Sarah Pitt ⁵⁶

   FamilySearch ID: LRD4-KQ6.

  General Notes:

'Sarah Spicer formerly Pitt' appears the registration of birth of her son, Henry. James married Sarah's sister Ann following her death in 1843. This is confirmed by the will of her father, William Pitt, in 1854. ⁶¹

  Events

• Census, 1841, Corsley. Wilshire, England. ^56,57 Email of 21 Nov 2004.

• Census: UK, 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹⁸⁷ William (age 30), Eliza (age 35), Elizabeth (2), William (8 months). Also in the household are Hannah Walls (15) and Ann Spicer (20). All were born in the same county.

• Census: UK, 1841, Warminster, Corsley, Wilshire, UK. ⁵⁸ With his wife Sarah, son Henry (2) and daughter Jane(1).

• Death: near Corsley church. Cause was a ruptured blood vessel, 13 Apr 1843, Corsley. Wilshire, England. ¹⁸³

• Named in will: of her father, 1854, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁶¹ "...my late daughter Sarah the first wife of the said James Spicer.." (Line 81)

Sarah married James Spicer, son of Robert Talbot Spicer and Sarah Rosanna Frizell, 1 Jun 1837 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England ⁵⁶.^,163 (James Spicer was born in 1808 in West Stafford, Dorset, England ¹⁶⁶, christened 11 Dec 1808 in West Stafford, Dorset, England,^167,168,169 died 29 Oct 1855 ^170,171 and was buried 5 Nov 1855 in East Stoke, Dorset, England ^172,173,174.)

  Marriage Notes:

George Spicer witness at marriage, assumed to be younger brother.
Why they married in Wimborne Minster is somewhat of a mystery although there is a connection: William Pitt owned a house on Holt Green there in 1838 and there is the family of John (38) and Mary Jenkins Pitt (36) who lived on King Street in 1841 with a large family. Married in 1823 in Wimborne (Ancestry database)
Exactly who John was is not determined, but likely another son of William Pitt and thereby a brother of Sarah possibly. The Jenkins surname is curious since in the 1861 census of Charles Besant there is a William Jenkins, age 5, grandson, who remained with the family for several decades.
John Pitt was born in Ringwood, Hants, per the 1861 census. John and Mary are also on the 1851 census at the same place, but the children are slightly different.