Sarah Horrocks

• Birth Notes

  Aged 27 in 1851, born Bury
  
  Sarah was a minor when she married William

• Death Notes

  Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1856
  MATHER    Sarah    32    Tonge with Haulgh    TWH/6/42
  
  Bolton Evening News, Saturday, 16 Aug 1856.
  
  SUICIDE OF A WOMAN BY DROWNING.- An inquest was held on Thursday evening, before the borough coroner, on the body of Sarah Mather, of Spaw-lane, widow, aged 32 years, who committed suicide by drowning herself in the canal near the Haulgh bridge on Wednesday morning, where she was found standing upright, the hair of her head being just visible above the water, by a young man named James Riley, a blacksmith, who was passing the bridge about seven o`clock the same morning. He immediately procured assistance and the deceased was got out, but life was extinct. It appeared that her husband died about ten years ago, since which time she had had two illegitimate children by one man and had latterly commenced keeping company with another. She resided with her parents in Spaw-lane, who quarrelled with her respecting her conduct, and on Monday she struck her mother. On Tuesday, she left home, taking her two children with her, and she went with them to the house of a person named Taylor, near the Britannia, and slept there that night. She left about six o`clock on Wednesday morning, apparently to go to her work in the mill, and was seen in White lion-brow, in the vicinity of her work, soon after six, but at seven she was found drowned under the circumstances detailed above, The jury returned a verdict of "Self drowning".