Sarah Flay

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glanville.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Sarah Flay was born between 1795 and 1796 at MDX, ENG.
     She married Richard Glanville in January 1824 at St James parish church, Clerkenwell, MDX, ENG, after banns, both of this parish, bachelor and spinster. Banns read 21 & 28 Dec, 4 Jan 1824.
     She died circa May 1847 at Westminster registered, MDX, ENG; recorded age 52.

Other information

     On 2 December 1824 the proceeding of the Old Bailey record an indictment against John Clark for arson.
Part of the witness testimony included:
RICHARD GLANVILLE . I and my wife lodged at Clark's, and on this night, about half an hour before the alarm was given, as I went in at the private door, I perceived a great smell of turpentine, as I thought; an alarm was given about eight o'clock - it appeared to come from the street. I put my wife out on the leads, at the second floor back window - then returned to save some of my goods; the fire encreased, and I got out of the front window, and climbed on a sign-board - I was burnt a good deal, and was in the hospital above a fortnight - Clark was in the shop at the time. I went in at the private door. I did not see him for a fortnight after, when he came to me at the hospital; there was no stock kept on the leads, except a stone bottle or so.

SARAH GLANVILLE . I am the wife of the last witness. I smelt something like turpentine, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon on this day - the smell continued. I escaped with some difficulty; the prisoner's wife had left the house a week or a fortnight before the fire; he kept a shop boy, whom I have not seen since. I was in Clark's bed-room two or three months before the fire - I did not observe any boxes of candles there.

Cross-examined. Q. Did you speak to him about the smell? A. No.

John Clark was found Not Guilty.