Obern, Sarah (nee Price) (1807-1886)

Ministry

The references in the PM magazine record Sarah preaching at opening or anniversary services.

Family

Sarah was born in 1807 on Guernsey.

She married George Obern (1814-1874) in the spring of 1843 at Banbury, Oxfordshire. Records identify three children.

• Ester Jane (1844-1862)
• Georgina (b1845) – married Albert Alford, a tailor
• George Samuel (1849-1891) – an account clerk

Sarah died on 24 November 1886 at Highworth, Wiltshire.

Circuits

• 1829 St Austell
• 1830 Motcombe
• 1832 Frome
• 1835 Salisbury
• 1837 Andover
• 1839 Banbury
• 1840 Faringdon
• 1841 Micheldever
• 1842 Banbury
• 1843 disappears

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1838/257; 1839/373; 1840/301; 1841/166

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers