Sarah Louisa GOMERY (1836-1918)

Name:	Sarah Louisa GOMERY
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	Sarah GOMERY (1810-1844)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	17 Jul 1836	Greenwich
	Blisset Street
Baptism	10 Aug 1836 (age 0)	St Alphage, Greenwich
Census	1841 (age 4)	Greenwich
	South Street
Census	1851 (age 14)	Plumstead
	4 Fox Place living with Enos and Lucy Vaughan
Census	1861 (age 24)	Pembroke
	Charlton Place Still with the Vaughans
Census	1871 (age 33 (!))	Plumstead
	175 Sandy Hill Road Living with Enos and Lucy
Census	1881 (age 43 (!))	Plumstead
	175 Sandy Hill Road Listed as Louisa, still with the elderly Vaughans,
Census	1891 (age 54)	Islington
	8 Florence Street Living with the Hodges family.
Census	1901 (age 63 (!))	Islington
	8 Florence Street Still with the Hodges family.
Census	1911 (age 73 (!))	Islington
	8 Florence Street Still described as a visitor with the Hodges family!
Death	11 Dec 1918 (age 82)	Islington
	8 Florence Street, Islington, the home of the Hodges family
Burial	18 Dec 1918 (age 82)	Islington Cemetery

Individual Note

The identity of Sarah Louisa's father was not recorded on the baptism register, and the only evidence for her mother Sarah's being the daughter of Thomas and Ruth Gomery's daughter Sarah is the fact that she is described as the neice of Enos and Lucy Vaughan, or strictly speaking Lucy Gomery's great neice - her elder sister's grandaughter. Enos and Lucy took little Sarah Louisa into their home on the death of her mother in 1844, where she stayed throughout her childhood and adult life, repaying her uncle and aunt's generosity by caring for them herself in their old age, and only then moving out of Plumstead to live with the Hodges family in Islington. Emma Hodges was the sister of Jane Lane who had married John Vaughan the builder, and she and her sisters welcomed Sarah Louisa into their midst, hospitality that was rewarded by the terms of the latter's will on her death in 1918.