Misc. Notes
Name from entry of daughter, Esther, in the Australian Royalty website, found in November 2023.
Year and place of birth, date and place of baptism, date and place of marriage, England census details when 30 years old, immigration details, Year and place of death, from Australian Royalty website, found in November 2023:
https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccor...I20443/Sarah-SquiresName: Sarah SquiresBirth: about 1812, Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
Marriage: To Thomas Peak, 27 July 1834 (aged 22 years), Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
Census: 6 June 1841, Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
Census Text: Counted were:
- Thomas Peak, 30, agricultural labourer
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Sarah Peak, 30
- Joseph Peak, 11
- Elizabeth Peak, 8
- Sarah Peak, 6
- Esther Peak, 3
- Thomas Peak, 5 months
Immigration: November 1849 (aged 37 years), Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Immigration Text: Assisted immigrants who arrived in NSW aboard the ship Una in Nov 1849:
- Peak, Thomas, 37, farm labourer, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, son of Thomas and Sarah, father living at Yellan, Church of England, could not read or write, no relatives in the colony
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Peak, Sarah, 37, farm servant, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, daughter of Robert and Sarah Squires, mother living at Yellen, Baptist, could not read or write, no relatives in the colony
- Peak, Sarah Ann, 14, lace maker, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, Baptist, could read and write
- Peak, Esther, 11, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, Baptist, could read and write
- Peak, Thomas, 9, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, Baptist, could read
- Peak, Mary Ann, infant, a native of Yellen, Huntingdon, Baptist, could not read or write
Death: 28 February 1858 (aged 46 years), Maitland, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia
Inquest into Death: Published in the "Empire" (Sydney) Thu 4 Mar 1858:
DEATH FROM BURNING. - An inquest was held yesterday at the home of Thomas Peek of Oswald, touching the death of Sarah, his wife, lying there dead. The husband deposed that the deceased, who was 48 years old, was on the 1st December 1857, reaping in his field, when she went to take the kettle off the fire that was in the field. Whilst doing so he heard a shout, and, looking round, saw his wife on fire: he tried to put it out, and cut off her clothes, and she managed to walk home, when he put her to bed. Next day C.r Wigan attended her and continued to do so until within four weeks of her death, when Mr. Hartigan succeeded him. She died on Sunday 28th February at 8.30 a.m. Mr. Stratford Hartigan, a medical practitioner, of Black Creek, deposed that he was called on the 27th January to see the deceased, who had an extensive burn from the loins to the centre of each thigh; the burns were healing, but discharged copiously. The woman was emaciated, weak, and almost pulseless, and suffered also from an abscess in the uterus, which induced great agony. Besides this she had diarrhoea of long standing. He continued to attend her till she died. The burns, combined with the disease of the womb, no doubt caused death by producing diarrhoea. The jury returned a verdict to that effect.