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Jagger family

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Part 2: Sarah Hannah Jagger (1842 - 1904)

Sarah Hannah was born 01 July 1842 in Ambler Thorn near Queensbury. She was the youngest child of Joseph Jagger and Hannah Haggas. In the 1851 census, she was listed as a scholar aged nine but could not sign her name at her marriage so it is doubtful she received much education at all. She worked as a bonnet maker before her marriage, the type of work many women and children could do at home. She married Sidney Smith (1840 - 1909) 27 October 1861 at St John the Baptist Church, Halifax. Her family and Sidney’s parents lived on Beggerington Lane and both families were Methodists (most likely attending the same chapel at Ambler Thorn).

Sidney and Hannah had four children: two sons both named Joah (one died in infancy), Fred and Annie. (More information about Sidney and their children appears in the Smith section.)  As well as raising the children and helping her husband (she was enumerated as 'farmer's wife' in 1881), Sarah also earned some money herself. It is likely she kept making bonnets at home for a time, but in the 1891 census she described herself as a ‘grocer’. This meant she might have owned a stall selling non-perishable items, had a shop or been based out of her home.

Sarah died 11 January 1904, aged 61, and was buried the following day at Ambler Thorn Methodist Burial Ground.

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