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ANDERSON, Sarah Widow?
1809 - 1871 (63 years) Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.
1809 - 1870 (61 years)-
Name ANDERSON, Sarah Suffix Widow? Birth Between 1808 and 1809 Spalding, Lincolnshire 
Gender Female Death 1871 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire Burial 19 Mar 1871 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire Person ID I7437 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Family PLOWRIGHT, William, b. 1809, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire d. 1870, Wrangle, Lincolnshire, England (Age 61 years) Marriage 1853 Spalding Registration District, Lincolnshire Family ID F2658 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Death - 1871 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 
Burial - 19 Mar 1871 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire = Link to Google Earth
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Notes
SARAH PLOWRIGHT formerly ANDERSON née .......... 1807 or 1808-1871
I have found no evidence that she really was a widow. Her son, born in 1844, was illegitimate.
The birth of a John William ANDERSON was registered in 1844.
(GRO June Q 1844 [BLANK] Spalding 14 552)
The marriage between William PLOWRIGHT and Sarah ANDERSON, widow, was registered in 1853.
(GRO June Q 1853 Spalding 7a 586)
From the 1861 census of Six Houses Bank, St. Bartholomews, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire:
William PLOWRIGHT, head, married, aged 51, agricultural labourer, born at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire;
*Sarah PLOWRIGHT, wife, married, aged 52, agricultural labourer's wife, born at Spalding, Lincolnshire;
John W. ANDERSON, wife's son, unmarried, aged 16, agricultural labourer, born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
(RG9/2320/45/9)
The marriage between a John William ANDERSON, father deceased, and Elizabeth Carrinton LADD, daugher of Henry LADD, took place at West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 17 December 1865.
(Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index)
A Sarah PLOWRIGHT of Pinchbeck West was buried at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 19 March 1871 aged 63, shortly before the 1871 census taken on 31 March.
(LFHS Parish Register Burials 1813-1900 Volume 5)
NOTES & QUERIES:
What was her maiden name?
When and where was she baptised?
What was the date of her first marriage to Anderson?
(revised 09.01.2018)