Sarah (Lynes) Grubb (1773 - 1842)

Born 13 Apr 1773 in Shadwell, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Grubb — married 8 Sep 1803 in West Brentford, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Died 16 Mar 1842 at age 68 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Sally was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah was the daughter of Mason Lynes and Hannah Holdway.^[1] She was born at Wapping Wall, Lower Shadwell, Middlesex on 13 April 1773.^[2][3] She was generally known as Sally.^[1]

Sarah was educated at a Quaker school in Islington, Middlesex. At age 14 she went to Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland to help care for the five children of the widowed prominent Irish Quaker Sarah (Pim) Grubb. In 1794 her gifts for Quaker vocal ministry were formally recognised by County Tipperary Quaker Monthly Meeting, and she travelled in Ireland, speaking publicly in public places. She returned to Middlesex, England in 1797.^[1]

On 8 September 1803 Sarah married John Grubb, a cousin of Sarah (Pim) Grubb, at West Brentford Quaker Meeting House, Middlesex (now Brentford and Isleworth Quaker Meeting House). The Quaker marriage record of Gracechurch Street Monthly Meeting describes him as a merchant of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland (son of Benjamin Grubb, deceased merchant of Tipperary, and Susanna); and her as daughter of Mason Lynes, deceased mast and block maker of Wapping, Middlesex, and Hannah.^[4][5] She and her husband lived in Clonmel. They had four children.^[1]

By 1818 Sarah felt that she was called in minister in England. That year she and her husband moved to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. They subsequently resided in Chelmsford in Essex, Stoke Newington in Middlesex, and finally in Sudbury, Suffolk.^[1]

In this period a more evangelical form of Quakerism was coming to the fore. Sarah and her husband resisted this, and in 1837 she argued against the visit of the evangelically-minded Quaker Joseph John Gurney to America.^[1]

Sarah died at Sudbury, Suffolk on 16 March 1842^[6] and was buried at Sudbury Quaker burial ground.^[1] Her death was registered at Sudbury in the 1st quarter of 1842.^[7] In the Quaker publication the Annual Monitor there is a lengthy and pious obituary.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Edward H Milligan for 'Grubb [née Lynes], Sarah [Sally]', print and online 2004
2. ↑ The National Archives, ref. RG6/675, LONDON AND MIDDLESEX: Monthly Meeting of Ratcliff and Barking: Births, FindMyPast: transcript mis-transcribes year as 1772
3. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWFL-NY3 : 11 December 2014), Mason Lynes in entry for Sarah Lynes, 13 Apr 1773, Birth; citing p. 242, Ratcliffe, Middlesex & Barking, Essex, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London
4. ↑ The National Archives, ref. RG6/535, LONDON AND MIDDLESEX: Monthly Meeting of Gracechurch Street, City of London: Marriages, FindMyPast
5. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQXQ-PPF : 11 December 2014), Sarah Lynes, 08 Sep 1803, Marriage; citing p. 97, London & Middlesex, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Annual Monitor - Deaths, FindMyPast
7. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JQ9-ZLS : 31 December 2014), Sarah Grubb, 1842; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, General Register Office, Southport, England

• Harrison, Richard S. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers, Four Courts Press, 1997, pp. 55-56
• Wikipedia: Sarah Grubb