When Sarah Trenchard was born in 1853, in Hawkchurch, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Trenchard, was 33 and her mother, Mary Spencer, was 35. She married Richard Henry “Fred” Jackson on 31 January 1894, in Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Hawkchurch, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died in October 1901, in Bedminster, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 48, and was buried in Chadderton Cemetery, Chadderton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (southwestern; of Norman origin) and French: nickname from Old French trenche, a derivative of trenchier ‘to cut, hack, slice’ (compare Trench ) + the suffix -ard, for someone skilled in cutting, perhaps for a swordsman, butcher, or ditch-cutter.
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