sentences:  Dyer had an elder sister, Sarah Ann who died in 1841, aged 6 and a younger sister also named Sarah Ann who died in 1845, aged a few months.An elder cousin had an illegitimate daughter at the time who was later accepted as the daughter of the grandparents, Dyer's aunt and uncle William and Martha Hobley.After her mother's death Amelia lived with an aunt in Bristol for a while, before serving an apprenticeship with a corset maker.