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Originally Posted by Merry
I may be misunderstanding, but why would you need to be rich to make a servant pregnant?
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My theory about Sarah and Arthur Sr is just a hunch Merry, but since you asked about my reasoning - its a genealogy wives tale and sometimes truth that the 'young masters' of the manor slept with the female servants. Although just a fabricated story in my head, the idea of the squire's son being intimate with a seemingly non-Christian servant (going by her surname) then shirking his duties and not appearing on the baptism years later just seems to make sense, even though I have no real evidence to back it up. I do know for sure that Arthur Snr did father her child though.