Sarah Ann Gubby – Sussex People

Part of the Ingram-Green family tree (Great-great-grandmother)

Family background and early life

Sarah Ann Gubby was born at Rotherhithe in Surrey in early 1807. She was the youngest of nine children born to Thomas Gubby (1758–1839), a timber dealer, and Elizabeth Lee (1766–1845), who were married at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe on 22 May 1785. Sarah was baptised at the same church where her parents were married, on 11 February 1807.

Marriage and children

On 3 October 1828, 21-year old Sarah married William Moss (aged 25) at All Saints Church in his home village of Cressing, near Braintree in Essex.

The couple’s first child, Sarah Ann was baptised on 19 July 1829 but died at just two years old and was buried on 25 September 1831. Seven months later, a second daughter was born, who was also named Sarah Ann, and was baptised on 6 May 1832.

A further seven children followed over the next 19 years

John, born 8 September 1834, baptised 5 October 1834

William Thomas, baptised 29 July 1838

Thomas William, baptised 7 March 1841

Mary Ann, baptised 20 February 1842, buried 6 March 1842

Emily, baptised 16 July 1843

Mark James, baptised 20 September 1846

Alfred George, born 12 June 1851, baptised 13 July 1851

All the children were baptised at All Saints Church, Cressing.

At the first national census on 6 June 1841, the family’s address was recorded as “cottage on Braintree road”, Cressing. William, aged 38, was employed as an agricultural labourer. With him were Sarah, aged 34, and their oldest four children, including 4-month old Thomas; also living in the same cottage were William’s brother, 43-year old John and his wife, Sarah.

Ten years later, the family were recorded at Witham Road, Cressing. The eldest daughter, Sarah Ann was no longer living at home but working as a “house servant” for Henry Robinson, a farm bailiff and his wife, Harriett, at Mayland, 20 miles south of Cressing.

William died at Cressing on 2 June 1871, aged 68.

Sarah survived her husband by 20 years. At the 1881 census, she was living with her eldest daughter, Sarah Ann Barber, a draper, at Denmark Terrace in East Ham, Essex. Now aged 74, she was described as “of independent means”.

Ten years later, she was now living with her daughter, Emily (now married to Shadrach Joslin) and their family, at “Fairview Villas”, Barking Road, East Ham.

Sarah died on 3 March 1892 and was buried alongside her husband at All Saints Church, Cressing on 7 April 1892.

Sources

Ancestry.co.uk:

1841 England Census

1851 England Census

1861 England Census

1871 England Census

1881 England Census

1891 England Census

Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918

Essex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1994

Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935