Sarah Ann Hickman GLASSCOCK (1822-1902)

Name:	Sarah Ann Hickman GLASSCOCK
Sex:	Female
Father:	James Hickman GLASSCOCK (1778-1846)
Mother:	Phoebe UNKNOWN (1781?-1826)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	1822	Southend
Baptism	9 Jun 1822 (age 0)	St Mary's Prittlewell [Essex Baptism Index]1
Death	31 Oct 1902 (age 79-80)	46 St Mary's Ave,East Prittlewell2
Occupation		Washerwoman, Prittlewell; Prittlewell

Marriage (1)

Spouse	John George CAMPBELL (1820-1898)
Children	George John GLASSCOCK (1842-1899)

Marriage (2)

Spouse	George William CHURCH (1821-1857)
Children	Walter James GLASSCOCK (1851-1851)
	James GLASSCOCK (1853-1933)
	Edith CHURCH (1857- )
Marriage	28 Dec 1856 (age 33-34)	St Bride's Fleet

Marriage (3)

Spouse	George B PAWSEY (1835?-1918)
Children	John PAWSEY (1863-1928)
	Sarah Ann PAWSEY (1866-1923)
Marriage	18 May 1863 (age 40-41)	St Mary's Prittlewell

Individual Note

Sarah's story begins in 1822 when she was baptised Sarah Ann Hickman Glass (sic) on 9 June at St Mary's Prittlewell, the youngest of seven children born to James Hickman Glass(cock) and his wife Phoebe, whom he had married in London in 1803.

By the time of the 1841 census James, a 60 year old tailor (actually 72) was widowed and living with his youngest daughter Sarah (19) at Prospect Row on the Southend waterfront, east of the pier. Also in the household was a three year old Frederick Lowndes, the son of Sarah Ann's elder sister Maria and a Joseph Lowndes of St Pancras, London. In June 1841 Sarah Ann would already have been carrying the child of her liaison with John George Campbell, a London baker; George John Glasscock was born the following year, on 22nd January 1842.

Ten years later Sarah Ann was no longer living on Prospect Row but on East Street in Prittlewell near St Mary's church; her father had died in 1846, and she was now the unmarried head of a motley household that comprised her 9 year old son George Glass (sic); Herbert Glass, a 10 year old nephew from St Pancras London (in fact, another son of Maria Glasscock and Joseph Lowndes); Walter Glass (father unknown) described as a four year old but actually a 4 month old baby, who was to die 3 months later; two year old Phoebe Glass, a niece (the daughter of Sarah's late sister Maria and husband George William Church, a London-born master carpenter); and Lucy Church, aged one, another niece, presumably Phoebe's younger sister.

As for little Frederick Lowndes, he was now 14 and living on Marine Parade in George Cooch's household; George was a plumber and Frederick was working as an errand boy.

On 16 September 1853 Sarah Ann bore a son, James Glasscock, to her deceased sister's widower, George William Church; no father is named on the birth certificate and it was three years later, on 28 December 1857, that Sarah Ann wed her lover at St Bride's Fleet Church in London (probably a clandestine marriage). Less than twelve months later George was dead, of a brain disease, and in the same year little Edith Church was born.

In 1861 Sarah, now a widowed Mrs Church, was still living in East Street and working as a laundress to support her family, consisting of: William Church, 17, son (actually the son of Sarah's sister Maria and George Church); Lucy Church, 11, daughter, (as above); James Church, 8, son, and daughter Edith, 3, both Sarah's own children born in Prittlewell; and Frederick (Lowndes) Church, a 23 year old nephew, occupation seaman. Like Herbert in 1851, his birthplace was given as London St Pancras Somerstown. Twenty year old Herbert was now calling himself Herbert Hickman (his middle name) and working as a baker in South Shoebury; he was lodging with a master baker, Frederick Popplewell and his family at no 3 the High Street.

Back in East Street Prittlewell, a little further along the road, lived George Pawsey, a 25 year old farm labourer, with his younger brothers and sisters, John, William and Sarah. Perhaps Sarah Ann took in their washing; in any event on 18 May 1863 she married George at St Mary's Church. Herbert Hickman Glasscock and Sarah's elder sister Phoebe Glasscock attended the service. A few months later in the summer of 1863 John Pawsey was born, followed three years later by little Sarah Ann.

In 1881 Sarah Ann Pawsey, now 59 to George's 45, was still living in East Street, Prittlewell, and giving board and lodging to her elder sister Phoebe Glasscock, aged 77. Twenty years later, in 1901, Phoebe had died and George and Sarah Ann were living at Wades Cottages in Prittlewell, but the following year, on 30 October 1902, Sarah Ann died of "senile decay" at the age of 80. The informant was not George Pawsey but their son-in-law, Walter Orpen, who had married their daughter Sarah Ann towards the end of 1892, and was present at Sarah's death at 46 St Mary's Avenue, Prittlewell.

Sources

1	"Letter from Joan Nutt, 14 Jan 2004".

2	"Sarah Ann Pawsey death, 31 Oct 1902 Prittlewell".