Sarah Cockayne was born 16 May 1776 Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, and died in 1837, during the immigration of her family from England to the United States. She was buried at sea a few days before the ship docked in New York.
Sarah Cockayne descended from the line of Ashbourne Cockaynes and lived a genteel life, but without the trappings of a castle or great estate and exceptional riches. That had been lost by her great uncle, the poet and gambler, Sir Ashton Cockayne.
She married, on 23 May 1797, to Thomas Hall of Muggington, Derbyshire, England. Thomas was born in Muggington in about 1761. The Halls were a landed family whose manorial home, Mansell Park, was in Hulland, County Derbyshire, England. They left that comfortable home and immigrated to the United States due to severe financial problems facing the family. This fine estate had also fallen upon difficult times.
In their old age, beset by financial problems, Sarah and Thomas Hall and all but one of their children, Henry, immigrated to America where they could get a fresh start.
Henry started a shipping agency known as Henry Hall and son and then organized the passages and shipping for his parents and brothers and sisters who came to America. After his death, his shipping agency was taken over by his son-in-law John Payne-Hall and after his retirement, it was taken over and operated by his daughter Kathleen Payne-Hall. Kathleen had never married and upon her retirement in the 1960s there were no heirs to take it over so the business was sold.
During the long, six-week journey Sarah became very seasick. It is written that her health had already been failing and she became exhausted and died at sea in the early summer of 1837, a few days before the ship reached New York harbor. She had a shipboard funeral. Her body was sewn up in sailcloth and it was weighted so it would sink to the ocean. As her body was carried past Thomas his final tribute to Sarah was "Farewell thou best of women."
Sarah Cockayne and Thomas Hall had 13 children.
-Information from the Stephen-Picek Genealogy and Family History book by Vince Falter
Sarah Cockayne descended from the line of Ashbourne Cockaynes and lived a genteel life, but without the trappings of a castle or great estate and exceptional riches. That had been lost by her great uncle, the poet and gambler, Sir Ashton Cockayne.
She married, on 23 May 1797, to Thomas Hall of Muggington, Derbyshire, England. Thomas was born in Muggington in about 1761. The Halls were a landed family whose manorial home, Mansell Park, was in Hulland, County Derbyshire, England. They left that comfortable home and immigrated to the United States due to severe financial problems facing the family. This fine estate had also fallen upon difficult times.
In their old age, beset by financial problems, Sarah and Thomas Hall and all but one of their children, Henry, immigrated to America where they could get a fresh start.
Henry started a shipping agency known as Henry Hall and son and then organized the passages and shipping for his parents and brothers and sisters who came to America. After his death, his shipping agency was taken over by his son-in-law John Payne-Hall and after his retirement, it was taken over and operated by his daughter Kathleen Payne-Hall. Kathleen had never married and upon her retirement in the 1960s there were no heirs to take it over so the business was sold.
During the long, six-week journey Sarah became very seasick. It is written that her health had already been failing and she became exhausted and died at sea in the early summer of 1837, a few days before the ship reached New York harbor. She had a shipboard funeral. Her body was sewn up in sailcloth and it was weighted so it would sink to the ocean. As her body was carried past Thomas his final tribute to Sarah was "Farewell thou best of women."
Sarah Cockayne and Thomas Hall had 13 children.
-Information from the Stephen-Picek Genealogy and Family History book by Vince Falter
Sarah Cockayne was born 16 May 1776 Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, and died in 1837, during the immigration of her family from England to the United States. She was buried at sea a few days before the ship docked in New York.
Sarah Cockayne descended from the line of Ashbourne Cockaynes and lived a genteel life, but without the trappings of a castle or great estate and exceptional riches. That had been lost by her great uncle, the poet and gambler, Sir Ashton Cockayne.
She married, on 23 May 1797, to Thomas Hall of Muggington, Derbyshire, England. Thomas was born in Muggington in about 1761. The Halls were a landed family whose manorial home, Mansell Park, was in Hulland, County Derbyshire, England. They left that comfortable home and immigrated to the United States due to severe financial problems facing the family. This fine estate had also fallen upon difficult times.
In their old age, beset by financial problems, Sarah and Thomas Hall and all but one of their children, Henry, immigrated to America where they could get a fresh start.
Henry started a shipping agency known as Henry Hall and son and then organized the passages and shipping for his parents and brothers and sisters who came to America. After his death, his shipping agency was taken over by his son-in-law John Payne-Hall and after his retirement, it was taken over and operated by his daughter Kathleen Payne-Hall. Kathleen had never married and upon her retirement in the 1960s there were no heirs to take it over so the business was sold.
During the long, six-week journey Sarah became very seasick. It is written that her health had already been failing and she became exhausted and died at sea in the early summer of 1837, a few days before the ship reached New York harbor. She had a shipboard funeral. Her body was sewn up in sailcloth and it was weighted so it would sink to the ocean. As her body was carried past Thomas his final tribute to Sarah was "Farewell thou best of women."
Sarah Cockayne and Thomas Hall had 13 children.
-Information from the Stephen-Picek Genealogy and Family History book by Vince Falter
Sarah Cockayne descended from the line of Ashbourne Cockaynes and lived a genteel life, but without the trappings of a castle or great estate and exceptional riches. That had been lost by her great uncle, the poet and gambler, Sir Ashton Cockayne.
She married, on 23 May 1797, to Thomas Hall of Muggington, Derbyshire, England. Thomas was born in Muggington in about 1761. The Halls were a landed family whose manorial home, Mansell Park, was in Hulland, County Derbyshire, England. They left that comfortable home and immigrated to the United States due to severe financial problems facing the family. This fine estate had also fallen upon difficult times.
In their old age, beset by financial problems, Sarah and Thomas Hall and all but one of their children, Henry, immigrated to America where they could get a fresh start.
Henry started a shipping agency known as Henry Hall and son and then organized the passages and shipping for his parents and brothers and sisters who came to America. After his death, his shipping agency was taken over by his son-in-law John Payne-Hall and after his retirement, it was taken over and operated by his daughter Kathleen Payne-Hall. Kathleen had never married and upon her retirement in the 1960s there were no heirs to take it over so the business was sold.
During the long, six-week journey Sarah became very seasick. It is written that her health had already been failing and she became exhausted and died at sea in the early summer of 1837, a few days before the ship reached New York harbor. She had a shipboard funeral. Her body was sewn up in sailcloth and it was weighted so it would sink to the ocean. As her body was carried past Thomas his final tribute to Sarah was "Farewell thou best of women."
Sarah Cockayne and Thomas Hall had 13 children.
-Information from the Stephen-Picek Genealogy and Family History book by Vince Falter
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