Sarah Emberry was born around 1828 in Silverton, Devon, to John Emberry (about 32), a cordwainer (a shoemaker), and Mary Emberry (nee Arscott) (about 35), a weaver and laundress.
Sarah was baptised on 11th January 1829 in Silverton.
It seems Sarah was the second of four children (two sons and two daughters):
- John 1827 - 1828 (15 months old)
- Sarah 1828 -
- Mary Ann 1831 -
- Thomas 1834 -
A few months before Sarah was born, her older brother John passed away, aged only fifteen months old.
Sarah may have had other older siblings who were not baptised or who did not survive, as her parents married a decade before the birth of their first known child John.
In the early 1830's, young Sarah and her family moved about four miles south from Silverton to Brampford Speke, where Sarah's younger brother Thomas was baptised in 1834.
Sometime in the late 1830's, when Sarah was young, it seems her father John passed away.
I cannot find Sarah on the 1841 Census. She is no longer at home with her mother and younger brother back in Silverton. It was common for young teenagers of her rural working class to leave home to work and live on nearby farms as servants or apprenticeships. I imagine Sarah may have done so.
In Jul/Aug/Sep 1848, Sarah (about 20), a lacemaker, married William Wright (about 27), a boot and shoe maker, in Exeter. The couple settled in William's native Exeter.
Sarah and William had eight children (six sons and two daughters):
- Thomas William 1849 -
- Henry John 1851 -
- Frederick Emberry 1854 -
- Ellen 1857 -
- Walter Charles 1861 -
- Alfred Frank 1864 -
- Francis 'Frank' George 1868 -
- Bessie 1870 -
1851 Census:
In the mid 1850's, Sarah and her family moved from Coombe Street to Sun Street.
By the 1861 Census, Sarah's husband William had had a change of occupation to a mason's labourer.
1861 Census:
In the late 1860's, Sarah and her family moved from Sun Street to Prospect Place.
Meanwhile, Sarah's husband William found new work again, now as a labourer in an iron factory.
1871 Census:
On 24th June 1880, when Sarah was fifty-two, her husband William passed away, aged fifty-nine, at their home at Prospect Place.
1881 Census:
Widowed, Sarah found work as an outdoor servant and a laundress.
Sometime in the 1880s, Sarah and her children moved from 11 to 3 Prospect Place.
1891 Census:
Sometime in the 1890s, Sarah, her children all grown up, moved from Prospect Place to 4 Teigh Place. Her son Frank and his young family lived only two doors down at 6 Teigh Place.
1901 Census:
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| Photograph of Sarah in old age (centre) with most of her adult children, c 1900 Standing left to right: Alfred, Walter, Frank and Frederick Sitting left to right: Thomas, Sarah and either Ellen or Thomas' wife Mary |
Sarah passed away, aged 78, on 16th January 1907, at her home at Teigh Place.
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