Friday, October 23, 2015

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 19.10.2015 - S stands for...

My 4th Great Grandmother Sarah, arrived Free in Australia on 28th June 1790, aged 18 years.
225 years ago.  Painting by Joseph Backler is in the State Library of NSW.

When Sarah Smith was born on December 3, 1772, in Holborn, Middlesex, her father, William, was 20 and her mother, Esther, was 17. She married John Fredrick Cobcroft in 1795 in Wilberforce, New South Wales. They had 10 children in 22 years. She died on May 31, 1857, in Wilberforce, New South Wales, having lived a long life of 84 years.

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