Birth: 1757 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: John Knight 1716-1891
Mother: Mary Stenning 1726-1789
Christening: 26 June 1757 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: 5 November 1779 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Edward Keen (Keene, Keens) 1752-1838
Death: 6 August 1844 Upper West End, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Buried: 10 August 1844 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Frances Keen [Baker] 1781-1859
Sarah Keen [Sturt] 1782-1865
Edward Keen 1783-1850
Mary Keen [Parsons] 1785-1866
William Keen 1787-1861
John Keen 1788
Richard Keen 1791-1866
Daniel Keen 1793-1860
Anna Marie Keen [Heward] 1796-1875
Elizabeth Keen 1801-1802
Entry in Headley Baptisms for Sarah Knight on 26 June 1757 parents John and Mary.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Sarah Knight baptised 26 June 1757 in Headley, Hampshire, parents John and Mary Knight.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Sarah Knight baptised 26 June 1757 at Headley, All Saints, parents John and Mary Knight. "1757 [Page] 33 [...] June 26 Sarah the Daughter of John & Mary Knight was baptized."
Entry in Ancestry London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 for Sarah Knight a spinster of All Saints, Headley and Edward Keen, a bachelor of Farnham St Andrew on 20 October 1779 at Farnham St Andrew sealed in the presence of William Keen.
Entry in Headley Marriages for Sarah Knight and Edward Keene of Farnham, Surrey on 5 November 1779, witnesses Danial Knight and John Hunt.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Sarah Knight and Edward Keene on 5 November 1779 at Headley All Saints, Surrey. "The Year 1779 Page 1 1779 No. 1: Edward Keene of the Parifh of Farnham in the County of Surrey & Sarah Knight of this Parish were Married in this Church by Licence this fifth Day of November in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Seventy & Nine [...] in the Presence of Daniel Knight and John Hunt".
Her first daughter was born in Tilford and baptised in Frensham in 1781 and the last nine children were baptised in Headley from 1782 to 1801.
Her husband died at Linstead on 21 August 1838 and was buried in Headley on 27 August 1838
In the 1841 census as Sarah Keese (sic - in the index, Keene on the original) aged 80, not born in Surrey, of independent means, and living with James Bakes (grandson?), Mary Bakes (great granddaughter?), George Hammons (aged 14, born in Surrey and a male servant) and Fredrick Smith (aged 12, born in Surrey and a male servant), and living separately but in the same house as her son-in-law (Richard Baker and her daughter Frances and family at Upper West End, Frensham, Surrey.
Death of Sarah Keen in FreeBMD in July-September 1844 in Farnham (4 97).
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Sarah Keen buried 10 August 1844 in Headley, Hampshire.
Entry in Headley Burials for Sarah Keen of Frensham on 10 August 1844 aged 87.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997for Sarah Keen buried on 10 August 1844 aged 44 (sic) at Headley, All Saints "Page 75 Burials in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1844 [...] Sarah Keen No. 600 [of] Frensham [on] August 10th [aged] yrs 87".
Entry in Headley Monumental Inscrptions East of Chancel No. 27 "In memory of/Edward Keen/who died/August 21 1838/aged 85 years/also/Sarah/his wife/who died/August 6 1844/aged 87 years."
There are 162 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Sarah Knight.
Sarah Knight was the mother of Frances Keen, wife of Richard Baker, my third great granduncle.
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