Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of Unknown Fricker
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Mary (Fricker) Lovell and Edith (Fricker) Southey
Wife of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
— married
4 Oct 1795 in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Descendants 
Died
at about age 75
[location unknown]
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Biography
Sarah (Fricker) Coleridge was buried 30 Sept 1845 at St Michael, Highgate, Middlesex, England. Her age was recorded as 75.[1]
- possibly the d/o Stephen Fricker & Martha Rowles[2]
- Oct 1795 m. Samuel Taylor Coleridge[3] - 3 children (separated in 1808)
- two sisters married Coleridge's compatriots Southey (Edith[4][5]) and Lovell (Mary[2])[3]
- dropped the "h" from her name to please her husband[6]
- she and her children lived with her brother-in-law, the poet Robert Southey, when Coleridge abandoned her
Sources
- ↑ London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Michael, Highgate, Register of burials, P90/MIC1, Item 017; Call Number: p90/mic1/017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephen Fricker from Collins Family Tree 2013, Ancestry Trees. Accessed 26 Jan 19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Life of Coleridge." Coleridge's Ancient Mariner illustrated by Gustave Dore. Henry Altemus (Philadelphia, PA). 1889. p2.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Robert Southey, accessed 26 Jan 2019.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, accessed 26 Jan 2019.
- ↑ Davenport, Pamela. "Romantic but hardly romantic: Sarah Fricker'’s life as Coleridge’'s wife." Discover Wordsworth. Date Unknown. wordsworth.org.uk (blog), accessed 26 Jan 2019.
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