When Sarah Elizabeth HEATH was born in 1892, in Horton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Mayer Heath, was 31 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Pyatt, was 31. She married Abner Sheldon in 1926, in New Zealand. She died on 1 September 1959, in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 67, and was buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(on the) heath’ (Middle English he(a)th, Old English hǣth) or else a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. The same word also denoted heather, the characteristic plant of heathland areas. This surname has also been established in Dublin, Ireland, since the late 16th century.
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