Birth: January-March 1874 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Grandfather: Thomas Abbey 1813-1896
Grandmother: Harriet Parkinson 1813-1860
Unknown
Marriage: 24 December 1898 St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: John William Whitehead 1873-1969
Death: 28 June 1946 123 Beckett Street, Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
None known
It is not clear who her parents were - in the entry for her marriage she states her father was John, a coal dealer, but John was a leather worker.
Birth of Sarah Ellen Abbey in FreeBMD in January-March 1874 in Knaresborough (9A 98).
In the 1881 census as Sarah E Abbey aged 7, born in Knaresbro, Yorkshire, and living with her widowed grandfather (Thomas), brother (Leonard), and two aunts (Mary A and Margret) in Windsor Lane, Scriven with Tentergare, Yorkshire, a note adding Transfered to Knaresborough by D.P. act of 1882.
In the 1891 census as Sarah Abbey aged 17, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and a servant living with Lila Vaughan (aged 14 ), Derwent R Vaughan (aged 10) and Mabel R Vaughan (aged 9 and all born in Leeds, Yorkshire), a visitor (Mary Temple aged 63, born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, widowed and no stated employment), and another servant (Mary Hemingway aged 30, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire single and a cook) at Bromwell Parade, Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the banns of Sarah Ellen Abbey and John William Whitehead on 4 December 1898 at Leeds, St Peter. "1898 Dec 4 [No.] 8 John William Whitehead [and] Sarah Ellen Abbey all of Leeds".
Marriage of Sarah Ellen Abbey and John William Whitehead in FreeBMD in October-December 1898 in Leeds (9B 779).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the marriage of Sarah Ellen Abbey aged 24, father John Abbey, and John William Whitehead on 24 December 1898 at Leeds St Peter. "Page 233 [...] 1898 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Leeds in the County of York. [No.] 466 December 24 John William Whitehead [aged] 25, [a] Bachelor [and] Platelayer [of] York Street [father] John Whitehead [a] Publican, [and] Sarah Ellen Abbey [aged] 24 [a] Spinster [of] York Street [father] John Abbey [a] Coal dealer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns".
In the 1901 census as Sarah E Whitehead aged 26, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire and living with her husband (John W Whitehead) and his aunt (Dorothy Whitehead) in three rooms at 14 Thornville Terrace, Headingley cum Burley, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Sarah Ellen Whitchead (sic - in the index) aged 37, born in Knaiesborough (sic - in the index), Yorkshire and living with her husband (John Wm) and husband's aunt (Dorothy Whitchead) at 26 Vicarage View, Kirkstall, Yorksgire West Riding.
Sarah Ellen Whitehead and her husband John William Whitehead were witnesses at the marriage of her first cousin Tom Richard Abbey and Margaret Ann Hobson at St Peter, Leeds on 7 August 1920.
In the 1921 census as Sarah Ellen Whitehead born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire in 1874, married for 12 years with no children, and living with John William Whitehead (husband?) in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Sarah E Whithead (sic - in the index, Whitehead on the original), born 9 February 1874, married, and living with John W Whithead (husband?) in three rooms at 26 Vicarage View, Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Sarah E Whithead in FreeBMD in April-June 1946 aged 72 in Leeds (9B 558).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Sarah Ellen Whitehead died 28 June 1946 in Leeds, probate 2 August 1946 in Wakefield. Whitehead Sarah Ellen of 26 Vicarage-view Kirkstall Leeds (wife of John William Whitehead) died 28 June 1946 at 123 Beckett-street Leeds Administration Wakefield 2 August to the said John William Whitehead retired egineers labourer. Effects £444 11s. 6d."
Sarah Ellen Anney was the first 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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