Higgins, Sarah (1830–1923)
Higgins, Sarah (1830–1923)
New Zealand writer and midwife. Name variations: Sarah Sharp. Born Sarah Sharp, Jan 30, 1830, in Kent, England; died Sept 23, 1923, at Belgrove, Waimea South, New Zealand; dau of Stephen Sharp (laborer) and Mary Ann (Emery) Sharp; m. Sydney Higgins (sawyer), 1849; children: 11.
Immigrated with family to New Zealand (1842); worked as domestic servant; served as nurse, 1st with local physician and then on own, and as midwife to more than 350 births; learned to write in her 70s and wrote history of her life at83.
See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 1).
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