The ward of court who married mid-lawsuit
Sarah McIntosh
1823–?
The youngest child — whose own wedding, in the middle of the family’s lawsuit, briefly threw the case into chaos.
- Married
- William Pymble
Sarah, the youngest, was born 21 July 1823 in Sydney and baptised the same day. She married William Pymble — a name already in the family, since her brother Robert had married a Jane Pymble in 1830 — on 25 October 1842, at the Scots Church Presbyterian, Sydney.
That timing mattered more than it might seem. A month earlier, on 20 September 1842, Sarah had been named as one of the plaintiffs in the equity suit her siblings brought against their brother Robert — which made her, as a minor, a ward of the Court. Marrying without the Court’s permission while a case she was party to was still live threw the proceedings into a genuine procedural tangle, one the presiding judge had to untangle before the case could go on.