Sarah Ann LUCAS 1860-??

[Eyesee]

Sarah's birth was registered Jun qtr 1860 at Rye, baptised at Rye 25 July 1860, first child of James LUCAS and Mary Ann JARRETT, who married at Rye on 11 Sep 1859.

Can find her with her parents and LUCAS grandparents in Rye in 1861, but then she disappears. No death between then and 1871 in Rye or anywhere around there that would fit. There is a death for a Sarah LUCAS in Rye in 1877, but that is her grandmother, born Sarah RICHARDSON in Brede in 1814.

She only appears on a couple of trees on Ancestry, unlike her two younger siblings Henry/Harry Richardson LUCAS and Elizabeth LUCAS. Harry migrated to Toronto in Canada and is fairly well documented. Elizabeth married Albert Edward TURNER in 1887 and they are fairly well documented.

Hoping some fresh eyes can find Sarah.

Thanks
Ian C

[Eyesee]

Have also not been having much luck in finding deaths for the parents either, James and Mary Ann.

James is with his parents in Rye in 1871 with children Henry and Elizabeth, no wife. His occupation is mariner.

I believe he is in Durham in 1881 on board ship, and in Southampton in 1891.

They did have another child, James born march qtr 1866 West Ashford, same place as daughter Elizabeth in 1864. I believe this James was buried in Rye on 20 Sep 1866 aged 9mths.

Thanks
Ian C

[amondg]

Possible death.

Sarah Ann Lucas age 3. Registered East Ashford December quarter 1863 Vol 2a page 359

GRO Index you can get a PDF copy for £2.50
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The following year 1864 they are in West Ashford for Elizabeth 1864 and James 1866-1866 death recorded Rye.

There are no more children after 1866 and they are back in Rye for James burial, I expect Mary Ann
may have died after the birth of James.

[Eyesee]

Thanks amondg.

As Mary Ann wasn't in the 1871 census there is every chance she had died, although no sign of a death on GRO or FreeBMD, plus the census does not say James is widowed.

Ian C

[Milliepede]

When was Mary Ann born? 

There is a 31 year old Mary A who dies in Dec 1866 but you may have already ruled her out.

[mckha489]

There is an M.A.L. Age 32, married, domestic servant who is an inmate in Lewes Lunatic Asylum in 1871

[Eyesee]

Thanks mckha489 and Milliepede.

Mary Ann Jarrett was baptised 8 Jun 1838 at Rye. Birth registered there Jun qtr 1838, so would be 32 in 1871. The Mary Ann who died 1866 aged 31 I think would be too old.

Back then any mother that had problems after child birth or losing a child tended to get put in places like that.

As I said earlier James was married in 1871, not widowed.

Wonder if there was a M.A.L. in the same place in 1881 and 1891, as James was still married in those censuses as well.

Ian C

[mckha489]

Yes for 1881 age 41

Full address is
Sussex Co Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath, Wivelsfield, Lewes, Sussex, England

1891 not so obvious.
There is an M.L. Also a domestic servant. But she is a widow age 58