Sarah Laflin 1810-1868 and James Pearl c1810-1869.

Sarah was the daughter of James Laflin and his second wife Ann Ramsey and was baptised in July 1810. She married James Pearl in June 1836. There is no evidence that they had any children.

In the 1841 census (6th June) they were living at Red House, Ringshall with Sarah's parents James and Ann and two of James' grandchildren. In the 1851 census (30th March), they were living with her brother Jonathan and niece Jemima.

In the 1861 census (7th April), James Pearl (aged 51 from Buxhall), a farm labourer, was living in Ringshall with his wife Sarah (aged 51) and a visitor, Jemima Laflin (aged 36) - probably the same niece.

Sarah Pearl, aged 58, died in Bosmere in the last quarter of 1868. James Pearl, supposedly aged 44, died in Bosmere in the first quarter of 1869. This is the only James Pearl to die in Suffolk between 1861 and 1881 and I think the age has been incorrectly reported.

Jemima, described in the 1871 census as "lame from birth", was living with her widowed father Benjamin in 1871 and she remained in Ringshall until her death in 1895.

Sources for this section.

Parish registers for Ringshall - available in Ipswich Record Office.
Civil Registration Indexes available online from FreeBMD
Civil Registration Indexes and Census Data available online from Findmypast

Page maintained by Susan Laflin. Last updated in January 2008.