Sarah Fairy c 1845 Ellington

[Gillg]

Sarah appears in the 1851 Ellington census age 5 with her parents David & Mary Fairy.  In 1861 she is no longer living with her parents.

Can you find her, please?  Alternative spellings could be Fairey, Farey or even Feary.  She was born in Ellington.

I'm also looking for her birth record and so far have only found a Sarah Farey born Dec Q 1845 Huntingdon Vol 14 Page 192.  I am discounting the Sarah A Fairey born 1846 Huntingdon who appears on Camdex, as I don't believe my Sarah had a middle name. 

The various marriage records under her name around the right time  (to Groot, Gould or Barwell) don't appear to be hers, as they are already "spoken for".  I don't know if she married or died young, so any information would help.

Here's hoping 

Gillg

[Tati]

Hi Gillg,

1861
RG9/983 43 23
Kimbolton, Hunts
Ivy House
Sarah Fairey, serv, 15, General servant, b. Ellington 
 
in the household of John Horsford, Farmer 130 acres

 

[Tati]

I believe this is her in 1881:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&indiv=try&h=7449988

The 1891 census shows the same family with Mary Fairy, 69, mother in law.

(In 1901, the family are at Hampstead, London)

[Gillg]

Tati

I'm struggling to find a marriage of Sarah and William - nothing on FreeBMD or Camdex that I can see, but with Mary Fairy as mother-in-law this seems pretty conclusive.  Alconbury is interesting, too, as one of Sarah's sister's lived there.

So now we have Sarah's family from 1851 to 1891, thanks to you, with the exception of 1871.  I have her parents David & Mary in 51, 61 & 71 in Ellington along with various of their 10 daughters.  In 1881 David is living in Abbotts Ripton with his daughter Jane and visiting grandson (and her nephew) Ernest Mayes and Mary is visiting another daughter Rachel (Mayes, mother of Ernest) in Wilden, Beds.  David died in 1887, not sure about Mary, though there is a death of 71 year old Mary Fairey in Thrapston Mar Q 1894, who is nearly the right age.

Thanks very much, Tati.  That's a great help.

Gillg

p.s. Hampstead in 1901?  Were they visiting?  They would seem to be rather old to be making a career move.  Visiting daughter Maud, perhaps?

p.p.s. It was a career move - just looked and found William is a Bricklayer's Labourer, poor chap!

[Tati]

1871
RG10/1525 91 6
Ellington
William Peach, head, 30, Ag lab, b. Wood Newton
Sarah, wife, 25, b. Ellington
Jane Ann, dau, 5, scholar, b. Wood Newton
Elizabeth, dau, 3, scholar, b. do.
Emily, dau, 2, b. Ellington

[Tati]

1901
RG13/126 64 55
Hampstead, London
6 Linstead St
2 rooms occupied
William Peach, head, 61, Bricklayer's Labourer, b. Northants Wood Newton
Sarah, wife, 55, b. Hunts Ellington
John W, son, 15, Carman, b. Northants Yaxley

1891
RG12/1235 46 5
Sawtry St Judith, Huntingdonshire
(can't read address)
William Peach, head, 50, Ag lab, b. Nothants Water Newton
Sarah, wife, 45, b. Hunts Ellington
Mary Fairey, mother in law, wid, 69, b. do.
Jane Seaby, boarder, 18, Ag lab, b. Sawtry

[Gillg]

Better and better, Tati. 

An intriguing fact has emerged from contact with another Fair(e)y researcher - William Peach appears to have been married twice, and the first time to Sarah Wright in Dec Q 1855 Huntingdon 3b/605.  A Sarah Peach died in Huntingdon June Q 1865 3b/164. 

Could it be that having one marriage cert with wife name Sarah on it, William decided to recycle it when he got together with Sarah Fairy?  Their daughter Maud Anne or Annie was born in Mar Q 1874 Huntungdon 3b/272, so if there was a marriage it should appear between 1865 and 1874.  There is a marriage for William Peach in Mar Q 1872, but it's to a Martha Mackness!

Thanks for helping, Tati.

Gillg

[Tati]

Marriage Dec 1864 Oundle
Sarah Fairey 3b 486 (mistranscribed on FreeBMD as 3b 196)

guess if there's a William Peach with the same reference! 

[Tati]

Are you sure William married in 1855? He would have been only 15