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(Research):My thoughts on her life:

Sarah's father and mother where married in Adelaide and spent the early parts of their married life 'on the road' \endash The family left Adelaide c.1852 and settled in Bendigo c.1869. (See attached 'Willows Story' doc that I compiled back in 2005)

As you will see Sarah Tabitha was born in Currency Creek SA (as was her brother Richard Benjamin). After Sarah's marriage to BIRD in Bendigo in 1881 (she was 26yrs) that the only child they had (Charles) was born in Victor Harbour SA some 18 years after they married, and only a stones throw from where Sarah Tabitha was born (Currency Creek) \endash Tabitha was now 44yrs of age!

I find it interesting that at some stage between her marriage to BIRD in Bendigo and the birth (and subsequent death) of her only child, the couple moved back to the area where Sarah was born. Currency Creek and Victor Harbour are less than 50k apart. I wonder what drew her back there?

I can find no record of the death or burial of her husband as yet, he is not buried in Perth, so maybe he died while they were in SA, but he is not in the Digger Database, but that only goes up to 1915. If he did die interstate then Sarah Tabitha must have moved to WA to be with the rest of her living family. She and her sister were both died at the same address.

Sarah's residence at death is 295 Newcastle Street Perth \endash and seeing she is buried as BIRD it is clear she did not marry again. Interestingly her older sister Caroline (second child of George WILLOWS and Lucy WICKHAM) also died at the same address, as Caroline MATTHEWS (Marriage MATTHEWS at KALGOORLIE WA at age 53).


Digger - South Australian Deaths Registrations 1842 to 1915

Surname: BIRD
Given Names: Charles
Date: 1909-05-09
Sex: M
Age: 4d
Status: C
Relative: Alfred James BIRD (F)
Relative 2:
Residence: Victor Harbor
Death Place: Victor Harbor
District Code: EnB
Symbol: S
Book: 341
Page: 3
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Maybe Sarah and her husband went to Kalgoorlie, as apparently that is where Caroline married her husband (MATTHEWS) in 1902, but I cannot find a record of it. This info must have come from JJ! Maybe he died there??

ANYWAY, to cut a long story short, I got a reply from Supreme Court of WA saying they have no probate details on George Francis WILLOWS, Sarah and Caroline's father. So I thought I would put in a search on both Sarah BIRD and Caroline MATTHEWS as I have deduced that both of them were surviving widows at the time of their deaths and that their wills might give up some info on who was who or what.

You may or may not be aware that it would appear the Caroline had a child William Albert WILLOWS (1875 \endash ) out of wedlock, when in Bendigo.

Family Name: WILLOWS
Given Name(s): William Albert
Sex: Unknown
Event: BIRTH
Father's Name: U
Mother's Name: WILLOWS - Caroline
Spouse's Family Name:
Spouse's Given Name(s):
Age:
Birth Place: SAND
Death Place:
Registration Year: 1875
Registration Number: 5241

But I can't find out what happened to him.

Birth:
reg as WILLOWES, CURRENCY CREEK SA ENB 9/44

Residence:
295 Newcastle St PERTH WA

Buried:
as Sarah Tabitha BIRD

Sarah married BIRD, Alfred James on 4 Jan 1881 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Alfred was born in 1857 in Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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