Sarah Bach
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William Bach.
William is named in the will of his grandfather, Joseph Bach. William’s children are named in the will of his father, Benjamin Bach.
Mother: Mary.
Mary is named in the baptism records of Sarah's sisters.
Spouse: Thomas Penn (1741 - 1818). Married 29 August 1775 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
The marriage is given in the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. All children were baptized in Bromsgrove.)
Hannah Penn (born 15 January 1777 - died 21 February 1832) married William Ward 11 August 1796 in Bromsgrove.
Thomas Penn (baptized 12 December 1779).
Commentary
The will of Benjamin Bach (made 1788, proved 1792) mentions his granddaughter, “Sarah wife of Thomas Penn”. The will of Benjamin’s father, Joseph Bach, (made 1746, proved 1758) mentions only William as a child of Benjamin. Benjamin had other children, but they had possibly all died by 1746.
Sarah was possibly baptized 3 January 1758 at Birmingham St Martin’s to William and Mary Bach. The same couple seems to have had children baptized in St Martin’s named William and Mary, which are names of two of Sarah’s siblings. Three of William Bach’s children were later married at St Martin’s.
On the other hand, a 1749 baptism has been found for Sarah’s sister, Phoebe Bach, and the order in which the daughters of William Bach are listed in the will of Benjamin Bach implies that Sarah is older than Phoebe.
References
Birmingham, Warwickshire, St Martin’s parish registers; digital image on Ancestry.com (accessed 15 April 2014), citing Anglican Parish Records. Birmingham, England: Library of Birmingham (DRO 34/4; archive roll M175).
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, St John the Baptist parish registers, FHL films 321125, -7, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.