Brightwen, Hannah Sarah (1808-1882), artist

Hannah Sarah Turner was born on 14 March 1808. She married Thomas Brightwen at St Nicholas's church, Yarmouth, on 24 August 1839. The couple had just one child, Thomas Edward Palgrave Brightwen, born on 4 April 1843, who died in his third year on 22 March 1846. Hannah died at the age of 73 on 2 March 1882.

‘Mrs. Thomas Brightwen, as Miss H. S. Turner, made a number of drawings, which were after-wards privately issued with the title, “Sixty Portraits from Drawings on stone, after unedited originals, by Miss H. S. Turner: 20 copies printed and the drawings effaced—not published.” This volume was issued about 1845. She and her sister Mary Ann Turner, also made the drawings for the “Outlines in lithography, from a small collection of pictures—for private circulation—1840, Great Yarmouth.” The volume contains 51 plates, of pictures then in Mr. Dawson Turner’s possession’ (Turner Family, p. 76).

H. Turner and F. Johnson, The Turner Family of Mulbarton and Great Yarmouth (new ed., 1907), pp. 76-7
Marriage register, St Nicholas's, Great Yarmouth