Sarah Westwood

Brief Life History of Sarah

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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Family Time Line

Thomas Pledger
1795–1873
Sarah Westwood
1803–1877
Marriage: 19 March 1821
Elfred Pledger
1822–
Seagar Pledger
1824–
Emma Pledger
1826–
Martha Pledger
1829–
Isaac Pledger
1830–1919
William Pledger
1832–1841
John Pledger
1835–1861
Elizabeth Pledger
1836–1840
George Pledger
1836–1841

Sources (25)

  • Sarah Hedges in household of Thomas Hedges, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
  • Sarah, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Sarah Westwood, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

World Events (6)

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

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).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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