Sarah (Barlow) Greaves (1794 - bef. 1824)

Born 18 Mar 1794 in Shelton, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Greaves — married 1 Jan 1815 in Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

Died before 1 Nov 1824 before age 30 in Cheadle, Staffordshire, , England [uncertain]

Biography

Sarah (Barlow) Greaves was born in Staffordshire, England.

Baptism: Sarah, daughter of Charles and Esther Barlow of Shelton, was born 18 Mar 1794 and baptized on 23 Mar 1794 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Hanley, Staffordshire, England.^[1]

Marriage: Sarah Barlow and Samuel Greaves were married on 16 Jan 1815 at St. Peter ad Vincula Parish, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England.^[2]

Children: Sarah gave birth to four daughters: Ellen in 1816, Eliza in 1818, Priscilla in 1821, and Hannah in 1824. Sarah died soon after giving birth to Hannah, who only lived for about 4 months until dying in 1825.

Burial: Sarah Greaves, age 31, was born in 1793 and died in 1824. She was the wife of Samuel Greaves. She was buried at St. Giles, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, UK on 19 Nov 1824.^[3]

Stoke-on-Trent: The story of the Staffordshire Potteries (apart from the beautiful pottery produced) has not often been told, and yet this area has a far richer character and a more distinctive heritage than many better known parts of Britain. Here a skilled and industrious workforce, located in an isolated rural backwater and often in wretched conditions working with the simplest of tools and raw materials, made objects of great beauty and worth and won a worldwide reputation for themselves and their native area which still continues today. The Potteries may look like one long sprawling conurbation, with little to distinguish one town centre from another, but the core of Burslem still survives, as do those of Tunstall, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Longton and, to a lesser extent, Fenton, the town which Arnold Bennett did not use in his novels when he referred to 'the Five Towns'. [he preferred the sound of the phrase "five towns" rather that "six towns"] These towns had their rivalries, dialects and special characteristics, and each was surrounded by smaller satellite village communities which were gradually engulfed as the towns grew. In 1910 the Six Towns were unwillingly united to form one city called Stoke-on-Trent. The older borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, a mile or so to the west, retained its independence.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Hanley : St John the Evangelist : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5817f39fe93790eca334aeaa : viewed 20 Aug 2020) baptism Sar. Barlow 23 Mar 1794
2. ↑ "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLQ8-HGVG : 8 July 2020), Sarah Barlow and Samuel Greaves, 1815.
3. ↑ https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FBUR2%2F038521.Archive reference D3611/1/10. Page 92. Register type Burial. Record set Staffordshire Burials. Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records. Subcategory Parish Burials. Collections from England, Great Britain.
4. ↑ http://www.thepotteries.org/six_towns/index.htm

Research Notes

The baptism record has this added: "Notes: Unclear whether 16 or 18 March (birth date)."

Acknowledgement

This profile originated in a gedcom file from Lisa Lebeck, uploaded 23 Feb 2015.

This profile has been improved by a member of the England Project's Orphan Trail