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Sarah Whitmore (abt. 1806)

Sarah Whitmore
Born about in Shearsby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

Sarah was baptised in Shearsby, Leicestershire on 23 March 1806 [1][2]. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Whitmore.

In 1832 she gave birth to an illegitimate son, Henry [3].

On 17 April 1841 she was charged at the Lutterworth Petty Sessions with being a rogue and a vagabond by the Shearsby parish officers. [4]. They claimed that she was 'a woman of loose character, and had been convicted before as a disorderly person, in leaving her children chargeable to the parish'. She was committed to the House of Correction for three months.

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Sarah Whitmore was born in Leicestershire, England.
This profile is part of the Shearsby, Leicestershire One Place Study.

Sources

  1. Leicestershire : Shearsby : St Mary Magdalen : Bishop's Transcript : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5f5cd619f493fd054300712d : viewed 25 Oct 2022) baptism Sarah Whitmore 23 Mar 1806
  2. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPC8-YBM : 19 March 2020), Sarah Whitmore, 1806.
  3. Leicestershire : Shearsby : St Mary Magdalen : Bishop's Transcript : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5f5cc986f493fd53ec478ce8 : viewed 25 Oct 2022) baptism Henry 15 Apr 1832
  4. "Multiple News Items." Leicester Chronicle, 24 Apr. 1841. British Library Newspapers, link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3213071448/BNCN?u=dmu&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=3b37ba09. [Online, academic login required] Accessed 16 Nov. 2022. Sarah Whitmore charged by the parish officers of Shearsby with being a rogue and a vagabond.




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