Author: Cassan, Sarah
Biography:
CASSAN, Sarah, formerly MEARS (1766-1844: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised at St. Clement Danes, London, on 13 Mar. 1766, the daughter of Captain Charles Mears (1726-1789) of the East India Company and his wife Sarah Dore. She married Stephen Cassan (1757-1794), an Irish barrister who was appointed High Sheriff of Calcutta in 1785, on 4 Mar. 1786 at Calcutta. He had literary interests and was one of the founders of the Bengal Journal. He died 26 Jan. 1794 at Calcutta. She received an East India Company Pension in 1796. Her Poems (1806) consists largely of occasional and society verse. She seems to have lived with her son, the Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1789-1841), and gave testimony in his favour in the court case he faced over the forced abduction (“stolen marriage”) of his wife while Curate of Frome, Somerset in 1820. After his death in 1841 (or possibly before since he was increasingly unstable and irascible), she moved back to London, living in Queen Street, Kensington. She died in 1844 and was buried at Holy Trinity Brompton on 24 Jan. (ancestry.co.uk 13 Aug. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 13 Aug. 2020; GM Sept. 1814, 302; Bath Chronicle 10 May 1821; "Cassan, Stephen Hyde," ODNB 13 Aug. 2020; RLF 790; GM 1841, 550) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Sarah Cassan