- Grandparents
- unknown Bowers
- William Bailey 1785-?
- Elizabeth Bird 1780-?
Sarah Bowers
1841-1920
Sarah Bowers was the sixth of the eight children of Henry Bowers and his wife Ann Bailey of Wicken. She married George Farby of Little Thetford but the couple did not have any children on their own. When her younger sister Ann died, it left her husband James Simpson Bishop to look after a young family. So Sarah and her husband helped to look after the children and earned themselves the affectionate title of "Grandad and Granny Farby".
"Granny" Farby was most fondly remembered by my Gt. Grandmother who recalled the great times that she and her sister would have when they visited them on their produce stall on the Cambridge market. "Granny" Farby would make butter for the students and charge them 1d (one penny) per inch (25.4mm). At lunch they would all sit down on upturned baskets and eat their lunch which was brought to them from "The Temperance Hotel" and normally consisted of a meat pie.
Both Sarah and George were remembered very fondly for their kindness shown to their nieces and nephews and their children in turn.
Further Details
Born:
1841, Wicken, Cambridgeshire.
Baptised:
23rd May 1841, Wicken, Cambridgeshire.
Married:
- George Farby (1839-1920) on 18th October 1859 at Little Thetford Church, Cambridgeshire.
Census:
- 1841: 2mths, Northup Corner, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1851: 9yrs, Bedlam Yard, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1861: 19yrs, Front Street, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1871: 29yrs, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1881: 39yrs, 24 High Street, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1891: 49yrs, Front Street, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1901: 59yrs, Front Street, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1911: 70yrs, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England.
Died:
3rd April 1920, less than two months after the death of her husband (22nd February 1920).
Buried:
Probably Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.