Name: Sarah Hutchings
Burial Number: 0311
Gender: Female
Occupation: Gamekeeper's wife
Born: 22/1/1847
Died: 12/02/1899
Buried: 16/02/1899
Story
Sarah was born in Ferring, Sussex, the daughter of John and Sarah. She was baptised at St Andrew’s, Ferring on 28th February 1847. The family worked on a local farm, the eldest boys leaving school at the age of 10 to join their father. In the Spring of 1867, Sarah married John Hutchings, a gamekeeper from the village of Merston near Oving, Sussex. John found work on the Wiston estate and the couple moved into a cottage on the Steyning Road. The couple had no children. By 1881, John and Sarah had moved to Greenham Common in Berkshire where John worked for Lloyd Baxendale Esq, Lord of the Manor of Crookham. Mr Baxendale lived at Greenham Lodge by the Common and John was employed as his gamekeeper. The couple later moved back to Worthing, living in one of the nursery workers cottages in Wallace Lane (Avenue). They shared the cottage with the Hazell family and two lodgers making eleven occupants in all. (Percy Hazell is also buried at Heene). Sarah died on 12th February 1899. No probate.
John moved to Tarring Road, living with a nephew before moving in with his niece and her family in Wallace Lane. He died in East Preston workhouse in 1924 and was buried at Broadwater Cemetery, Worthing.
Researcher: Carol Sullivan
The Grave
Location in Cemetery
Area: NWS Row: 6 Plot: 11
Exact Location (what3words): trap.edge.plank
Ashes or Urn: Unknown
Headstone
Description:
No description of the headstone has been added.
Inscription:
In loving memory of Sarah wife of John Hutchings who died Febry 12th 1899 aged 52 years "Rest in the Lord"
Further Information
Birth
Name: Sarah Hutchings
Gender: Female
Born: 22/1/1847
Town: Ferring
County: Sussex
Country: England
Marriage
Maiden Name:Miles
Marriage Date: //1867
Spouse First Name: John
Spouse Last Name: Hutchings
Town of Marriage: Ferring
County of Marriage: Sussex
Country of Marriage: England
Information at Death
Date of Death: 12/02/1899
Cause of death: Unknown
Address line 1: 5
Address line 2: Wallace Cottages
Address line 3: Wallace Lane
Town: Worthing
County: Sussex
Country: England
Obituary
No obituary has been entered.
Personal Effects
Money left to others: No value recorded
Current value of effects: Not calculated
Census Information
1851
North Barn, Ferring, Sussex
John aged 41, ag lab. Sarah aged 36. Ann aged 16. George aged 14, ag lab. Edwin aged 11, ag lab. Hannah aged 9. John aged 7. Sarah aged 4. Jesse aged 1.
1861
North Barn Cottages, Ferring, Sussex.
John aged 51, ag lab. Sarah aged 48. George aged 24, plate layer. Edwin aged 21, ag lab. John aged 17, ag lab. Sarah aged 14. Jesse aged 12. Eli aged 9. Henry aged 7. Alfred aged 3.
1871
Polecats Cottage, Steyning Road, Wiston, Sussex.
John aged 28, gamekeeper. Sarah aged 24. Alice Stafford aged 5, visitor. William Bennett aged 79, widower, lodger, ag lab.
Sharing the house with William Tugnutt, ag lab and his wife Ann.
1881
The Common Cottage, Greenham, Berks.
John aged 37, gamekeeper. Sarah aged 33. John Glass aged 40, lodger, superannuated police constable.
1891
5 Wallace Cottages, Wallace Lane, Worthing, Sussex
John aged 48, market gardener. Sarah aged 44. Emily Miles aged 21, niece, domestic servant. Herbert Garner aged 20, lodger, gardener. Frederick Venus aged 19, lodger, gardener.
Sharing the cottage with the Hazell family (11 occupants in total).
