Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Sarah Lusted

1846 –12/08/1940

Housemaid and second wife of Stephen Lusted

Relatives

Stephen Lusted — husband

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 585 Sarah Lusted (nee Hawes) (1846-1940) 

Sarah was born in Berkhamsted in 1846, the daughter of Joseph and Martha Hawes. Her father was a gardener born in Great Gaddesden, her mother had been born in Chichester, Sussex.

Sarah became a housemaid and in 1871 was employed by elderly spinster Henrietta Gambier and her brother, a retired admiral, at their house in the High Street.

By 1891 she had returned home to live with her parents in Victoria Road and remained there after her father’s death.

In 1919, aged 73, she married widower Stephen Lusted, a wheelwright and they lived at 9, Park Street. Sadly he died the next year and is buried here.

Sarah remained at 9, Park Street where she died 12 August 1940, aged 94. She left just over £1,000, with probate granted to two of her step-sons.

Stephen Lusted

1850 –21-031920

A carpenter and wheelwright

Relatives

Sarah Lusted — wife

Harriett Lusted — wife

Ethel Catherine Lusted — daughter

Beatrice Lusted — daughter

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 585 Stephen Alexander Lusted

Born 1850, Glynde, Sussex, to Stephen and Mary Ann Pettit Lusted. His father was a carpenter.

By 1861 his father had become a wheelwright as well as a carpenter and Stephen was to follow that trade.

In 1877 he married Harriet Holliday, the daughter and sister of Berkhamsted wheelwrights, in the town and joined his brother-in-law George Holliday in the family business.

William was born in 1882, followed by Frederick (1884) and Mary (1885).

Beatrice was born in 1886, but sadly died aged only 2 in October 1888.

Horace was born 1889 and Ethel Caroline in 1891. Tragically Ethel died before her first birthday, the same year as Arthur Stanley was born.

Their last child, David Thomas, was born in 1893 but Harriet died on 4 December that year in Charles Street aged only 36. She is buried in plot 138 with her parents and her two infant daughters.

The 1901 census shows that Stephen had moved back to Glyne, With him were his six surviving children and his unmarried sister Eliza who was probably keeping house for him.. He was continuing his trade as a wheelwright and his two eldest sons, William and Frederick, were working with him.

Ten years later Frederick and Stanley were working with their father as wheelwrights. Also at home were Horace, a land agent’s clerk, and David a sign writer. Eliza was still living with them. The same year William married and Stephen’s occupation was given on the marriage certificate as “Mechanic” – perhaps he was branching out with the coming of the internal combustion engine.

Something prompted a return to Berkhamsted and in 1919 Stephen married again in the town at the age of 67 to Sarah Hawes.

The marriage was to be short-lived and Stephen died at 9, Park Street 21 March 1920

Sarah survived him until 1940 and is buried here with him.