Sarah Moore [Luff] (1845-1882)

Dates

Birth: January-March 1845 Bradfield, Berkshire, UK
Father: George Moore 1818-1852
Mother: Elizabeth ? c1820-a1851

Christening: 15 March 1845 St Mary, Beenham, Berkshire, UK

Marriage:January-March 1867 Reading Berkshire, UK
Husband: William Luff 1844-1882

Death: September 1882 Farnham,Surrey, UK Burial: 18 September 1882 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Children

Arthur William Luff 1867-1947
Alfred Luff c1868-a1871
Albert Levi Luff 1869-1937
Ernest Luff 1870-1959
Mark Luff 1873-1949
Herbert Luff 1875-a1891
Reuben Luff 1878-1878
Rose Luff [Kirk] 1879-1961
William Edward Luff 1882-1908

Notes

Birth of Sarah Moore in FreeBMD in January-March 1845 in Bradfield (6 173).

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Sarah Moore baptised 15 March 1845 in Beenham, Berkshire, parents George and Elizabeth Moore).

In the 1851 census as Sarah Morre (Sic - in the index, Moore on the original) aged 6, born in Beenham, Oxfordshire (sic - in the index, not on the original), and living with her parents (George and Eliza), brother (Arthur) and sister (Eliza) in The Village, Beenham, Bershire.

Her father died in July-September 1852 in Bradfield.

In the 1861 census as Sarah Moore aged 16, born in Bradfield, Berkshire, and a servant living at Wildernefs Establishment for Discarded London Paupers in Margate St John the Baptist, Kent run by Robert Perry (aged 59 and born in Hehorton, Somerset), his wife (Mary aged 57 and born in New Hampshire, St Georges in the East), two other servants and some thirty others.

Marriage of Sarah Moore and William Luff in FreeBMD in January-March 1867 in Reading (2c 497).

In the 1871 census as Sarah Luff aged 25, born in Durham in the index, Barnham, Suffolk on the original (Suffolk is added in a different hand), and living with her husband (William), and three sons (Albert Lewis, Auther William and Earnest Lewis) at 50 Lower Thorn Street, St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire. There is an Alfred Luft in the same census aged 3, born in Reading, Berkshire, and living with his grand parents (Edward and Harriett), uncle (Edward) and aunt (Elizabeth) at Shortfield Common, Frensham.

In the 1881 census as Sarah Luff aged 35, born in Berkshire and living with her husband (William), four sons (Earnest, Herbert, Levi and Mark) and daughter (Rose) at Hillside, Frensham, Surrey.

Her husband died in April 1882 in Frensham.

Entry in FreeBMD for the death of Sarah Luff in July-September 1882 aged 36 in Farnham (2a 64).

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Burials, 1813-1987 for Sarah Luff on 18 September 1882 aged 36 at Frensham St Mary. "Page 22 Burials in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year One Thousand eight hundred and eighty two [...] Sarah Luff No. 176 of Frensham Sept 18th 1882 aged 38".

David Hornblow has an entry for Sarah Moore born in 1846 in Berkshire, her marriage to William Luff in Reading, Berkshire in 1867, her six children, and her death in Farnham, Hampshire in 1882.

There are seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees.

Beenham and Bradfield are 2 miles apart and 8 miles west of Reading between M4 and A4.

Relationship

Sarah Moore was the wife of William Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.

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