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1. George Roberts
   1. Ann Sweetland
      1. George Roberts
      2. Elizabeth Roberts
      3. James Moxey Roberts
      4. John Sweetland Roberts
      5. Thomas Moxey Roberts
      6. Robert Roberts
      7. Sarah Ann Moxey Roberts
         1. Edward Thomas Sweetland
            1. George Edmund Sweetland
            2. Thomas Albert Sweetland
            3. Sarah Ann Sweetland
            4. Francis Arthur Sweetland
            5. Clara Sweetland
            6. Florence Sweetland
         2. 1. Ada Annie Sweetland
      8. Thomas Christopher Hunt Roberts
      9. Henry Roberts
      10. Emily Roberts

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Source References

1. General Register Office: England & Wales Marriage Index
2. 1861 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG9/1394/92/17
3. Maiden name on child's birth index record
4. 1871 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG10/2062/74/19
5. 1891 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG12/1688/78/36
6. 1901 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG13/2041/47/28
7. 1911 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG14/12654/114
8. UK Government: National Probate Calendar
   1. • Date: 2 May 1925
      • Page: Sarah Ann Moxey Sweetland
      • Citation:

        SWEETLAND Sarah Ann Moxey of Ferndale Honiton Clyst Devonshire widow died 2 April 1925 at 114 Blackboy-road Exeter Administration (with Will) Exeter 2 May to Francis Arthur Sweetland tailor. Effects £49 10s. 11d.

   2. • Date: 23 June 1868
      • Page: Edward Thomas Sweetland
      • Citation:

        SWEETLAND Edward Thomas.
        23 June.
        The Will with three Codicils of Edward Thomas Sweetland late of 3 St. John's-terrace in the Parish of St. Sidwell in the County of the City of Exeter Newspaper Proprietor and General Printer deceased who died 23 May 1868 at 3 St. John's-terrace aforesaid was proved at Exeter by the oaths of John Thomas Tucker of 243 High-street in the City aforesaid Jeweller and Laceman Robert Channon Johnson of St. Sidwell aforesaid Accountant and Sarah Ann Moxey Sweetland of 3 St. John's-terrace aforesaid Widow the Relict (during Widowhood) the Executors.

        Effects under £3,000.
        Resworn at the Stamp Office March 1873 under £1,500

9. General Register Office: England & Wales Death Index
10. findmypast.co.uk / Devon FHS: Parish Registers - Devon
    1. • Date: 3 August 1873
       • Page: Baptism - Sarah Ann Sweetland (Exeter St James)
    2. • Date: 3 August 1873
       • Page: Baptism - Clara Sweetland (Exeter St James)
    3. • Date: 3 August 1873
       • Page: Baptism - Florence Sweetland (Exeter St James)
    4. • Date: 3 August 1873
       • Page: Baptism - Ada Annie Sweetland (Exeter St James)
    5. • Date: 11 April 1875
       • Page: Baptism - Francis Arthur Sweetland (Exeter St James)
    6. • Date: 28 April 1856
       • Page: Marriage - Edward Thomas Sweetland / Sarah Ann Moxey Roberts (St Thomas Exeter)
11. Western Times
    1. • Date: 3 May 1856
       • Page: Page 5
       • Citation:

         [MARRIAGES.]

         April 28, at St. Thomas, Mr. E. T. Sweetland, of the Western Times Office, to Sarah Ann Moxey, second daughter of the late Mr. George Roberts, of Exwick Farm, Exwick.

    2. • Date: 9 April 1925
       • Page: Page 8
       • Citation:

         OLD LADY'S DEATH

         Cruel to Remove Her From Honiton Clyst

         AN EXETER INQUEST

         An inquest was held at the Court House, Exeter, on Saturday, touching the death of Mrs. Sarah Ann Moxton Sweetland, aged 91, late of Thorndale, Honiton Clyst, who died at a nursing home in Exeter on Thursday.

         The body was identified by Charlie Edwin Hawkins Moore, of Thorndale, Honiton Clyst, as his mother-in-law. He said that she had been living with him for between three and four years, and had enjoyed remarkably good health for her age, but during the last six months she was helped about by his wife.

         In answer to the Coroner's (Mr. W. Linford Brown) question concerning the health of his wife, Mr. Moore said she had been failing for about six months, and now she was completely run down. That was the reason he had had his mother-in-law removed to Nurse Gale's House in Blackboy-road on Wednesday last.

         The Coroner: Did you ask a doctor whether it was well to move her? - No, sir. She didn't seem to want it.

         On witness saying that neither he nor his wife had gone out to see the old lady off, the Coroner remarked that it was rather a cheerless going away. Witness replied that his wife was broken down, and he was with her in another room.

         He came to Exeter on Thursday, and was told by his brother-in-law, who lived at St. Sidwell's, that the old lady had passed away.

         The Coroner: When was the last time the old lady went out? - Oh, when the cold weather began, about September.

         Do you think it a right and proper thing to remove an old lady, who had not been out of the house since the cold weather began? - Yes, sir. My wife was broken down.

         At the conclusion of the witness's evidence, the Coroner remarked that in his opinion the man had been very cruel to his mother-in-law.

         Dr. P. Grey said deceased's heart was greatly enlarged and excessively fatty, and the arteries were thickened. That, he said, was due to senile decay. He attributed death to heart failure.

         In reply to the Coroner's question as to whether he considered her removal justified, the doctor said she must have been very near the end.

         Nurse Gale, 114, Blackboy-road, to whose house deceased was taken, said until very near the end, and even in the ambulance, deceased was very bright. She passed the first night comfortably. About 9.30 a.m. witness saw she was crying, and fetched Dr. Dodd.

         Sergt. B. Arnold, St. John Ambulance Brigade, said he brought deceased to Exeter, and she seemed very bright. He would not have undertaken the removal on his own authority, however.

         The Coroner, in returing a verdict of "Death from natural causes, due to fatty degeneration of the heart," said it appeared to him that more care should have been taken. It seemed very unkind to the old lady so far. "I hope," said Mr. Brown, "I shall not get any more of this sort of removal case."

    3. • Date: 30 March 1885
       • Page: Page 3
       • Citation:

         GUILDHALL.

         SATURDAY. - Present: W. R. Bradbeer, Esq. (in the chair), the Mayor (W. Brown, Esq.), W. Brock, W. Davy, and H. Hughes, Esqrs.

         Ada Annie Sweetland, a respectably dressed girl, aged 16 of Blackboy-road, was charged with obtaining 1s under false pretences. It appears that defendant went to an old woman named Elizabeth Northam, living at Lant's Almshouses, and stated that she was the daughter of Mr. E. A. Sanders, Stoke House, and had just returned from school. She promised the old woman that she would send her a fowl or a rabbit, and asked her to lend her 1s to pay a boy who was holding her carriage horses. Neither the money had been repaid nor had the rabbit or fowl been received by Mrs. Northam. - Mrs. Sweetland, who was in Court, said she thought that her daughter's mind was affected. More than one of her children were so afflicted, one being in an asylum. - Inspector Symes asked that the case might be adjourned until Tuesday for the production of further evidence. The Bench remanded the prisoner, accepting bail in the sum of £10.

12. Exeter City Council: Higher Cemetery burial index cards
    1. • Page: Sweetland
13. Western Morning News
    1. • Date: 7 April 1925
       • Page: Page 9
       • Citation:

         OLD LADY'S REMOVAL TO A HOME.

         CORONER'S COMMENTS AT EXETER INQUEST.

         Mr. W. Linford Brown (Exeter city coroner) held an inquest on Saturday on Sarah Ann Maxton Sweetland, aged 91, late of Honiton Clyst, who died at an Exeter nursing home two days previously.

         Charlie E. H. Moore, of Ferndale, Honiton Clyst, said deceased, his mother-in-law, had lived with him for three or four years. Up to six months ago she was capable of looking after herself, but since then his wife had to help her about. His wife had been in failing health for about six months.

         Witness arranged with deceased's son to have her brought to the nursing home on the previous Tuesday, and she was conveyed in by Sergt. Arnold, of the St. John Ambulance, and two nurses. She did not seem to need a doctor. His wife did not see the old lady off because she had broken down.

         The Coroner said he thought witness had been very cruel to deceased.

         Dr. P. Gray attributed death to heart failure. Replying to the Coroner, he said he thought on removal deceased must have been very near the end. Personally he wished they had kept her for a little longer. It was not the sort of thing he would have recommended at her age; it would have been much wiser to have had a doctor.

         After further evidence the Coroner said he thought more care might have been taken. It seemed very unkind to send the old lady so far; they might have got accommodation nearer.

         A verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned.

    2. • Date: 30 March 1885
       • Page: Page 6
       • Citation:

         SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A GIRL AT EXETER.

