When Sarah Kershaw was born in 1799, in Clayton, Yorkshire, England, her father, Jacob Kershaw, was 23 and her mother, Mary Schofield, was 11796. She married Joseph Robertshaw on 9 August 1819, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Manningham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died in November 1854, in Clayton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 55, and was buried in Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Clayton by Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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