Author: Washbourn, Sarah
Biography:
WASHBOURN, Sarah, formerly BOWDEN (1780-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised on 10 Jan. 1780 at Tooting, one of the eight children of the Rev. James Bowden, a Dissenting minister from Warminster, Wiltshire, who later moved to Tooting, and Deborah Shrapnell, who had married in 1769. Nothing is known of her education. She married the Rev. Daniel Washbourn (1771-1834), a Dissenting minister, of Wellingborough, Northants, on 2 Oct. 1798 at Tooting Graveney, now South London. They had at least nine children, only one of whom appears to have survived into adulthood. After their marriage, he continued as minister at the Cheese Lane Independent chapel, Wellingborough, but they had early fallen under the spell of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church recently established at Bolton near Manchester, and registered the births of their first six children there. They appear to have reverted to more mainstream dissent when they moved to Hammersmith, south-west London, where he became minister of George Yard, Broadway, Congregational 1812-34. After her husband’s death, she possibly ran a school in Waterloo Street, Hammersmith, with her sole surviving daughter, Mary Ann, or did some teaching at the Wick House academy next door. By 1851 they had moved to Mawson Row, off Chiswick Lane, where they lived as lodgers on annuities. She died there on 15 May 1853. It is unclear how much of Hymns (1822) is her work (if any) and she may only have been the editor. A large number of hymns appear to have come from one family (as yet unidentified) with the initials L.M., S.M.and C.M.(ancestry.co.uk 26 Sept. 2021; CCEd 26 Sept. 2021; Stamford Mercury 14 Nov. 1834; British Banner 18 May 1853; Thomas Faulkner, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith [1839], 259) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Washbourn