Sarah Harriet (Slater) Gorton (abt. 1849 - 1886)

Born about 1849 in Toft, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 2 Jun 1886 at about age 37 in Portland, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Sarah Harriet Slater was born around about 1848-1851, most likely in Cambridgeshire, England. She is the daughter of George Pung Slater and Sarah Cambridge.

1851 CENSUS - West Street, Village of Comberton, Cambridgeshire. Sarah Harriet Slater is two years old, born Toft, Cambridgeshire. Her father, George Pung Slater, is a 31-year-old Baker, employing one boy. He was born Haverhill, Suffolk. Her mother, Sarah, is shown as 33, born Meldreth, Cambs. On the next page of the enumeration schedule are Sarah, 2, her sister, Agnes, 1, born Comberton, and a House Servant, 14-year-old Lydia Collett. ^[1]

By 1854, they are on the other side of the world. There the deaths of Sarah's mother and a new baby brother are registered in the Colony of Victoria. The following year, her father married a widow and their family continued to expand.

In 1870, still in Victoria, Sarah married Thomas Gorton ^[2]

The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic) Saturday 13 August 1870 p 26

MARRIAGES

GORTON—SLATER.—On 17th June, at Trinity Church, Bacchus Marsh, by the Rev. J. Garlick, Mr. Thomas Gorton, farmer, to Sarah Harriet, second daughter of Mr. G. P. Slater, farmer, all of Melton, and niece to Mrs. Geo. Rowe, of Richmond. Cambridge papers please copy. ^[3]

BDM Vic records 6 children between 1871 and 1884, being Sarah Agnes, Louisa Eliz, Annie Helena, George Thomas, Sarah Frances and Eva Grace. George Thomas died in 1953.

Sarah Harriet Gorton passed away in 1886. Her death was registered Portland, Colony of Victoria, with her age recorded as 35 years, and her parents George (no surname given) and mother as Sarah Cambridge, her husband being Thomas Gorton. ^[4]

The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Friday 4 June 1886 p 1

DEATHS

GORTON.— On the 2nd June, at her residence, Portland, Sarah Harriet, wife of Thomas Gorton, second daughter of the late G. P. Slater, Swan-street, Richmond, aged 38 years. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ 1851 CENSUS - HO107; Piece: 1759; Folio: 781; Page: 10 & 11; GSU roll: 193649-193650 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census
2. ↑ BDM Vic marriage cert 1212/1870, h Thomas GORTON, w Sarah Harriet SLATER.
3. ↑ 1870 'Family Notices', The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), 13 August, p. 26. , viewed 21 Feb 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138066337
4. ↑ Department of Justice, Victoria Family history search :
   1886 DEATH REG, Sarah Harrt GORTON, reg 6786/1886
5. ↑ 1886 'Family Notices', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 4 June, p. 1. , viewed 21 Feb 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190843550