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Sarah Waite1805–?

Name
Sarah Waite
Given names
Sarah
Surname
Waite
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Birth before 29 September 1805 35
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

Baptism 29 September 1805
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

History 1805
 

Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
History 1809 (Age 3)
 

Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History 1811 (Age 5)
 

Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History 1812 (Age 6)
 

Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History 1814 (Age 8)
 

Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History 1815 (Age 9)
 

Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
History 1819 (Age 13)
 

Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History 1820 (Age 14)
 

Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History 1821 (Age 15)
 

Note: Napoleon dies.
History 1829 (Age 23)
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History 1830 (Age 24)
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History 1832 (Age 26)
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833 (Age 27)
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History 1834 (Age 28)
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
History 1837 (Age 31)
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838 (Age 32)
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839 (Age 33)
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840 (Age 34)
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
Death of a father before 1841 (Age 35)
 

father - Thomas Waite
History 1842 (Age 36)
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History 1849 (Age 43)
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850 (Age 44)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851 (Age 45)
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853 (Age 47)
 

Note: Crimean War.
History 1855 (Age 49)
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History 1857 (Age 51)
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
Death of a mother between January 1858 and March 1858 (Age 52)
 Tonbridge R D, Kent, England

mother - Alice Waghorn
History 1858 (Age 52)
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861 (Age 55)
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862 (Age 56)
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864 (Age 58)
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867 (Age 61)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History 1869 (Age 63)
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869 (Age 63)
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870 (Age 64)
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871 (Age 65)
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876 (Age 70)
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877 (Age 71)
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
History 1879 (Age 73)
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880 (Age 74)
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882 (Age 76)
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883 (Age 77)
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884 (Age 78)
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885 (Age 79)
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886 (Age 80)
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887 (Age 81)
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889 (Age 83)
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897 (Age 91)
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898 (Age 92)
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899 (Age 93)
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901 (Age 95)
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903 (Age 97)
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904 (Age 98)
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History 1905 (Age 99)
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
History 1914 (Age 108)
 

Note: The Great War (World War I).
History 1916 (Age 110)
 

Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History 1917 (Age 111)
 

Note: Russian Revolution.
History 1918 (Age 112)
 

Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History 1922 (Age 116)
 

Note: Irish Free State established.
DeathYes
 

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father
Thomas Waite

Death before 1841  

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mother
Alice Waghorn

Birth about 1770  Wadhurst, Sussex, England

Death between January 1858 and March 1858 (Age 88) Age: 80  Tonbridge R D, Kent, England

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Marriage: 7 February 1799 — Brenchley, Kent, England
2 years
#1 elder sister
Ann Waite

Birth before 29 January 1801 31  Tonbridge, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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20 months
#2 elder sister
Mercy Waite

Birth before 19 September 1802 32  Tonbridge, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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21 months
#3 elder brother
Thomas Waite

Birth before 24 June 1804 34  Tonbridge, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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15 months
#4 herself
Sarah Waite

Birth before 29 September 1805 35  Tonbridge, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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mother
Alice Waghorn

Birth about 1770  Wadhurst, Sussex, England

Death between January 1858 and March 1858 (Age 88) Age: 80  Tonbridge R D, Kent, England

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#1 half-brother
John Richardson Waghorn

Birth before 10 February 1789 19  Marden, Kent, England

Death between April 1859 and June 1859 (Age 70) Age: 77  Cranbrook R D, Kent, England

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20 months
#2 half-sister
Ann Richardson Waghorn

Birth before 19 October 1790 20  Marden, Kent, England

Death between January 1840 and March 1840 (Age 49) Age: 40  Cranbrook R D, Kent, England

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4 years
#3 half-brother
James Richardson Waghorn

Birth before 18 May 1794 24  Marden, Kent, England

Death between April 1883 and June 1883 (Age 88) Age: 89  Tonbridge R D, Kent, England

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