and living with Jane Abbey (widowed mother?) and two others at 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Sarah Jane Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon in 1940, other occupant Jane Abbey (mother?(, and two for Sarah J Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon from 1945 to 1946, other occupant Jane Abbey (mother?).
Her mother died on 15 September 1947 at 4 Propspect Terrace and left effects of £4134 3s. 7d. to Sarah Jane Abbey spinster and Edith Elsworth Ward (wife of Harold Simpson Ward).
Eleven entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Sarah J Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon changing to Harrogate in 1951, from 1948 to 1961.
Death of Sarah Jane Abbey, born 22 November 1879, in FreeBMD in April-June 1975 in Selby (2 2507).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Sarah Jane Abbey died 15 August (sic - in the index) in Hensall Goole probate 28 May 1975 in Leeds. "Abbey, Sarah Jane of Faircroft Station Rd Hensall Goole died 5 April 1975 Probate Leeds 28 May £3237".
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Sarah Jane Abbey.
Copgrove is some 8 miles north of Harrogate and east of A61, and Hensell is 8 miles south of Selby just noth of M62 and east of A19.
Sarah Jane Abbey was the second cousin of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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