She met her husband, Alfred Scales, at Airedale College, the academy where her uncle Walter Scott was principal. She was age 24 when she married at the Independent Chapel at Alston in 1843.The witnesses were local minister Rev. Jonathan Harper, brother, Robert Simpson Scales, and siblings Hannah Dickenson and William Dickenson. The Minister was her father-in-law, Thomas Scales from Leeds.
In 1852, when Sarah and Alfred had five children, two daughters and three sons, they felt that they could not afford to educate them in England and decided to emigrate to gold-rush Victoria.
They had not gone far when the baby, aged 7 months, contracted typhoid and died. Constance, the eldest, aged 7, had assisted her mother in nursing the sick infant and also died. On reaching Cape Town, Sarah decided to leave the ship while Alfred continued on. During the year that she remained in South Africa the oldest son, aged 3, died and she only had two children
left when she reached Melbourne. After settling in Geelong, another five children were born, the four girls surviving.
Sarah wrote an account of the death of her children. She died at Surry Hills in Melbourne in 1884, aged 63.
In 1852, when Sarah and Alfred had five children, two daughters and three sons, they felt that they could not afford to educate them in England and decided to emigrate to gold-rush Victoria.
They had not gone far when the baby, aged 7 months, contracted typhoid and died. Constance, the eldest, aged 7, had assisted her mother in nursing the sick infant and also died. On reaching Cape Town, Sarah decided to leave the ship while Alfred continued on. During the year that she remained in South Africa the oldest son, aged 3, died and she only had two children
Sarah wrote an account of the death of her children. She died at Surry Hills in Melbourne in 1884, aged 63.
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