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Sarah Horrocks

Sarah was born in 1824 in Bury.¹

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

She died by commiting suicide, Drowned, at the age of 32 in 1856 in Tonge-with-Haulgh.²

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".

General Notes
- 26 Aug 1844, Sarah Horrocks, daughter of Haman Horrocks (a weaver) married William Mather.
  
  In 1851, Sarah Mather was a married woman living with Ralph Hall (as lodgers with Alice Robinson). It is probable this is Sarah Horrocks (who married William Mather in 1844). Sarah Horrocks is the correct age and was not with her husband William Mather in 1851. It appears Ralph left her for another woman and Sarah committed suicide:
  
  1856 Sarah Horrocks died by drowning. See inquest (with death details)

Occupation Details
- From 1851 Sarah's occupation was Piecer in Bolton.

Personal Timeline

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¹ 1851 UK Census
² News Clips