Sarah Clements

c1776-1851

Sarah was baptised on the 10^th November 1776 in Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Samuel and Lydia Purdue (nee Middleton) who were married on the 17^th January 1775, at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

Sarah’s siblings were (all baptised at St Nicolas, Newbury):

Samuel, baptised 26^th July 1778

Elizabeth, baptised 5^th April 1780

Mary, baptised 29^th July 1784

Frances West, baptised 15^th June 1787

Sophia, baptised 13^th April 1791

Harriet, baptised 11^th March 1794

William, baptised 30^th March 1798

Sarah married Joshua Clements on the 10^th December 1795, at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

(Joshua was baptised in Kingsclere, Hampshire, on the 11^th November 1774, the son of Joshua (a Fellmonger) and Hannah Clements (nee Farmer) who were married in Kingsclere in 1774.)

Joshua and Sarah had the following children (Baptisms at St Nicolas Newbury):

Harriot baptised 30^th March 1798

William born 1^st May 1799, baptised 21^st July 1799

John born 24^th March 1800, baptised 4^th January 1801

Sarah born 8^th June 1802, baptised 5^th September 1802

James born 1^st March 1804, baptised 15^th April 1804                                                    

Elizabeth born 14^th October 1805, baptised 10^th November 1805

Joshua born 11^th April 1808, baptised 12^th June 1808

Sophia born 26^th November 1810, baptised 30^th December 1810

Charlotte baptised 9^th May 1813 (Dad recorded as a Glover)

Ann baptised 10^th March 1816 (Dad recorded as a Glover)

In 1815 Joshua (40), was recorded as a Breeches Maker, living in Union Court, on the west side of Northbrook Street, Newbury, with Sarah (38) and their children, William (16), James (10), Elizabeth (8), Joshua (6), Sophia (4) and Charlotte (2).

Joshua died aged 53 in 1827, he was buried on the 10^th December at St Nicolas, Newbury.

The 1841 census records Sarah (65) and her granddaughter Martha Clements (7), living in Church Almshouses, Newbury. (Martha was the daughter of her widowed son John and his wife Martha (nee Sheppard) who were married in 1830 in Tilehurst)

Sarah died aged 74 in 1851, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th March.

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