<p>Married in synagog--No.9 Well Street?, in the hamlet of Mile End, Newtown,Whitechaple, Middlesex,in the presence ofJohn Lewis Isaacs, and Moses Levy</p><p><p>Came to Australia on the Barque "Andromeda" which docked in Sydney on the 7th. December 1843. They traveled with Sarah's Mother and Farther and nine of her siblings.</p><p><p>Died in Yass, N.S.W., Inquest Verdict by Jury, "Died From Natural Causes',--Acute Gastritis</p><p><p>Death Certified by John her son who would then be 18 years old.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>BENJAMIN, Sarah (nee LEVEY)</p></p><p><p>b. Whitechapel, 1823-1867 Andromeda, 1843; Free. Married; 8 children.</p></p><p><p>The barque Andiòomeda arrived in Port Jackson on 7 December 1843. On board the ship was the family of Philip Levey, his wife Leah (nee Mordecai), their nine unmarried children, and their daughter Sarah, who had recently married John Benjamin. Sarah and John Benjamin settled in Kooringa, Burra Burra, in South Australia.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Benjamin, son of Emanuel, was married to Sarah Levey, the second child of Philip Levey and his wife Leah (nee Mordecai). Their marriage had been held in London on 21 July 1843 and they arrived in Australia with Sarah's family in December 1843.</p><p><p>John and Sarah Benjamin settled in Burra Burra in South Australia. Two children were born in South Australia, both of whom died in infancy: Henry, on 21 March 1848 at the age of two, and Deborah, on 28 March 1848, aged eight months. The couple had six more children: John Asher Benjamin (13 January 1849) in Goulburn, Philip (1 October 1850), Lydia (25 August 1852), Fanny (16 July 1854), Jane (15 March 1857), and Asher (3 April 1859) in Yass.</p><p><p>John Benjamin died on 11 September 1858, seven months before his last child was born. Sarah moved back to New South Wales, where her younger sister, Hannah Hart, lived in Yass.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>The general store, the Beehive Stores, was owned by `Hart & Benjamin' and concerts and theatrical events were performed in the `magnificent ballroom' at Hart's Royal Hotel. The `Benjamin' was Mrs Sarah Benjamin, the newly widowed wife of John Benjamin (q.v), who had joined the Hart family in Yass and had a commercial store in Cooma Street that sold wines and spirits.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sarah died in Yass on 22 June 1867, at the age of fortyfour, `leaving six orphaned children', according to the inscription on her headstone in the Yass Cemetery.</p><p></p>