Sarah Ann Pratten
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ca. 1837 — 21 November 1859
Sarah Ann Pratten (29A)
Headstone and Footstone
Sarah Ann Pratten's headstone and footstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2023.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 21 November 1859
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as Sarah Ann Pratten
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2023
Inscription
Headstone
Sacred
to the memory of
Sarah Ann Pratten
Who departed this Life
21st Nov 1859
aged 23 years
She is not dead but sleepeth
Footstone
S.A.P.
1859
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FELONIOUS ATTEMPT.-William George Hoare was, on Wednesday last, committed, by the Brisbane Bench, to take his trial for assaulting Sarah Ann Pratten, a girl about fourteen years old, and daughter of his employer, Mr. Job Pratten, at Cowper's Plains, on Sunday evening last, with intent to commit a capital felony.
Death registration: Sarah Ann Pratten
Death date: 21/11/1859
Mother's name: Anne Love
Father/parent's name: Job Pratten
Registration details: 1859/B/402
DEATH.
At Coopers' Plains, on Monday, the 21st day of November, Sarah Ann, the youngest daughter of Mr. Job Pratten, aged 22 years ; beloved and lamented by all who knew her.
A girl named Sarah Ann Pratten died in 1859, aged 23 the age— from 23 to 26 — fatal to so many of the young women in the early days, Miss Pratten was an aunt of F. L. Pratten, the present Deputy Registrar of Titles in Brisbane. Her father, the granddad of the present Prattens, came to Brisbane in the forties, and was farming at Cowper's Plains, to-day erroniously called "Cooper's Plains;" though named after Dr. Cowper, the first medical officer in the convict settlement at Moreton Bay. Pratten senior died at the Plains, and was buried there.