Sarah Pratt

George Lincoln, et al., History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, published by the Town of Hingham, 1893, Online edition at USGenWeb Hingham, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mahingha/history/contents.html.

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BIRTH & BAPTISM Name: Sarah Petcher Gender: Female Baptism Date: 4 Aug 1764 Baptism Place: Markfield,Leicester,England Father: John Petcher Mother: Eliz. FHL Film Number: 585285 [The only surviving possibility in Leicestershire in the relevant time frame]

MARRIAGE Name: John Prats Spouse's Name: Sarah Petcher Event Date: 29 Oct 1788 Event Place: Prestwold,Leicester,England

Sarah Petcher England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991 Name: John Pratt Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 29 Oct 1788 Event Place: Prestwold, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original): Leicestershire,England,Prestwold Residence Place: Sheepshead Gender: Male Religion: Anglican Spouse's Name: Sarah Petcher Spouse's Residence Place: Hoton Record Number: GBPRS/LEICS/MAR/00147836/1

Text: John Pratt, p. Sheepshead, & Sarah Petcher, of H., lic. 29 Oct 1788 Book: Calendar of Wills Proved and of Administrations Granted in the Commissary Court of the Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction of Groby, 1580-1800. (Will) Collection: Leicestershire: - Register of Marriages, 1560-1837 [Not clear what this exemption is about or why it was necessary]

Prestwold is a hamlet and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. The parish has a population of around 60. The population at the 2011 census remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Hoton. Nearby places are Hoton, just to the north, and Burton on the Wolds, to the south-east. The parish includes Prestwold Hall and parish church St Andrew's.

This interesting surname is an occupational name for a fisherman, deriving from the Old French "pescheor", "pecheour" or "pecher" meaning fisherman. Occupational surnames which were originally job descriptive later became hereditary. The surname is first recorded in the early 13th Century (see below). One Nicholas le Peschur, is noted as a witness in the Assize Court Rolls of Worcestershire in 1221, and John le Pechere appears in the Cartulary of Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire, in 1242. In the modern idiom, the surname has three variant spellings, Peacher, Pitcher, and Petcher. Suggests that Sarah's family may have been Norman and crossed to England with William I.

CENSUS Name: Sarah Pratt Age: 75 Estimated birth year: abt 1766 Gender: Female Where born: Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Calverley Hundred: Morley County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: Back Lane, Calverley Occupation: John is a clothier Registration district: Bradford Sub-registration district: Calverley Piece: 1298 Book: 2 Folio: 14 Page Number: 20 Household Members: Name Age John Pratt 75 Sarah Pratt 75 Grace Pratt 20 [The recorder shows all this family born Yorkshire, so either he made an error, or tha attribution has an error somewhere.]

First name(s) Sarah Last name Pratt Sex Female Age 75 Birth year 1766 Birth county Yorkshire [An error or is the attribution wrong?] Birth county as transcribed YORKSHIRE Birth place (other) England House name - House number - Street Back Lane Parish or township Calverley Town Calverley City or borough - Registration district Bradford County Yorkshire, Yorkshire (West Riding) Country England Occupation - Family member first name(s) Grace, John Family member last name Pratt [William Pratt 30yrs, also a clothier lives with his family in the next street.]

DEATH & BURIAL Leeds Mercury 17 February 1844 On the same day (Sunday 11th), aged 80, Sarah, wife of Mr John Pratt sen., of Calverley

First name(s) Sarah Last name Pratt Age 80 Birth year 1764 Death year 1844 Burial year 1844 Burial date 15 Feb 1844 Church St Wilfrid Denomination Anglican Place Calverley County Yorkshire, Yorkshire (West Riding) Country England Record set National Burial Index For England & Wales

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From MyHeritage Sarah Pratt (born Petcher) FamilySearch Family Tree Birth: 1764 - Prestwold, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom Parents: John Petcher, Eliz. Petcher Husband: John Pratt Children: John Pratt, Mary Pratt, Richard Pratt, Elizabeth Pratt, George Pratt, Benjamin Pratt View this Match [Not checked]