Birth: 22 June 1793 Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Nathan Akeroyd 1774-1815
Mother: Rhoda Butterworth b1777-a1798
Christening: 28 August 1793 Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 27 March 1813 Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Francis Sedgwick (Sidgwick) 1793-1873
Death: 23 November 1868 26 George Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Death: 26 November 1868 St Marks, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Alice Sedgwick [Thompson] 1814-1880
Elizabeth Sedgwick 1815
Ackeroyd Sedgwick 1818-1890
Rhoda Sedgwick 1820-1823
John Sedgwick 1822-1823
Sarah Ann Sedgwick 1824-a1841
Rose Ann (Roseann) Sedgwick 1827-a1848
Emma Sedgwick 1829-a1851
Francis Henry Sedgwick (Sidgwick) 1831-1896
Benjamin Sedgwick (Sidgwick) 1833
Rhoda Ellen 1834/5
Ellen Sedgwick (Sidgwick) 1836-a1861
William Sedgwick 1838-1916
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Sarah Akeroyd baptised 28 August 1793 at Saint Peter, Yorks, father Nathan Akeroyd.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Sarah Akeroyd born 22 June 1793 baptised 28 August 1793 at Leeds, St Peter, father Nathan Akeroyd. "Baptisms at the Parish Church of Leeds 1793 August [...] Nathan Akeroyd [of] Ebenezer Street [born] June 22 [baptised] 28 [named] Sarah".
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for the marriage of Sarah Akeroyd and Francis Sedgwick on 27 March 1813 at St Peter, Leeds, York.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the marriage of Sarah Akeroyd and Francis Sedgwick on 27 March 1813 at Leeds St Peter. "Page 44 [...] Francis Sedgwick of this Parifh Cloth drefser and Sarak Akeroyd of this Parifh Spinster were married in this Church by Banns with Cofent of [blank] this twenty seventh Day of March in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and thirteen [he signed his name, she made her mark].
Her children were baptised in Leeds from 1814 to 1834.
In the 1841 census as Sarah Sedgwick aged 45 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Yorkshire, and living with Francis (husband?) and Ellen, Emma, F Henry, Rosa Ann, Sarah and Wm (children?) in St Mark Street, NW Leeds, Yorkshire.
In the 1851 census as Sarah Sedgwick aged 57, born in Leeds and living with her husband (Francis), two sons (Francis and William), and three daughters (Ellen, Emma and Sarah) at 1 Shutis Yard, North Leeds, Yorkshire.
In the 1861 census as Sarah Shedgwick (sic - on the original) aged 67, born in Leeds and living with her husband (Francis), two daughters (Ellen and Emma) and granddaughter (Sarah Eliza - aged 2 and born in Leeds, I haven't identified her parents) and a boarder (Alice Thompson aged 30, unmarried and employed as a cloth bundler) at 1 Shutis Yard, North Leeds, Yorkshire.
Death of Sarah Sedgwick in FreeBMD in October-December 1868 aged 75 in Leeds (9B 322).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for the burial of Sarah Sedgwick on 26 November 1868 at Woodhouse, St Mark. "Page 391 Burials in the Parish of St Mark, Woodhouse in the County of York in the Year 1868 [...] Sarah Sedgwick No. 3149 [of] George St [on] Nov. 26th [aged] 75 years."
There are fifty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Sarah Akeroyd.
Sarah Akeroyd was the great grandmother of Henry Sedgwick, husband of Elizabeth Bostock Felicity's third cousin three times removed.
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