She therefore appeared in the first UK Census in 1841 where she lived at East Street in East Stonehouse with her parents and her 6 remaining siblings.
By 1851 the family were still in East Stonehouse and, according to Kelly's Directory in 1852, still in East Street. At that point she is living with her parents and 3 siblings together with her maternal grandmother. In 1861 the residence is just shown as Plymouth when only 1 other sibling remained with her and her parents.
Although not married, Sarah had her first child Frederick Robert on 24 October 1863 at 10 Church Street in Stoke Damerel. It is also known that his birth took place at 2.30pm as it was closely followed 10 minutes later by his twin sister Bessie although she sadly died 20 months later. Things were obviously not going well for Sarah as her next son Alfred John was born in Borough Prison in Plymouth on 22 April 1867 and he died just 5 months later in Plymouth Workhouse.
In the 1871 Census her first son Frederick is living with his grandparents Robert and Mary in Factory Lane in Ermington just outside Plymouth whilst Sarah lived alone in Green Street, Plymouth. Historically there were some alms houses in this street along with a Mineral Water manufacturer, although Sarah is described as a shirt maker at the time..
By 1881 Sarah was still unmarried and living at Keaton, Ugborough although by 1891 she had moved in with her sister Anna at 3 Castle View in Totnes. In 1894 on 6 October in the Australian Town and Country Journal published in New South Wales under "Long Lost Relative" there appeared the following posting: "Sarah longs for news of her brother Samuel who moved into different diggings in South Australia and had not been heard from since he was in Alexandria 10 years before." She was therefore unaware that Samuel had died in 1885 in the District of Gaffneys Creek, a mining locality in Victoria, and was subsequently buried in Enoch's Point Cemetery in Alexandria, County Anglesea in the state of Victoria in Australia seemingly also unmarried. Sadly Sarah's firstborn son Frederick also died at the end of that year.
in 1901 Sarah is again recorded as being a shirt maker on her own account but is still living with Anna at a cottage in Totnes. However Sarah was to die on 13 December 1903 sadly at the County Asylum in Exminster in Devon having suffered from colitis for 8 weeks. At death she was described as a Servant from Totnes and her burial took place in Exminster on 19 December.
A life of 66 years which seemingly encompassed so many difficulties and hardships and in the end even saw her surviving longer than each of her 3 children.
