Sarah Hornblow was from a Baptist family in 18^th century rural Essex and she seems to have been a tough woman.

                          She married her first husband in 1810 age 20. They lived in Colchester for five years where she produced three children.

In 1816 she remarried and they lived in High Wycombe. Times were hard in England and in 1820, the family migrated to South Africa to begin a Frontier life in the wilds of the Cape Colony of South Africa taking her eldest child from her first marriage and the three little ones of her second marriage.  She produced six children in all during this marriage.

Her third marriage made in 1824 produced two more children before that husband died very young.
Her fourth marriage was made in 1828 and was the longest. She died age 53 in 1843 far from the cool green fields of her native land.

Sarah Emily Hornblow and her siblings were children of Reverend John Hornblow of Braintree and his wife Elizabeth.

Born in about 1789 in Braintree near Colchester in Essex, She died in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 3^rd November 1842

Her four husbands were :-

GEORGE MOORE, occupation unknown in 1810. They had 3 children. His origins unknown; date of death not yet found.

JOHN HENRY CADLE Tallow Chandler, canteen keeper and road builder and and race track owner in Albany.; married in Deptford 1816. 6 children;

John was drowned on 11th October 1823 when, after 3 years of drought, a tropical storm brought flash flooding to the fledgling community. On 17^th November, her daughter Mary Catherine Moore also died and shortly after that Sarah realised she was carrying John’s 6th child.

There is considerable research on this family.

Origins uncertain, possibly Buckinghamshire.

There is the suspicion that this marriage was bigamous.

1. The record of their marriage show her as Sarah Moore, spinster of the parish of Deptford. It was witnessed by two members of the Hornblow family.
2. She left her two smaller children, John Cotton Moore and Sarah Georgina Moore behind. Her father was dead by 1816 and shortly after that her mother was banished by the Braintree Baptist Church and went to Kentish Town, a very poor part of London. where the Kepple Street Church received her. Where were those children, could they have been with their father?
3. When her daughter SGM married Augustus Pomeroy in 1838 her father’s name is recorded as being present, occupation corn merchant.

(Bigamy was not uncommon in those days before photography and electronic communication. Divorce was prohibitively expensive, and therefore only for the very rich. Ordinary folk simply moved to away to where they were not known and began again. It was a simple enough process when photography was yet to be used in newspapers and vital records were still to be formalised.)

JAMES THOMAS   Builder and Carpenter married Grahamstown Eastern Cape  South Africa .They married on 5^th Feb 1824, nine months after her last Cadle child was born. There were two children born to this union before that husband also died.

CHARLES GURNEY, Druggist from Deal in Kent, married Sarah Emily Thomas on 7 Dec 1828, in Port Elizabeth South Africa. He started out fishing, and smuggling, before he was caught and fined. There after he became respectable and went on to become Market Master.

SARAH'S CHILDREN
The life and story of Sarah Hornblow who became Sarah Cadle , 

Who was one of the 1820 Settlers who went to Albany in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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