Sarah Ann (Dunk) Pratt (1825 - 1877)

Born 9 Jan 1825 in Mountfield, Sussex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Pratt — married 1840 (to 1877) in Narellan, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 15 May 1877 at age 52 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Sarah Ann DUNK was born in England on 9 Jan 1825. Her parents were Jesse DUNK and Charlotte Martha SELLENS. Sarah was the 4th of their 7 children.

She migrated to Australia with her family (father, stepmother Susannah SILVERS, and 6 sibs) in the bounty vessel Florist^[1] arriving 26 Oct 1839. She was aged 14 years.

The family proceeded to Camden NSW where work on the Macarthur estates awaited them. Her father was promised 20 pounds per year, and the family usually worked for free until the boys established themselves elsewhere, and the girls married away.

She married Charles Pratt at Campbellfield NSW on 14 Dec 1840, ^[2]. Charles was aged 22 years, and Sarah was aged 16 years.

The marriage is thought to have taken place in the original section of the church, since rebuilt. Sophia and Frederick VENESS acted as witnesses to signing the register. Their place of abode was given as Raby, a property then ownd by Alexander Riley, a name who figured promenantly in early Australian history. Some of the children's birth records have the parent's abode shown as Smeaton on church records for the parents. (This property was said to be situated about 2km east of Narellan NSW.) ^[3].

They had 5 children:

1. James, b 1841, d 1914
2. George, b 1842, d 1917
3. John Remngton, b 1844, d 1904
4. Charlotte Jane (HARDIMAN), b 1846, d 1920
5. Charles, b 1848 Campbellfield NSW, d 1922 at Old Junee NSW.

The couple were together for 38 years until Sarah died in 1878. Charles lived until 1881.

Sarah Ann PRATT died at NSW in 1878, aged 53 years^[4].

She is interred at ??

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-409715261 State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships; Series: 5314; Reel: 1301
2. ↑ NSW BDM marriage reg 474/1840 V1840474 24B, h Charles PRATT, w Sara A DUNK, married at CI (Church of England Campbelltown, St Peter's (Co. Aird))
3. ↑ p 4-5, The Pratt Story, by Charles Roy Pratt, prepared 1995.
4. ↑ NSW BDM death reg 9219/1877, named Sarah PRATT, f Jesse, m not stated, died at Wagga Wagga NSW.

• McLachlan-Dunk South Australia Family Line