Sarah Hazlewood b. 22 Dec 1844 Somosomo, Cakaudrove, Fiji d. 16 May 1925 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1844 - 1925 (80 years)

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Name	Sarah Hazlewood
Born	22 Dec 1844	Somosomo, Cakaudrove, Fiji
Gender	Female
Died	16 May 1925	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Person ID	I03730	Family Tree
Last Modified	1 Mar 2020

Father	David Hazlewood, b. 8 Jan 1820, Fakenham Magna, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom , d. 30 Oct 1855, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia (Age 35 years)
Mother	Jane McIntyre, b. Aug 1812, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom , d. 23 Feb 1849, Nadi, Ba Province, Fiji (Age 36 years)
Married	25 Feb 1844	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	David needed a wife so he could go to Fiji as a missionary and married Jane after a courtship of three months.
Family ID	F1269	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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	Born - 22 Dec 1844 - Somosomo, Cakaudrove, Fiji
	Died - 16 May 1925 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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IN MEMORIAM MISS SARAH HAZLEWOOD.
The decease, on the 16th May last, of Miss Sarah Hazlewood, revives missionary history. For Miss Hazlewood was the eldest child of Rev. David Hazlewood, of Fiji fame. Her distinguished father was married on February 8, 1844, to Miss Jane McIntyre, by Rev. J. McKenny, in the old Princes Street Chapel. He was ordained the same day as the late Rev. John Watsford. These two missionaries went to Fiji together, and arrived in Viwa on the 10th August, 1844. Miss Sarah Hazlewood was born on December 22, 1844, at Somo-somo, Fiji.
The Rev. D. Hazlewood made a definite mark on Fiji missions, for it was he who compiled the excellent grammar and dictionary which has been used ever since by Government officials and missionaries alike. No subsequent attempt has ever superseded it. Mr. Hazlewood also was the first to translate the Old Testament (with the exception of Pss. 1-28) into the native tongue. This translation was probably used in the first printed bible, though the latter departed considerably from Mr. Hazlewood 's work. Miss Hazlewood inherited all her father 's missionary zeal. Her ardour displayed itself in wide sympathy for the work of God either abroad or at home. She was well-known as the matron of the C.M.M. Hojne for the Sisters.
On her retirement to Epping she continued to subscribe liberally from her slender resources to Foreign and Home Missions, besides numerous charities. Towards the end of her life she became very frail, but she had much peace of heart. Her decease came suddenly, as she could have wished, at the residence of her half-brother, Mr. D. Hazlewood, who is the last surviving member of the missionary's family. At the grave-side, the Rev. W. Deane (who married a granddaughter of the Rev. John Watsford) com-mitted the remains to the ground. The Revs. J. W. Collier and G. Cranston (Presbyterian) also took part. There were representatives of six missionary families present to pay their last respects to a worthy daughter of a singularly useful and devoted missionary. IN MEMORIAM (1925, June 27). The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954), p. 13.