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Sarah Hunt1831–?

Name
Sarah Hunt
Given names
Sarah
Surname
Hunt
Married Name
Sarah Humphrey
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Birth before 5 June 1831
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

Baptism 5 June 1831
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

History 1832 (Age 6 months)
 

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 18 months)
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History 1834 (Age 2)
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
History 1837 (Age 5)
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838 (Age 6)
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839 (Age 7)
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840 (Age 8)
 

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.
History 1842 (Age 10)
 

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 Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
MarriageHenry Humphrey - View family
between July 1848 and September 1848 (Age 17)
 Tonbridge R D, Kent, England

History 1849 (Age 17)
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850 (Age 18)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851 (Age 19)
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853 (Age 21)
 

Note: Crimean War.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 between July 1855 and September 1855 (Age 24)
 East Peckham, Kent, England

daughter - Ellen Humphrey
History 1855 (Age 23)
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
Baptism of a daughter 16 December 1855 (Age 24)
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

daughter - Ellen Humphrey
History 1857 (Age 25)
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858 (Age 26)
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861 (Age 29)
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862 (Age 30)
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864 (Age 32)
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867 (Age 35)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869 (Age 37)
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870 (Age 38)
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871 (Age 39)
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
Marriage of a daughterEllen Humphrey - View family
between July 1875 and September 1875 (Age 44)
 Tonbridge, Kent, England

son-in-law - Henry Rabbitt
daughter - Ellen Humphrey
History 1876 (Age 44)
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877 (Age 45)
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
History 1879 (Age 47)
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880 (Age 48)
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882 (Age 50)
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883 (Age 51)
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884 (Age 52)
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885 (Age 53)
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886 (Age 54)
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887 (Age 55)
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889 (Age 57)
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897 (Age 65)
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898 (Age 66)
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899 (Age 67)
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901 (Age 69)
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903 (Age 71)
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904 (Age 72)
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History 1905 (Age 73)
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
History 1914 (Age 82)
 

Note: The Great War (World War I).
History 1916 (Age 84)
 

Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History 1917 (Age 85)
 

Note: Russian Revolution.
History 1918 (Age 86)
 

Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History 1922 (Age 90)
 

Note: Irish Free State established.
History 1928 (Age 96)
 

Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men).
History 1936 (Age 104)
 

Note: Spanish Civil War.
History 7 July 1937 (Age 106)
 

Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War).
History 1938 (Age 106)
 

Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich.
History 1 September 1939 (Age 108)
 

Note: The German invasion of Poland.
History 3 September 1939 (Age 108)
 

Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany .
History 10 June 1940 (Age 109)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
History 22 June 1941 (Age 110)
 

Note: German attack on the USSR.
History 7 December 1941 (Age 110)
 

Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour).
History 8 December 1941 (Age 110)
 

Note: America declares war on Japan.
History 11 December 1941 (Age 110)
 

Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America.
History 8 September 1943 (Age 112)
 

Note: Italy surrenders.
History 13 October 1943 (Age 112)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Germany.
History 19 April 1945 (Age 113)
 

Note: German forces in Italy surrender.
History 8 May 1945 (Age 113)
 

Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day).
History 2 September 1945 (Age 114)
 

Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day).
DeathYes
 

Family with Henry Humphrey - View family
husband
Henry Humphrey

Birth before 8 February 1829 27  Hadlow, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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2 years
herself
Sarah Hunt

Birth before 5 June 1831  Tonbridge, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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Marriage: between July 1848 and September 1848 — Tonbridge R D, Kent, England
7 years
#1 daughter
Ellen Humphrey

Birth between July 1855 and September 1855 26 24  East Peckham, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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