When Sarah Watts was born on 26 December 1831, in Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Watts, was 25 and her mother, Esther Smallbones, was 22. She married William Mead on 19 April 1849, in Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Eggington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died in 1874, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 43.
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