Sarah Tavinder (1838-1908)

baptised at North Nibley Tabernacle

At the time of the 1841 Census, Sarah was living in the Howley area of the parish with her brother and sister, Elizabeth and Ephriam. An older sister, Mary, was transported to Tasmania for 7 years in the same year. Her father William was a labourer. A decade later, the family were living in Bradley Green, in Wotton under Edge, a mile or so away. Elizabeth had left the household, as she had married Henry Cole in 1848.

In 1859, Sarah, a dressmaker, married James McLoudry, a brush maker, at St Mary’s in Wotton under Edge. Oddly, in the 1861, Sarah’s widowed mother Lois, now a pauper, was living at Bradley Green with Ephraim and Sarah, who is recorded as being married, but has kept her old surname.

In 1862, Sarah’s husband assaulted Lois, and was sentenced to hard labour for one month.

Lois died in 1869.

Then – nothing, until Sarah McLoudry is recorded as dying in 1908. But this Sarah was born in 1847. So Sarah remains a mystery.