Sarah Maria Phelps Halkett

Born: February 2, 1869

Died: c. February 8, 1943

Married: Baron Hugh Colin Gustave George Halkett

Baroness Sarah Maria Phelps Stokes Halkett was a daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes. She married Baron Halkett in 1890, and divorced in 1902. Sarah may have had tuberculosis; she built a large cottage, possibly as a cure cottage, at 16 View Street in 1903, and became a recluse.

There is no mention in the Stokes Records that the couple had had any children.

Sarah Stokes Halkett wrote three books of children's verses, Aunt Sadie's Rhymes, published in 1916 and Beyond the Mountain, published in 1917, and Elf King's Flowers, published in 1924.

Her papers are at Harvard University Library.

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Baroness Halkett.

She was the eldest daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes, of New York.

In 1890 she married Hugh Colin Gustave George Halkett, 3rd Baron Halkett in the Kingdom of Hanover, and they had no children. They were divorced in 1902, and he died in 1904.

The New York Times, 17 June 1902, Baron Halkett Divorced. His Wife, a Daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes, Secures a Decree in London. London, June 16. Baroness Halkett, (formerly Miss Sarah Helen Olivia Stokes of New York), obtained a divorce this afternoon on the ground of the cruelty and misconduct of her husband. She left Baron Halkett in 1898, in consequence of ill-treatment. The suit was undefended. Baroness Halkett testified regarding her husband's cruelty. She said that on several occasions he kicked her. Hugh Colin Gustave George Halkett, Baron Halkett, was born in 1861 and married Miss Stokes in 1890. His title is a Hanoverian one. It was originally granted to Sir Hugh Halkett, a General in the Hanoverian service, who distinguished himself at Waterloo. Baroness Halkett is a daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes of this city.

She died in 1943.

Sources
Baron Halkett, in the Kingdom of Hanover, thekingscandlesticks.com, Copyright © 2017 and all rights reserved to Edward Liveing Fenn and all other contributors of personal data. No personal data to be used without attribution or for commercial purposes. Stokes Family Genealogy Forums, Sarah Phelps Stokes & Baron Halkett - married 11 Feb. 1890, divorced 16 June 1902, by Erika Stokes, Thu. 23 Dec. 2010.

Sarah Maria Phelps Stokes (1869-1943) who married Baron Halkett in 1890 and divorced in 1902. She wrote children's books under the name of Aunt Sadie.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181365578/sarah-halkett