Notes for Sarah THURTELL

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Notes for Sarah THURTELL

The History of the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968 and the family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900 show Sarah Thurtell married Robert Browne but no further information.

Information received from Jane Ward in 1998 shows that Sarah Thurtell was born in October 1759.

Information received in 1997 from Peter Murray shows that Sarah Thurtell was born in 1759 and was baptised November 4, 1759, at St. Julian, Norwich, Norfolk, England. She died in 1818 and is buried with her parents in Blundeston. The microfilm copy of the parish record from St. Julian shows Sarah Thurtell, daughter of James and Winnefred, was baptised November 4, 1759.

Sarah Thurtell was married for the first time on September 25, 1787, to Robert Browne, then of "Sparrow's Nest," Lowestoft (brother of Anne and Susannah Browne, wives of Sarah's brothers John Thurtell and Thomas Thurtell respectively). Robert Browne was baptised January 1, 1761, at Lowestoft, and died in 1813. Both are mentioned in the will of her father, James, proved in 1801.

Family tradition relates that Sarah Thurtell and Robert Browne were married in a triple wedding ceremony. His sister, Susannah Browne married her brother, Thomas Thurtell, and her brother, John Thurtell, married his sister, Anne Browne, on the same day, September 25, 1787, as confirmed by records of the Church of St. Mary, Blundeston, Suffolk, England. Three sets of tea cups and saucers (cups without handles) were presented to the three brides on their wedding day by the Lowestoft China Works. The grandfather of the three Brownes married on that day was Robert Browne, one of the founding partners in 1757 of the Lowestoft China Works. According to information from Mrs. E. G. D. Murray, who grew up in Blundeston, near Lowestoft, Sparrow's Nest is a big and beautiful park at the very north end of Lowestoft, where the main street of Lowestoft turns left. The park goes right down the escarpment. There was no house there in the early 1900's, but there was said to have formerly been a big beautiful house somewhere in the park.

Sarah was married for the second time after 1813 to John Clark, who was previously married to Sarah's sister Elizabeth.

Robert and Sarah (Thurtell) Browne apparently lived in Hopton parish around the time of their marriage; and although no contemporary record of their children has been located, Browne family descendents believe they had two children, John and Mary, while another family record adds another, Sarah.

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