Baptised then lost?

[Stevie b]

Hi

Can anyone find Sarah Moore baptized St Marys, Chatham 20 May 1831, then disappears, can't find a death or mention on any census returns.

Please help!!!

Steve

[wozzle]

according to the IGI sarahs parents were william-hannah
had a look for the parents
this is a possible though sarahs age out a bit
1841. HO107/487/book10/6/5.
william moore age 50. occ. joiner.
robert moore age 15.
john moore age 13.
susannah moore age 11.
sarah moore age 7.
living at coleman street,chatham,kent.
reg.dist. medway.

had a look on the IGI for further births or christenings attributed to william-hannah
hoping that some of the above children would show up
unfortunately no other children came up.

[casalguidi]

I notice, from some of your other posts that Sarah's father, William Mitchell MOORE, sailed from ireland to Australia in 1840 ................... did the rest of the family go with him or should his wife and children still be around for the census ie. 1841+?  Perhaps the family moved around a great deal due to him being in the army

What was your source for knowing that Sarah existed if she doesn't turn up later on?

Casalguidi

[Stevie b]

Hi Casalguidi

Sarah appears in the Parish Records for St Marys, Chatham (see photo attached).

I'm not sure if she did go to Tasmania with the family or not, her two next eldest brothers Daniel & Francis are traceable as they enlisted in their father Williams regiment the 96th Foot.

The family returned to England late 1851 so do not appear until the 1861 census but no sign of Sarah in this, or any following census. No mention of Sarah in any family wills either, she just vanishes.


Steve

[Stevie b]

Hi wozzle

I know that most of the family went to Tasmania in 1840 but Sarah is a mystery. No trace that I can find, apart from her baptism.

But thanks for looking.

Steve

[Josephine]

Steve,

CityArk has burial registers for St. Mary the Virgin Church, Chatham, Kent:

http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/ 

If that is Sarah in the 1841 census, I would start looking through the burial registers the day after the census was taken. 

If that is not her family in 1841, I would start looking the day she was baptized.

This is assuming that you have a ship's list containing the names of the rest of the family en route to Tasmania and then back to England and that neither shows Sarah.

If Sarah might have accompanied her family to Tasmania, I would look for her death there, as well.

If she was born in 1831, she would have been 20 in 1851 when her family returned to England.  Perhaps she married and stayed in Tasmania? 

It's hard to know what to suggest first because I don't know what you've ruled out.

Good luck.
Josephine