Sarah
Elizabeth
Sumner
formerly Lightbourn
Born in Nassau, Bahama Islands
Ancestors 
Daughter of Paul Samuel Lightbourn
and Adeline (Saunders) Lightbourn
Sister of
Alice Lightbourn, Charles Lightbourn [half], Rebecca Mary (Lightbourne) Darrell [half], James Horne Lightbourne, Julia Octavia Lightbourn, Arthur Francis (Lightbourn) Lightbourne, Ella Blanche (Lightbourn) Birkbeck, Harriet (Lightbourn) Cash and Roger Moore Lightbourn
Wife of
Elijah Henry Sumner
— married
1878 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Mother of
Henry Lightbourn Sumner and Mary Eulalie (Sumner) Hilton
Died
at age 67
in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Sep 2017
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Sarah (Lightbourn) Sumner is part of a Bahamian family.
Biography
Sarah Elizabeth Lightbourn was born 11 July 1850 in Nassau, Bahamas to Paul Samuel Lightbourn and Adeline Saunders Lightbourn.
She married the Reverend Elijah Henry Sumner, Wesleyan minister, about 1878 in Nassau, Bahamas. The couple had children, all of them born in the Bahama Islands: Henry, Roger, Mary Eulalie, and Florence Rivers Sumner.
Sometime in the late 1890s, the Sumners returned to England to reside. They appeared in the 1901 England Census as residents in Cornwall, and then they moved to Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. In 1906, Sarah, Elijah, and their daughters returned to Nassau to live permanently. The family moved back to England in 1909 because of health issues, and there they remained until Elijah and Sarah Sumner passed away.
Sarah Eliza Lightbourn Sumner died 25 August 1917 at her home Hillsdale, Pilley, Cheltenham, England at 67 years of age.
Sources
"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLM2-5HQ : 27 November 2014), Paul Lightbourn in entry for Lightbourn, 11 Jul 1850; citing Bahamas, reference 2.
1901 England Census for Sarah E Sumner, Cornwall, Sithney, District 14. She was residing with her son, Henry Sumner, and her daughter Florence Rivers Sumner.
New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, 1906, for Sarah E Summer, Roll T715, 1897-1957, 0001-1000, Roll 0756. The Sumners traveled to Nassau, Bahamas from Liverpool with the intention of permanently settling there.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 for Sarah E Sumner 1917, Q3-Jul-Aug-Sep, S, Sumner, Sarah E.
Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1988 for Sarah Eliza Sumner, Cheltenham, 1899 - 1918, 1921 - 1932, 1917.
Gloucestershire Echo, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 29 August 1917.
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