When Sarah Westwood was born on 9 February 1803, in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Beverly Westwood, was 27 and her mother, Ann Moore, was 26. She married Thomas Pledger on 19 March 1821, in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in May 1877, in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
English: topographic name habitational name for someone who lived ‘by the west wood’ (Middle English west + wode), or who came from any of numerous places called Westwood (from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’), such as those in Kent, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, or Worcestershire.
History: William Westwood was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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