Sarah's first marriage was to a mariner, Charles Edwards, on 29 April 1865 in Sydney. Her father was a miller and former convict. Sarah Jane Sutcliffe was born on 20 December 1845 in Sussex Street, Sydney, the daughter of Emanuel Sutcliffe and Ellen ( née Murphy). John was the fourth of eleven children born between 18. John Sidney Makin was born on 14 February 1845 at Dapto, near Wollongong, the son of an assigned convict, William Makin, and his wife Ellen ( née Bolton). After eighteen-and-a-half years she was released in April 1911 when her daughters petitioned for her early release. Sarah Makin served her sentence at Bathurst and Sydney. After an unsuccessful appeal, which was confirmed by the Privy Council in Britain, John Makin was hanged on 15 August 1893. The couple were tried and found guilty in March 1893 and both were sentenced to death, though Sarah Makin's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The remains of fifteen infants were found by police buried in the yards of houses where the Makins had resided.
The couple answered a series of advertisements from unmarried mothers seeking adoption of their babies, taking on the care of the infants on payment of a "premium". John Sidney Makin (14 February 1845 – 15 August 1893) and Sarah Jane Makin (20 December 1845 – 13 September 1918) were Australian ' baby farmers' who were convicted in New South Wales for the murder of infant Horace Murray. William Samuel and Ellen Selena Bolton Makin (John)Įmanuel and Ellen Murphy Sutcliffe (Sarah) John and Sarah Makin, prisoner photographs (December 1892)ĭarlinghurst Gaol, New South Wales, Australia
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