The book "Sarah Ann Dobbs" describes the extraordinary life of a
Victorian lady told by her autograph Album. Over 150 years old, the
autograph Album of Sarah Dobbs containing beautifully handwritten poems,
dating from 1862 to 1871, is a remarkable and fascinating document of
the Victorian age. By steamship it made its way from Wales, UK, to the
USA around 1868 as its owner Sarah Dobbs immigrated as one of the early
pioneers to Kansas, USA. This book contains all Album entries, for
better reading they were transcribed and where possible identified. The
author also added a genealogy research, underlined by newspaper articles
which were all transcribed, of Sarah Dobbs, her family and the family of
her husband Henry Poolly Cooper. Before their immigration to the USA
both of them lived in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Sarah Dobbs as
innkeeper daughter of the White Hart Inn, Beaufort Square, Chepstow,
Wales, UK.