Born: 31 August 1873, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 4 April 1875, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Father: Frederick Adam Weiss, 1839-1931
Mother: Rosetta Horsey, 1842-1827
Died: 4 April 1875, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Father: Frederick Adam Weiss, 1839-1931
Mother: Rosetta Horsey, 1842-1827
Biographical information
Sarah’s story is tragic, just like her older brother Frederick’s. It was relatively common before the advent of vaccines to expose children to certain diseases, such as measles and chicken pox, which were relatively worse in adulthood, in order for the children to develop an immunity to that disease. When neighbours down the road got the measles, their mother took Sarah and Frederick to visit, so that they could be exposed to the disease. Both Sarah and Frederick contracted the measles from this exposure, but sadly they also both died from it. Frederick died first on 20 March, and by the time Sarah died the family had travelled from Rockley, in country New South Wales, where they lived, to Sydney, to stay with Rosetta’s family. Sarah was buried on 5 April, with the funeral leaving from her maternal grandmother’s house on Liverpool and Macquarie Streets, Sydney. It proceded to Rookwood Cemetery, where she is buried in the Old Ground section.
Frederick and Sarah's mother Rosetta blamed herself for the death of her two children for the rest of her life.
