Sarah Alleyn/Bairstow

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After the death of her husband (Jacob), Sarah found employment as a nurse at the Adelaide Infirmary. For this work Sarah received 3pounds 5s a month as salary and five and a quarter pounds of meat. From Betty Witt (nee Wade)

1841 - widow of the Infirmary North Terrace Adelaide, married in Trinity Churchby License by Chas B. Howard M.A. Colonial Chaplin, witnesses - John ?Monck and Richard Davis, Sarah's signature neat and controlled. Sarah remarried on the 25 February 1841 to Francis ALLEYN. 1846 - Sarah Aleyn grandmother of the child (Abraham) Sleep's Tiers 1848 - Sarah Alleyn near the Gov's Farm

Have discovered that there was an error on a transcript in Halifax Yorkshire of a marriage of Jacob Bairstow and Sarah Garth on 27th Nov 1826 and the surname of Sarah was Firth not Garth. This needs to be researched further to establish Sarah's surname.

14 January 2007 3 data errors have come to light recently :-

       * Halifax 1851 census CD -     James Marsden Barkisland ED 1c Folio 422 Sch. No 39 is aged 16 not 167.

       * St. John's Halifax BMDs CD -     Marriage 26 Oct 1836 is between James TETLEY (not YETTY) AND Sarah COLLINS

       * St. John's Halifax BMDs CD -     Marriage 27 Nov 1826 is between Jacob BAIRSTOW and Sarah FIRTH (not GARTH)

Apologies for these transcription errors. http://www.cfhsweb.com/PublicSite/PublicationsHalifax1851CD.htm