Zij heeft/had een relatie met Thomas DODGE.
Kind(eren):
No burial has been found for Thomas Dodge, but it is clear that he had died at the relatively young age of 42, leaving Sarah with several small children, the youngest of whom was probably less than a year old. She paid land tax again the following year:
1727: Rents Money to Assessed Widow Dodge for Mrs Hawksworth 6/- 1 5/6 Rate: 4/3 in the pound.
She must have found it hard to cope, though, and either returned to her home parish at some point or had to prove her legal settlement parish in order to stay in Ticehurst as there is a settlement certificate in the records of Hawkhurst parish, dated 5th April 1729, for Sarah Dodge and her children David, Arthur, Richard and Mary which suggests that, on her move back to Hawkhurst, the parish worthies feared that she might become a burden on them, and needed reassurance that the Ticehurst officials would accept liability for her and her family if need be:
We John Ollive William Watson Thomas Adds and Robert Noakes Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Tisehurst in the County of Sussex aforesaid do hereby own and acknowledge Sarah Dodge and David, Arthur, Richard and Mary her children to be inhabitants legally settled in the Parish of Tisehurst aforesaid....
After that, it is unclear what happened to her. A marriage took place in Ticehurst between John Martin and Sarah Dodge on 17th October 1731, and a burial of a Sarah Dodge took place in the same parish on 16th January 1739. However, it is impossible to tell which entry refers to the mother and which to the daughter. If it was Sarah junior married John Martin, she was only 17, which is young but feasible; however, it is equally feasible that Sarah senior would wish to remarry to provide
security for herself and her children
SOURCE: http://www.genealogycrank.co.uk/pdfs/from_shropshire_to_the_weald_part_3.pdf
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