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George and Sarah Dobbs nee Kitchen George Dobbs was born in 1840 as he was christened on 23 April 1841 in North Elkington, Lincolnshire, the eldest child of seven of Joseph and Rebecca Dobbs nee Dalton. His father was an agricultural labourer, and yet George was to go on to have his own farm. He married Sarah Kitchen on 26 August 1862 in Belleau, Louth, Lincolnshire, and by the time of the 1871 census they lived in Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire, where George was a farming foreman. Their daughter Martha had been born in 1863. By 1881 George and his small family had moved to Warwickshire: he was farming 100 acres at Blackdown, Leamington. Ten years later he farmed Waverley House Farm in Stoneleigh, and it was here that he died aged just 54 on 24 July 1894. He was buried at Stoneleigh on 28 July. On his headstone is inscribed: Sarah is also commemorated on the stone. Her parentage is unknown although she was born on 23 January 1843 in Barton, Lincolnshire. She had been a housemaid before her marriage and after she was widowed she first kept the New Inn, Bromsgrove, with her daughter Martha. However, by the time of the 1911 census she was keeping a boarding house in Skegness. Her daughter had now married and had a child, and they all lived together, with several boarders. Sarah's date of death on 12 April 1914, like the dates of her birth and marriage, is sourced from a family Bible, which also states that she is buried with her husband at Stoneleigh. She was buried on 13 April and the register notes that her final address was Warwick Workhouse Infirmary.