Surname: Briggs (née Rocheid) Forename(s): Sarah Constance Isabelle d. 1918. Nationality: German.
Poet. Born in Mannheim, Germany, c.1838. Née Rocheid. Married Major-General David
Briggs on 3 July 1860, living with him in Largo, Fife. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Briggs’ “The Lighthouse of the Minot’s Edge,” published on 15 April
1899, lists the author as Mrs Briggs, of Strathairly Cottage, Largo, Fife (NLS Dep
341/371). Biographical information: Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information
Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions
of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets, vol. 189, Dean and Son, Limited, 1902, p. 340; Ancestry. (AC, CC)