Sarah Wamsley (1754?, bur.1826)

  • Name:

  • Sarah Wamsley

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Individual Events and Attributes

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1826, Burial Register Entry for Sarah Dowell

  • Birth:

  • 1754 (est)

  • Warwick, Warwickshire

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  • As her baptismal record could not be found it is impossible to determine her date of birth with any degree of accuracy. On the assumtion that she was in her early twenties when she married gives an estimated date of 1765. However, the age recorded in the register for her burial is 72 which would give a birth year of 1754.

  • Parent:

  • 1791 (cal) (age 36-37)

  • Birth of son Thomas

  • Spouse:

  • 8 Jul 1798 (age 43-44)

  • Her husband Thomas was buried in St Nicholas Churchyard

  • Burial:

  • 3 Feb 1826 (age 72)

  • St Nicholas churchyard1

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  • Address: Warwick, Warwickshire

Marriage

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1787, Register Entry for Banns of Marriage between Thomas Dowell and Sarah Warmsley

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1786, Register Entry for the Marriage of Thomas Dowell and Sarah Wamsley in St Nicholas Church, Warwick

  • Spouse:

  • Thomas Dowell (1760?, bur.1798)

  • Children:

  • Thomas Dowell (1791?-1874)

  • Marriage Banns:

  • 29 Oct 1787 (age 32-33)

  • St Nicholas Church2

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  • Address: Warwick, Warwickshire

  • Marriage:

  • 25 Dec 1787 (age 32-33)

  • St Nicholas Church3

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  • Address: Warwick

    The register entries are single line entries and the information provided is minimal generally being confined to the date and the couple’s names. For Thomas and Sarah's marriage the name Abraham Busan has been added. Who he was and his relationship to Thomas and Sarah is not known but he probably a witness.

Individual Note

Baptism

The baptismal records for Sarah could not be found so her ancestors could not be determined.

Note on Marriage to Thomas Dowell

There is no certainty that Thomas Dowell and and Sarah Wamsley are the parents of Thomas Dowell (99) who was born in 1787. However, it is known from Census returns that Thomas (jnr) was born in Warwick and his Death Certificate indicates that he was born in 1787. A search for his baptismal record in Warwick was fruitless, but a register entry for the marriage of Thomas (snr) and Sarah in 1786 was found. Given the facts that their marriage was a year before Thomas (jnr's) birth, it was in Warwick and the Christian names of father and son are the same it is reasonable to suppose that Thomas and Sarah were Thomas' parents.

Sources

1.

Rev. John Kendal, Register Entry for Burial of Sarah Dowell at St Nicholas, Warwick, Warwickshire, (Family Search website). Custom Id: Burials 1826, Page 93, No. 739; Cit. Date: 3 February 1826. Warwickshire County Records Office, Priory Park, Cape Road. Tel: 01926 738959.

2.

Parish Register for Banns of Thomas Dowell and Sarah Warmsley, St Nicholas, Warwick, Warwickshire, 22 October 1787, Warwickshire County Records Office.

3.

Church of England, St Nicholas Church, Warwick, Warwickshire. Register Entry for the Marriage of Thomas Dowell and Sarah Wamsley, (Ancetry Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1064; Document Reference: DR 181/7.). Cit. Date: 25 December 1786. Warwickshire County Records Office, Priory Park, Cape Road. Tel: 01926 738959.