Birth: 26 August 1786 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Father: John Whiting (Whitting) 1759-1807
Mother: Susan Harden 1760-a1799
Christening: 27 December 1791 St James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Marriage: 30 July 1810 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London
Husband: William Empson 1788-1851/61
Death: 9 June 1852 Orchard Place, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
Mary Ann (Anne) Empson [Stubbs] c1811-1872
Entry in the IGI for the birth of Sarah Whiting on 26 August 1786, parents John Whiting and Susan, and her christening on 27 December 1791 at Saint James, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk. Her two sisters Mary and Susan were christened at the same time.
There are two submitted entries in the IGI for the birth of Sarah Whiting on 26 August 1786 at St James-Bury, St Edmonds, Suffolk, parents John whiting and Susan Harden, and another with the same information except the place of birth is Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk.
There are two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Sarah Whiting born 26 August 1786 and baptised 27 December 1791, at Saint James, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, parents John and Susan Whiting in one, and at Sudbury, Suffolk, parents John and Susan Harden Whiting in the other.
There is an entry in the IGI for the marriage of Sarah Whiting and William Empson on 30 July 1810 in Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837 for Sarah Whiting and Wm Empson in 1810 in Spitalfields Christchurch. "Whiting Sarah = Wm Empson Spitalf'lds 1810 lic.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the banns of Sarah Whiting and William Empson on 29 July 1810 at Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets. "July August The Year 1810 Page 161 [...] No. 302 Banns of Marriage between William Empson Bachr and Sarah Whiting Spinr both of this Parish were publifhed on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to fay, On Sunday, the 15th of July [...] On Sunday, the 22d [...] On Sunday, the 29th."
Marriage of Sarah Whiting and William Empson in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 on 30 July 1810 in Spitalfields Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen. "Number 701 page 234 1810 William Empson Bach of this parish and Sarah Whiting Spins of the same parish married in this church by banns this 30th Day of July 1810 [both signed their names] in the Presence of Thomas Bailey and Sarah Ann Robinson".
Her daughter was born in Cheapside, London, Middlesex in about 1811, but not christened until 19 January 1819 at St Nicholas, Nottingham when they were living in Chesterfield Street.
In the 1841 census as Sarah Empson aged 45 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Nottinghamshire (sic), and living with her husband? (William) and grandson? (Horatio) at Edward Street, Nottingham.
In the 1851 census as Sarah Empson aged 61, born in Bury St Edmunds, and living with her husband (William) and grandson (Noratio - sic) at Orchard Square, Nottingham St Nicholas, Nottinghamshire
Entry in FreeBMD for the death of Sarah Empson in April-June 1852 in Nottingham (7b 146). On a copy of the entry of death number 389 in 1852 in Castle, Nottingham it states Sarah Empson, wife of William Empson, a framesmith, died on 9 June 1852 at Orchard Place aged 63 of Phthisis Pulmonalis (from Antiquus Morbus Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis). The informant was H T Stubbs (her grandson) who was present at the death, which was registered on 11 June 1852.
There are thirteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Sarah Whiting.
Note that there is a Whiting Street in Bury St. Edmunds between Abbeygate Steet and Westgate Street.
Sarah Whiting was Felicity's third great grandmother.
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