Birth: 1751/2 Oakwood (Okewood), Surrey, UK
Father: Thomas Sayer (Sayers) 1717/8-1791
Mother: Anne (Ann) Sayer 1715-1761
Christening: 15 March 1751/2 St John the Baptist, Oakwood (Okewood), Surrey, UK
Marriage: 11 May 1774 Abinger, Surrey, UK
Husband: William Holt 1745-1804
Death: After 1785
Elizabeth Holt [Pullen] 1774-1810
George Holt 1778-1846
William Holt 1780-1781
Henry Holt 1782
Martha Holt [Nethercliffe (Netherclifft), Strudwick] 1785-1844
Christening of Sarah Sayer in the IGI on 15 March 1752 in Oakwood, Surrey, parents Thomas and Ann Sayer. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Sarah Sayer baptised 15 March 1751 in Okewood, St John the Baptist, parents Thomas and Ann Sayer. "March 1751 Baptizd [...] March 15 Sarah Daurof Thomas and Ann Sayer". Note the year started on March 25, and there is a year between the two March entries.
Marriage of Sarah Sayers and William Holt in the IGI on 11 May 1774 in Abinger, Surrey. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973. The same information is in the West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Marriage Index adding both were of this parish.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records "11 May 1774 William Holt & Sarah Sayers (M), both of this par. B. By E. E. Witnesses: Hannah Barnard, J. M." in Abinger, Wotton, Oakwood.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Sarah Sayers and William Holt on 11 May 1774 at Abinger, St James. "The Year 1772 Page 18 [...] No. 72 William Holt of this Parish and Sarah Sayers of same Parish Married in this Church by Banns this Eleventh Day of May in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Seventy four [he signed his name, she made her mark]"
All the children were christened in Oakwood.
There are twenty nine entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Sarah Sayer/Sayers.
Oakwood also spelt Okewood is part of the parish of Ockley, Okewood and Forest Green on the A29 south of Dorking. Okewood Hill is about 5 miles east of Ewhurst, and Abinger (Hammer) is 6 miles north. Wooton is a mile east of Abinger Hammer on A25. St John the Baptist, Oakwood Hill (formerly Okewood Hill) was originally a chapel of ease to Wotton and is 8 miles to the south.
Sarah Sayer was Felicity's fourth great grandmother.
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