Sarah Young

Sarah Kershaw (1843-1922)

Parents: Sarah was the daughter of Abraham Kershaw (c1820-?) and Sarah Olderen (c1820-?). By 1872 her father was dead and her mother was still living, most likely in Somerville, New Jersey.

Birth: She was born in 1843 according to her marriage certificate.

Siblings: By 1850 the family was living in Manhattan and she appears in the census with the following siblings: Mary Kershaw (1835-?); Israel Kershaw (1840-?); Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) who was born in Glen Cove and married Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921); Ann Kershaw II (1847-?); and Peter Kershaw (1849-?). The family then moved to Somerville, New Jersey by 1865, when she married, and they show up in bank records again in Somerville in 1872.

First marriage: She married Matthew Williamson (1824-1884) around 1865. He was 19 years older then she was.

Somerville, New Jersey: In 1880 they were living in Somerville, New Jersey. Matthew was working as a butcher.

Children: Cornelius M. Williamson (1867-?); George Williamson (1869-1950); Ellen M. Williamson (1873-?); and Albert Dunn Williamson (1874-1943) who married Anna Mary George (1877-1968).

Death of husband: He died on March 20, 1884 in Bridgewater.

Second marriage: She married William W. Young (1817-?) on August 27, 1885 in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was 26 years older than she was.

Death: She died in 1922.

Burial: She was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, Union County, New Jersey. She is in the Morningside section and in lot 617. Buried with her is Carry who was buried on February 16, 1929; George Williamson who was buried on February 28, 1950; and Wallace Williamson who was buried on February 25, 1956. All had died in February. She is listed as "Sarah Williamson".

June Nicholls writes in 2010: Sarah died on February 17, 1922, at the home of her son, Albert Dunn Williamson of Garwood, NJ, who was my grandfather. Her death certificate lists her as Sarah Williamson as do cemetery records, and she is buried in a grave marked with a foot stone in the George Williamson plot in Fairview Cemetery, Westfield, NJ. Her death certificate shows her father as Chas Kershaw, which I interpreted to be Charles Kershaw, her age as 79 years and 1 month and her birthplace as Yonkers, NY. I have been searching in vain for years for Charles Kershaw. When I was a young girl in the late 1930's, I can remember my grandmother, who was the daughter-in-law of Sarah Williamson, reminiscing about Grandma Young, and I have assumed that Grandma Young was probably Sarah's mother, and that Young was her maiden name.