Sarah HILLS^{[1, 2, 3]}

1797 - 1863  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Sarah HILLS
  Christened	8 Jan 1797	Maidstone, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Jul 1863	Deptford, Kent, England
  Buried	28 Jul 1863	Brockley formerly Deptford Cemetery, Deptford, Kent, England
  Person ID	I1877	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Francis HILLS,   b. 1769/1770,   d. 5 Feb 1817, Maidstone, Kent, England  (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Lydia EATON,   c. 31 Jan 1773, East Peckham, Kent, England ,   d. 26 May 1816, Maidstone, Kent, England  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Married	2 Nov 1794	East Peckham, Kent, England   [4]
  Family ID	F772	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George HODGES,   c. Abt 1795/1805
  Married	14 Sep 1825	Boxley, Kent, England   [5]
  Children	1. Emma (Sarah) HODGES,   c. 16 Jul 1826, Maidstone, Kent, England ,   d. June Qtr 1889, 2a, 455, Faversham, Kent, England
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Sarah Hodges, according to the Bodeker family Bible kept for the children of Emma Hodges and Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Bodeker, died 22 July 1863 and was buried in Deptford Cemetery. She was 66 years of age at her death, placing her birth circa 1797. It is interesting to note that the original entry of the age appears to have been changed from 67 years to 66 years. On first page of Bible inscriptions appears: "Sarah Hills" [at the top of the page] "October 21, 1823" [immediately beneath the name Sarah Hills but written in a different hand] MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1851 Hill Mrs. Ann, ‘Nag’s Head’, Week street Hills Francis, beer retailer & grocer, Mote road Hills John Hyde, tailor & woollen draper, Week street Hills Richard, tailor, Pudding lane Hills Thomas, ‘Red Lion’, High street Hills Walter, plumber, Stone street Hills William B. collector of paving rates, Brewer street Hodges John, beer retailer, Bower place Hodges Mrs. Sarah, beer retailer, Jeffrey street MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1832-1834 Hills, Ann, publican, Nag's Head, Week Street MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1828-29 HILLS John NAG'S HEAD Week Street Maidstone Directory 1839 Hodges, Sarah, licensed beer seller, Jeffrey Street Hills, Frances, Mote Road, Hodges Mr. S. S., Boxley 1847 Hodges Sarah, Jeffery st., shopkeeper Hills Francis, Mote road, shopkeeper Hills Rd. Pudding lane, shopkeeper Maidstone 1850 from Maidstone and Environs directory Hills, Francis, baker, grocer and licensed beerseller, Mote road Hills, Richard, grocer and tea dealer, Pudding lane Hills, Thomas, dairyman, Pudding lane

  
  

• Sources

  [S50] 1841 Census, England and Wales, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Maidstone, Kent, England, HO107/490, ED 8, fol. 16, p. 24, FHL film #0306882., 6 Jun 1841. Jeffery Street, Maidstone, occupying one household: Sarah Hodges, 40, grocer, born in county Emma Hodges, 15, born in county. Particularly note that this census does not provide marital status, therefore Sarah could have already been widowed by this date. [S15] 1851 Census, England, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Trinity, Maidstone, Kent, England, HO107/1617, ED 1hh, fol. 515, p. 29, FHL film #0193518, 30 Mar 1851. Household schedule #136, 10 Jeffrey Street, Maidstone: Sarah Hodges, head, widow, 55, greengrocer, born Maidstone; Emma Bodeker, daughter, married, 24, no occupation, born Maidstone; Henry Bodeker, son-in-law, married, 25, watchmaker, born Germany. Address appears between Union Street and Carey Street [S58] 1861 Census, England, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #0542629-30, St. Paul, St. James Hatcham, page 15, 7 Apr 1861. Schedule #105, 13 Walpole Road: Henry Saunders [sic], head, married, 45, watchmaker, born Hamburgh [sic], Germany; Emma Saunders, wife, married, 34, born Maidstone, Kent; Emma S. Saunders, daughter, 4 years, scholar, born Maidstone; Catherine M., daughter, 3 years, born Deptford; Heinrich A. Saunders, son, 1 year old, born Deptford; Sarah Hodges, mother, widow, 64, born Maidstone, occupation was written as "independent" but that was crossed through and superceded by "retired shopkeeper". This entry was extremely difficult to find. The entirety of Deptford was searched several times, without success. When all attempts had failed to produce an entry in the 1861 census for the Bodeker family, the certificates of birth of Alfred and one of his siblings was purchased. On the certificate of his sibling was the address 13 Walpole Road. Even then, when I first ventured to find the right entry, I found the Saunders family reference but did not take special notice of any of the other inhabitants. I noted that there were two families were living at that address but that neither was a Bodeker family. After searching all other Walpole addresses in Deptford I returned to this particular entry and it finally came to my awareness that Sarah Hodges, the mother, of Emma was living with this group. There are far too many similarities for this not to be the Bodeker family: Emma and Sarah's ages in comparison to the 1851 census, each of their birthplaces, the names of the children as shown on the 1871 through 1881 census returns. It is also interesting to note that this address re-appears later in the collective family's history: when Samuel Gregory and his wife take up residence at 13 Walpole Road in Deptford. [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), East Peckham, Kent, England, 2 Nov 1794. Franics Hills of this parish and Lidia Eaton of this parish were married in this church by banns this second day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four by me . Mitchell Curate. This Marriage was solemnized between us Francis Hills, Lidia Ethon [sic]. In the presence of Thomas Miller, John Durtnall. All parties signed their names. [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Boxley, Kent, England, 14 Sep 1825. he bachelor otp, she spinster, of this parish - banns. Wit: John Hyland, Ann Hills