Sarah Crowder

Biography
In the 1841 & 1851 censuses Sarah Pritchard lived with her oldest sister, Mary Ann and her family at Meeting House (or Chapel) Lane, Ringwood, Hampshire; the Brown family house named 'The Furlong'. The house overlooked open land -the Furlong, a feature of the town. Brown and Pritchard families and two family names were intertwined in subsequent generations. °
Sarah was born in 1819 in or near Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, the daughter of John Pritchard & Harriett Pritchard. John Pritchard was an exciseman, who by then had been in Crown Service since before their second eldest daughter, Harriet, had been born in Lancashire. Sarah Pritchard married Thomas Crowder in Christchurch, Hampshire, where Sarah's father, John had by the Census in 1851, retired as an Officer in the Excise Service and with her mother, Harriett continued to live until they died. By 1861 -almost soon after their marriage on the south coast in Hampshire, the Crowder family moved to live at the Wharfage Madeley, Trowbridge, Shropshire, a house and premises -storage buildings and yard for the decorating, plumbing and glazier's business which Thomas Crowder ran overlooking the River Severn, next to the Talbot Inn and the Iron-bridge. Her father -John Pritchard, was born in Broseley, on the far side of the River from Madeley; in 1789 and, then 1813. married Sarah's mother Harriett at Madeley Parish Church. The Census of 1861 lists Thomas Crowder, aged 34 as the head of his family in Madeley and as a Painter, Plumber, Glazier, Spirit and Porter Dealer employing eleven [men] and 2 boys. Thomas himself was born at Ironbridge. Sarah's birth place was Hertfordshire -she was born at or near Kings Langley where her father had been a time based as an Excise Officer. They had one son, John Stanley Crowder aged two. Sarah had two brothers, John Gilbert Pritchard, who was disabled and cared for by John and Harriett at home and George Pritchard a successful Bank Manager whose career lasting forty years, was spent with the London & County Bank in London until his retirement in 1892 when he retired to Poole. She had two older sisters, Mary Ann and Harriet Farnell and one younger, Emma who married Peter O'Connor and lived in Westminster, London. ° The Profile for Sarah's sister, Harriet Farnell provides more information. °
Sources
[1] Sarah Pritchard in English Births & Christenings 1538-1975
Christening: Nov 28 1819
Kings Langley, Hertford, England
Father John Pritchard : Mother Harriet
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C04813-1
System Origin: England-ODM : GS Film number: 569744
accessed: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-30042-49547170-/sarah-pr...
The Rcd. of Sarah's baptism. located in Herts. Archives, Hertford : Kings Langley Parish Baptisms 1813-65 Ref. D/P64/1/8 -cc source
[2] Name: Thomas Stanley Chune Crowder : Age: 26. Birth: Yr. (estd.): 1827
Event: Marriage : Date & Place : 16 May 1853, Christchurch, Hampshire, England, U.K.
Father's Name: Leonard Crowder
Spouse's Name: Sarah Pritchard Spouse's Age: 27. Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1826
Spouse's Father's Name: John Pritchard
Citation: "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKHD-8QP : 13 March 2020), Sarah Pritchard in entry for Thomas Stanley Chune Crowder, 1853.
& https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-30043-267850-/sarah-prit...
& see (ii) "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCK-FTRX : Sun Mar 10 11:44:26 UTC 2024), Entry for Stanley Chune Crowder, Esq and Sarah Pritchard, 16.
Name Stanley Chune Crowder, Esq
Spouse's Name Sarah Pritchard
Spouse's Father's Name Mr Pritchard
Marriage Date 16 May 1853 : Event Type Marriage Notice
Event Date & Place 16, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, U.K.
Newspaper Salisbury & Winchester Journal
Page Number 3
[3] Census 1871
Name Sarah Crowder : Age 45
Event Date & Place 1871, Ironbridge, Shropshire, England, U.K.
Event Place (Original) Ironbridge, Madeley, Shropshire, England
Sub-Dist. Madeley
Enumn. List. 7
Event Type Census
Birth Yr. (estd.) 1826
Marital Status Married
Relationship to Head of Household Wife
Relationship Code Wife
Entry Number 2
[4] British Newspaper Archive - Marriage of Sarah Pritchard
Stanley Chune Crowder, Esq -Husband
Name: Stanley Chune Crowder, Esq :
Marriage Date: 16 May 1853
Spouse's Name: Sarah Pritchard
Spouse's Father's Name: Mr. Pritchard
Marriage Notice Dte: 21 May 1853
Marriage Notice Place: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Marriage Notice Place (Original): Salisbury &c.
Event Type: Marriage Notice
Event Place Note: 1740-1945
Newspaper: Salisbury & Winchester Journal, Page No. 3
[5] England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
Name Sarah Crowder Age 65
Ed. Birth Yr. abt. 1820
Regn. Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec
Death Regn. Place Madeley, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Death Dte. Dec. 1885
Inferred Death Place Shropshire, United Kingdom
Vol. 6a, p. 410
[6] Probate of Thomas Stanley Chune Crowder:
Thomas Stanley Crowder - officially referred to as 'Stanley Crowder'
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills & Admins.), 1858-1995
Source Info. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills & Admins.) 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data:Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of Grants of Probate & Letters of Administration made in Probate Registries of High Court of Justice in England. London © Crown copyright.