Reeve, Sarah

Summary

Father: Jonah Reeve
Mother: Elizabeth Houston

Birth: 23 Nov 1775
Birth Source: Baptismal Record

Death: c23 Jun 1817
Death Source: Burial

Spouse1: Fisher Unwin, m. 11 Mar 1800, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, London

Narrative

Children of Fisher Unwin and Sarah Reeve:

1. Henry Fisher Unwin, b. 14 Apr 1801
2. Jonah-Stephen Unwin, b. 22 Jan 1804
3. Sarah Reeve Unwin, b. 21 Jan 1806
4. Elizabeth Houston Unwin, b. 19 Mar 1808
5. Rebekah Unwin, b. 8 Aug 1809
6. Emma Unwin, b. 26 Sep 1813
7. Ruth Anna Unwin, b. 10 May 1817

Sarah's birth and baptism were also recorded in Bocking Independent Registers:
Sarah Reeve, Daughter of Jonah Reeve, Grocer and of Elizabeth his Wife, of the Parish of Bocking in the Couty of Essex (born on the Twenty third Day of November 1775) was baptized on the twenty second day of December 1775 By the Revd Mr Peyto of Coggeshall (Piece 1500, folio 13)

The will of her mother Elizabeth mentions the "seven children of my late daughter Sarah Unwin." Her father's will mentions his son-in-law Fisher Unwin. This matches the marriage record for Sarha Reeve Fisher Unwin of Blackmotley in the County of Essex, Batchelor, to Sarah Reeve of "this Parish" spinster who were married by license 11 Mar 1800 at St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

Children's births and baptisms are listed in Bocking Independent Registers.

From the Bocking Independent Register:

• Sarah Unwin wife of Fisher Unwin of the Parish of Black Notley in the County of Essex age 41 years was buried in the Protestant Disenters Burying Ground in Bocking on the 24th day of June 1817 by me Thomas Craig
• Fisher Unwin of the Parish of Black Notley in the County of Essex aged 43 years was interred in the Protestant Dissenters Burying Ground Bocking on the 2d Day of Decr 1819 by Thos Craig (Piece 1501, folio 110)

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          RG4, Essex Independent Registers, Piece 1500 (Bocking, 1738-1794), folios 13
Marriage1:   London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 (Ancestry), Southward, St. George the Martyr, 1780-1812, p181
Burial:       RG4, Essex Independent Registers, Piece 1501 (Bocking, 1792-1838), folio 108

RG4, Essex Independent Registers, Piece 1501 (Bocking, 1792-1838), folio 110