Gibbs Family Tree
Sarah Eleanor Wentworth
1835 - 1857 (22 years)
Generation: 1
1. Sarah Eleanor Wentworth was born on 2 Aug 1835 in Vaucluse House, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia; died on 23 Dec 1857 in Corfu, Greece; was buried in Wentworth Mausoleum, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia. Notes:
From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199524995/sarah-eleanor-wentworth
Sarah's original headstone still stands in the old British cemetery on the Greek island of Corfu. After the death of her father in March 1872, in accordance with his wishes, her mother commissioned the construction of a grand mausoleum in Vaucluse, NSW. Sarah's parents were living in England when her father died, and her mother wrote to Australia that she would travel to Brussels to order marble for the mausoleum. It would appear that while in Europe she also organised the repatriation of her daughter's remains, as the Corfu headstone bears a supplementary inscription: "The Remains of the above named were removed from the old British Cemetery to Sydney, N.S.Wales, 1872."
Death Notice:
"On the 23rd December, on her way to Palermo, for the benefit
of her health, Sarah Eleanor, third daughter of W. C. Wentworth,
Esq., aged 23 years."
The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 17 Mar 1858, Page 1, Family Notices.