Sarah Louise Mathew ( 1805? – 14 December 1890) was a New Zealand

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. She was born in

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, England to Ann Constant Strange and Richard Mathew (1765–1839). She had two sisters and two brothers, including George Felton Mathew, a friend of the poet

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculo ...

. Her exact birth date is unknown, but she was baptised in 1805. On 21 January 1832 she married her cousin,

Felton Mathew Felton Mathew (1801 – 26 November 1847) was New Zealand's first Surveyor General. Central Auckland was laid out by him. Felton Mathew Avenue was named after him, and is a difficult incline amongst the cycling community in Auckland. Early life ...

in Sydney, Australia. All their children were stillborn. Her husband was New Zealand's first

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