CFHS code : HT535
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : In heavenly love abiding our beloved mother SARAH ELIZABETH SARLL d June 29th 1947 The courage of Faith The beauty of Holiness The sanctity of sacrifice all were hers
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones/Urn
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.20207, 0.13737229 – click here for location
Monument
This headstone set within kerbstones stands 5 rows east of the central path in the parish of Holy Trinity. In 2024 a large weeping Holly tree stood between the path and the monument. The carved inscription has been hidden by ivy for many years. The ivy has now died and the monument cleared. The headstone has a small cross carved into the top. The inscription is legible but worn. The kerbs and flower holder still in place.
Inscription
In heavenly love abiding our beloved mother SARAH ELIZABETH SARLL who passed on June 29th 1947
The courage of Faith The beauty of Holiness
The sanctity of Sacrifice all were hers.
Sarah Elizabeth Sarll (née Wright) (10 January 1863 – 29 June 1947)
Sarah was born in Wood End, Ardeley near Stevenage,Hertfordshire and was the daughter of James and Eleanor. She was baptised on 15 February 1863 and grew up at High Trees Farm, Wood End where her father was a farmer of 81 acres employing three men and a boy to help work his land (1871). Aged 18 she was lodging at Albert Street in Stevenage and working as an apprentice dressmaker to Melina and Isabel Cooke before returning to live with her parents at High Trees Farm (1881). She married George Frederick Sarll (1857-1919) in 1892 and they had seven children: George Wright (1894-1959), William James (1895-1937), Eleanor Mary (1896-1988), Harry Victor (1897-1983), Olive Elizabeth (1902-2002), Hilda (1904-1994) and one more child who died as an infant.
The family lived in Walkern, two miles outside Stevenage and George worked as a brewer’s traveller (sales representative). By 1911 they had moved to Walsworth Road in Hitchin, where he ran a beer and tabacco shop. Sarah was widowed in 1919 and then moved to Cambridge where she ran a Lodging House. In 1939 she was living at 1 Malcolm Street and was documented as being a retired lodging house keeper. She died at Malcolm Street aged 84 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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