         At the Guildhall, Exeter, on Saturday morning, Ada Annie Sweetland, daughter of a widow of respectable position, residing in Hopkins-place, Blackboy-road, was placed in the dock on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. Sufficient evidence was given to justify the prisoner being remanded, the effect of it being that on the previous day she called on an elderly woman, named Elizabeth Northam, the occupant of an almshouse, stating that she was the daughter of Mr. Edward Sanders, banker, and had been sent by him to say that a fowl would be sent by her father in the afternoon. In the course of conversation she asked Northam if she could change half a crown. While the latter was looking for the change the prisoner said, "Oh, never mind, you can let me have a shilling, and I will send it back with the fowl." She added that she wanted the shiling to give a boy who was looking after her horse and carriage, which was just round the corner, and further explained that the coachman and groom had gone to get some refreshment. The shilling was advanced, and the prisoner had not been seen again until the fraud was discovered. - Inspector Symes said there were other charges of a similar character against Sweetland. - Prisoner's mother, who was in court, and appeared very much distressed, said she had several children, and they were all more or less afflicted. Her eldest daughter was in an asylum, she had another in the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, and two boys at home who ought to be sent away. - The Bench admitted prisoner to bail on her mother's recognisances, the case being adjourned until to-morrow.

14. Exeter Flying Post
    1. • Date: 15 April 1885
       • Page: Page 8
       • Citation:

         EXETER QUARTER SESSIONS.

         The Easter Quarter Sessions for the City of Exeter were held on Thursday before the Recorder (A. J. H. Collins, Esq. Q.C.), who was accompanied on the Bench by the Mayor (W. Brown, Esq.), the Sheriff (A. J. Hamilton, Esq.), the Under-Sheriff (W. L. Brown, Esq.), the Mayor's Chaplain (Rev. M. H. Lee Pla), W. H. Ellis, J. Lang.

         GRAND JURY :- Henry Braund (foreman), R. Blackburn, J. Webber, J. Bastow, S. A. A. Aviolet, R. Grenfell, W. Badcock, H. Lamacraft, J. Honey, J. Lethbridge, R. Yendall, S. Jerred, A. Lawrence, W. Guest, A. Fraser, H. Newcombe, S. Gimblett, W. Southwood, G. B. Carlile, J. Hayman, F. Parrin, and G. Sercombe.

         The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said he was glad to inform them that their duties, as they usually were in this city, would be very light. There were two prisoners to be tried. He did not think they would have any doubt as to the case of Mary Delane, who was charged with stealing an ulster. There was another very sad case which they would have to investigate, in which a young girl named Ada Annie Sweetland, who, according to the calendar, was only 14 years of age, was charged upon three several counts, two of them for felony, and one for obtaining money by false pretences.

         [...]

         ADA ANNIE SWEETLAND, 14, was charged on three separate counts with stealing a silver bracelet from Mr. B. W. Nix, High-street, another bracelet from Mr. J. E. Lake, and with obtaining from Elizabeth Northey, the sum of 1s. by false pretences. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. McKellar, who was instructed to prosecute, stated that the police had informed him that they had twenty cases of false pretence if the Court were not satisfied with one. Mrs. Sweetland was called, and stated that her daughter was 14 on Sunday. - The Recorder asked if she could account for her daughter's conduct which had been very bad? - Mrs. Sweetland stated that her daughter had been regularly to school. It was a family affliction. She was an exceedingly nice girl, and had always been a most dutiful child. She had two imbecile sisters. They had noticed that she had been strange in her manner of late, but not to the extent that would lead anyone to suppose she would commit these thefts. She thought that if the Recorder knew the surroundings of the girl he would have some sympathy for her. - The Recorder said it was a very sad thing to see a girl of her age commencing life with a series of crimes. He must punish her, but he was going to take a merciful course to see if she could be prevented from falling into a life of crime, which she surely would if she were permitted to remain in the city. He should give her the shortest term of imprisonment that he could - fourteen days; this would be without hard labour, and the Governor of the Gaol informed him that she would not be put with the other prisoners. At the expiration of that sentence she would be sent to a Reformatory for four years. He hoped that would give her a chance of redeeming her character. - The girl left the dock sobbing bitterly.

15. 1881 United Kingdom Census
    1. • Page: RG11/2150/121/25 f.
16. 1921 United Kingdom Census
    1. • Page: RG15/10366/366
17. 1851 United Kingdom Census
    1. • Page: HO107/1867/114/33
18. 1841 United Kingdom Census
    1. • Page: HO107/262/4/7/8