Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee was baptised in December 1760  at St Peter, Birstall Parish in Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Abraham Lee of Heckmondwike and we believe she was the young woman who married Rev. Robert Simpson at this church by licence in 1780 in the presence of George Scott and Thomas Thompson. She signed her name with a mark. I have a note that her sister was married to a nephew of James Scott, the principal of the Heckmondwike theological academy.
Robert had just completed his studies at Heckmondwike  and was taking up his first post in the village of Haslingden in Lancashire. They moved to Bolton, where Robert was ordained in 1782, and their eldest daughter Christiana was born in 1786. A large family followed with nine children recorded but the Surman index suggests that Sarah had 12.
In 1791, the family moved to Hoxton Square in London and remained there. Sarah outlived her husband by seven years. They are buried at Bunhill Fields Burying Ground.
A Memoir of Rev. Robert Simpson in Fathers and Founders of the London Missionary Society [1844] ends -
In comparatively early life Dr. Simpson entered into conjugal relation with a lady of truly amiable character, and distinguished piety, with whom he lived in unbroken harmony and love to the close of his earthly pilgrimage. He was much blessed in his children, several of whom survived to emulate the virtues of their revered parent, and occupy spheres of honour and usefulness in the church and in the world.