Sarah Kershaw (1843-1922)

Sarah Kershaw (1843-1922)

Parents
Sarah was the daughter of Abraham Kershaw (c1820-?) and Sarah Olderen (c1820-?). By 1872 her father was dead and her mother was still living, most likely in Somerville, New Jersey.

Birth
She was born in 1843 according to her marriage certificate.

Siblings
By 1850 the family was living in Manhattan and she appears in the census with the following siblings: Mary Kershaw (1835-?); Israel Kershaw (1840-?); Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) who was born in Glen Cove and married Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921); Ann Kershaw II (1847-?); and Peter Kershaw (1849-?). The family then moved to Somerville, New Jersey by 1865, when she married, and they show up in bank records again in Somerville in 1872.

First marriage
She married Matthew Williamson (1824-1884) around 1865. He was 19 years older then she was.

Somerville, New Jersey
In 1880 they were living in Somerville, New Jersey. Matthew was working as a butcher.

Children
Cornelius M. Williamson (1867-?); George Williamson (1869-?); Ellen M. Williamson (1873-?); and Albert Dunn Williamson (1874-1943) who married Anna Mary George (1877-1968).

Death of husband
He died on March 20, 1884 in Bridgewater.

Second marriage
She married William W. Young (1817-?) on August 27, 1885 in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was 26 years older than she was.

Death
She died in 1922 according to the website, Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.

Memories about Sarah Young
June Nicholls writes in 2010: Sarah died on February 17, 1922, at the home of her son, Albert Dunn Williamson of Garwood, NJ, who was my grandfather. Her death certificate lists her as Sarah Williamson as do cemetery records, and she is buried in a grave marked with a foot stone in the George Williamson plot in Fairview Cemetery, Westfield, NJ. Her death certificate shows her father as Chas Kershaw, which I interpreted to be Charles Kershaw, her age as 79 years and 1 month and her birthplace as Yonkers, NY. I have been searching in vain for years for Charles Kershaw. When I was a young girl in the late 1930's, I can remember my grandmother, who was the daughter-in-law of Sarah Williamson, reminiscing about Grandma Young, and I have assumed that Grandma Young was probably Sarah's mother, and that Young was her maiden name.