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SARAH ANN DEANEY nee PITTS

 SARAH ANN PITTS 1883-1952


I am related to Sarah in two ways. She was the sister of my Great Grandfather William Richard Pitts but she also married Charles Deaney, the brother of my Great Grandmother Eliza Deaney.

Sarah was born on the 2nd February 1883, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Esther Pitts nee Jackson. She was baptised at St Johns, Coln St Aldwyns Gloucestershire on 4th March 1883, the family were living at Swyre Farm Cottages, as an Agricultural Labourer, it would be reasonable to assert that Thomas was working at Swyre farm at this time.

As Thomas and Esther moved around the Cotswolds as work took him, so Sarah moved too. By the 1891 census, Thomas and family were living in Aston Blank also known as Cold Aston, living and working at Aston Blank farm. 

The next documentation for Sarah is in 1901, but not the census, I have been unable to identify her there, but on 22nd June 1901, Sarah married Charles Deaney in Brentford Middx. Whilst I have been unable to find Sarah in 1901, Her soon to be husband is with his sister, Louisa and her husband James Butler in Hammersmith, Charles is employed as a General Labourer. So this may explain the move from the rural area's of the Cotswolds and Chilterns, where the families were from.

Their only child, Frederick Charles Edward Deaney was born in the 15th Jun 1902, he was baptised at St Marks, St Marylebone on  the 12th Jun 1904. At this time the family address was 33, Shouldham Rd and Charles was working as a Labourer.

The family must have returned to the Cotswold area as in the 1911 census they are back in the Cotswolds, living in Eastleach, they have a teacher, May Page, boarding with them. Charles continues to work as a labourer.

On various electoral rolls, Sarah and Charles remain living in the area. The 1939 register is the next document that shows the family still living in Eastleach at 31. Eastleach. Their son has married and has a family of his own, but Charles and Sarah are not alone, Sarah's father Thomas Pitts, is living with them. Sarah being the informant of her father's death in 1940 at the same address. However there is also Charles E (Eric) Deaney, born 6th Nov 1918, with them, he is described as 'Mentally Deficient.' Further research would indicate that he was the illigitimate son of Mary Ann Deaney, however this is a salutary lesson as I cannot find the source of this information, reviewing it so many years later.

Nonetheless, Charles Eric was living with Sarah and Charles in 1939.

Another piece of documentary evidence is Sarah being the informant, being present at the death of  her nephew, Walter Pitts, son of William Richard and Eliza Pitts, death in September 1918- cause of death Meningitis.

Sarah died 2 years after her husband in 1952.


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