Author: Weymouth, Sarah
Biography:
WEYMOUTH, Sarah (1802-26: findmypast.co.uk)
She was born at Collaton, near Kingsbridge, Devon, and baptised on 6 July 1802 at the Baptist Chapel, Marlborough, the eldest of seven daughters of Adams Weymouth, a farmer, and his wife Sarah (who may have been a cousin). They later lived in a comfortable residence at Windsor Lodge, Dodbrooke. It is not known who edited her posthumous Rural Poems (1827) in which she is said to have lived in “rural retirement” and to have been “always an ardent admirer of the beauties of Nature.” It was printed at Devonport with twelve members of the extended family subscribing. It also contained a poem on her death by an unidentified younger sister. She died of consumption and was buried at Marlborough on 25 Aug. 1826. A gravestone for her parents and two of her sisters is still in the Nonconformist Tanpits Lane Cemetery, Chillington. (findmypast.co.uk 15 Aug. 2020; ancestry.co.uk 15 Aug. 2020; Rural Poems [1827]) AA