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Sarah Ann Dale (18 November 1830-19 May 1913) was an English woman who lived in Cheshire for much of her life. Dale was the youngest surviving child of Thomas Dale and Hannah Goodier-Dale, the former of which owned and managed a farm in Chorley (now modern-day Wilmslow). Sarah Ann Dale was a Quaker and is buried in the Lindow Quaker burial ground, separate from many of her family in the graveyard of Saint Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, and the Quaker's burial ground in Wilmslow.

Dale never married and was listed on several census reports as a "spinster". She lived for a time in Stockport with her older sister, Catherine Dale-Neal, who had married a local butcher-turned ship merchant named John Arthur Neal towards the end of Catherine's life. Catherine died 30 September 1875, aged 46, and Sarah continued to live with her brother-in-law and his two surviving children, Thomas Dale-Neal and Mary Dale-Neal. Following the death of John Arthur Neal, Thomas and Mary continued to adopt only the Dale name and relocated to modern-day Wilmslow, then known as Bollin Fee, nearby to the family seat in Chorley. Dale lived in Albert Park 'by [her] own means' and kept several servants.

Mary Dale married Tulio Martinez De La Cuadra in 1889 but continued to live with her aunt, and Thomas Dale became head of the household as a flour merchant in the nearby trade city Manchester. After Martinez's attempt to kidnap and hold for ransom his daughter Catherine Juanita De La Cuadra and his following suicide, Mary and her daughter continued to live with Sarah until her death.

Sarah Ann Dale died in 1913 from unknown causes.

No known photographs or artwork of Dale exists, potentially due to her status as a Quaker. It is not uncommon for Victorian Quakers to have little information regarding their appearance as it may be regarded as a luxury or indulgence.

Sarah Ann Dale (18 November 1830 - 19 May 1913) was an English woman who lived in Cheshire for much of her life.. Dale was the youngest surviving child of Thomas Dale and Hannah Goodier-Dale, the former of which owned and managed a farm in Morley (now modern-day Wilmslow). Dale was a Quaker and is buried in the Lindow Quaker burial ground, separate from many members of her family in the graveyard of Saint Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, and the Quaker's burial ground in Wilmslow.

Dale never married and is listed on several census reports as a spinster or annuitant. She lived for a time in Stockport with her older sister, Catherine Dale-Neal, who had married local butcher-turned ship tradesman John Arthur Neal. Catherine died 30 September 1875, aged 46, and Sarah continued to live with her brother-in-law and Catherine's two surviving children, Thomas Dale-Neal and Mary Dale-Neal. Following the death of John Arthur Neal during the 1880s, Thomas and Mary began to carry only the Dale name and relocated to modern-day Wilmslow, then the parish of Bollin Fee, nearby to the Dale family's farm in the neighbouring Morley. Dale lived on the small estate Albert Park 'by [her] own means' in a semi-detached Grade-II listed 1870s townhouse and kept several servants. Thomas Dale jr. became a flour merchant in the trade city Manchester and Mary Dale-Neal and her daughter Catherine Juanita De La Cuadra continued to live with Sarah until her death.

Dale's ability to buy, own, and manage a house with no financial support, in particular one of such calibre and with several domestic servants, while retaining her status as an unmarried woman with no title of aristocracy, no position in the world of commerce, little involvement in popular Victorian high society, and sustaining a belief in Quakerism demonstrate that Dale's position in society was very peculiar to the social norms of the Victorian period, in which women would rarely own their own property in particular when unmarried or without titles.

Sarah Ann Dale died in 1913 from unknown causes. No known photographs or artwork of Dale exists, potentially due to her status as a Quaker. It is not uncommon for Victorian Quakers to have little information regarding their appearance as it may be regarded as a luxury or indulgence