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Column 1: 51-MBY - 53-SYL

ID: 51-MBY

Town/s of Interest:

W.R.Yorks: Kildwick, Silsden, Sutton
E.Lancs - Nelson

Researcher: Mark Bentley

Location: Kent, England

Email: m b e n t l e y 9 9 [at] h o tmail.com

Smith Chat Forum Username: Benners

Online Office Pigeon-hole: 51-mby

Interests submitted: 2005 / update 2007-08

Summary of Interests/Message

My Smiths moved from the Silsden
area, Yorkshire West Riding into
Nelson, Lancashire.



I'm looking into William Smith
bC1841 Sutton, West Riding,
he married Betty Simpson
(b1844 Kildwick)

Their children, all born in Silsden...

Susannah b1866, Mary b1869,
Sarah A b1873, Isabella b1871
** Annie b1875,
Maggie b1877, Grace E b1879,
Tom b1882, & Fanny b1885.

** Annie SMITH m Eli Rothwell in 1897

I'd like to go further back & expand my
Smith line, and would love to find a living
relative on this side, as I've done pretty
well in getting them on the rest of my
tree.

Other researchers - Any data or
other info about the above family?
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St Andrew's Church at Kildwick is a

well-known landmark in the Aire Valley,

and dates back to around 950AD.Most

of the present building is 14th century.

The church is situated just off the

A629 between Skipton and Keighley.



St Andrew's Parish Church
© Copyright Betty Longbottom and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

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Column 2: 54-JNH


ID: 54-JNH
Town/s of Interest:

Lancashire – Preston,

Lostock Hall (in Walton-le-Dale).

Houghton (Hoghton)
Bacup/Haslingden area.
Blackburn, Blackpool.

W.R.Yorkshire - Hebden Bridge



Researcher: Joan Holgate

Location: France

Email: f o n t b l a n c h e joannie [at] yahoo.com

Smith Chat Forum Username: joanddav

Online Office Pigeon-hole:54-jnh

Interests submitted: 2005/Updates 2006, 2008

Summary of Interests/Message

I was born in Preston & my mother
was Alice SMITH, 1910 - 1988.
Alice married Gabriel Duncan Higginson
in 1931.



Alice Smith Wedding Photo

5th December 1931 Christ Church, Preston

Left to right:-
Ethel Smith, sister of the bride and witness
Gabriel Duncan Higginson,
Alice Smith (the bride, my mother)
Thomas William Smith, father of the bride
Noah Morris, witness

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Alice's father, Thomas William SMITH
(1875 - 1947) married Edith HOLT.

Edith was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Thomas William SMITH and Edith (nee

HOLT) had fourteen children, seven of

whom survived to adulthood :-
Hannah, Ernest, Edith, Ethel,
Elsie, Alice, & Thomas.

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Thomas William SMITH's father was
Joseph Bellas SMITH, 1837 - 1908.

Joseph Bellas was variously a
shopkeeper / coal merchant.
He married Hannah LEEMING

(born Preston)

Their eight children were:-
Mary, Jane, Joseph Leeming,
Elizabeth Ellen, Hannah,
Thomas William, Fanny & John Henry.

Their mother, Hannah, died in 1882,
when the youngest child was only two.

ID: 52-GSM

Town/s of Interest:

Lancashire - Bury, Ancoats-Manchester
& Barrow in Furness.
(& Cheshire - Macclesfield)

Researcher: Gillian Smith

Location: North Wales

Email: g i l l i a n d a v i e s [at] l i n e one.net

Smith Chat Forum Username: GillianS

Online Office Pigeon-hole:52-gsm

Interests submitted: 2005/updates 2007-08

Summary of Interests/Message

I am interested in finding out more
about the family of James Smith and
Mary Hodges who I think originally
came from around Bury Lancashire
and ended up in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Living in Macclesfield in 1841-1851.

James Smith born c1810
in Lancashire ??Bury area.
married Mary Hodges c1825
at Prestbury Parish, Cheshire.



Also, John Smith m Hannah Hodges,
sister of Mary, at Prestbury.
James and John were both master
painters.



Children of James and Mary:-
* Hannah, James, John, Caroline,
** Jonathan, & William



* Hannah, the eldest daughter
married someone named Howe.
The Howe family seemed to remain
around Pott Shrigley and Bollington
(Macclesfield area, Cheshire).
One became the estate agent for
the estate.



** Jonathan Smith, born 1840
(my great great Grandfather)
moved to Manchester around 1860.
His siblings seemed to stay around
Cheshire and did 'quite well'.



Jonathan m Catherine (Kate) Flynn
in Manchester, 1864.
They lived in Ancoats where Jonathan
died in 1881at the age of 41.

My great great Grandmother
Kate Smith nee Flynn, and the rest
of Jonathan's family stayed in
Manchester. Kate died in 1913.



Son of Jonathan Smith & Kate nee Flynn:
James, my great grandfather, married
Mary Ann Coleman, in Manchester,
and eventually came to Wales around
1910.



Son of James Smith
& Mary Ann nee Coleman:-
William, My Grandfather.
born in 1895 Collyhurst Manchester,
He moved to Wales and married
Elizabeth Tovey, 1915, Connahs Quay.
William fought in WW1 - he was in
the Welsh Fusilliers.



I know some of my grandfather's
family moved to Barrow in Furness.



My Father William Smith was born
in 1921 in Connahs Quay.

Any information would be very welcome
as I can't seem to track any of the
Macclesfield Smiths and there were
so many of them!



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Manchester Cathedral - St Mary, St Denys and St George
© Copyright Sue Adair and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

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ID: 53-SYL

Town/s of Interest:

WRY - Batley & Wormesly, Doncaster



Researcher: Sylvia Bell

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Email: s y l v i a b e l l 46 [at] yahoo.com.au

Smith Chat Forum Username:

Online Office Pigeon-hole: 53-syl

Interests submitted: 2005 / A-Z update 2008

Summary of Interests/Message

The Smith I'm researching is
my greatgrandfather, Francis Smith.
Born 1853, in Wormesly, Doncaster.
Married Margaret Jane Taylor (nee Fox).



Dau of Francis and Margaret Jane:-
Margaret Emma SMITH
born about 1878/79 Batley



Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?



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nb at Dec 08 - contacting Sylvia to
check spelling of Wormesly, and
should this be Womersley? (a Parish
town slightly north-west of Doncaster)
or Wormley Hill in Fishlake Parish?
(a few miles east of Doncaster)
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The Minster of St George, Doncaster

The Parish Church was granted Minster

status in 2004 by the Bishop of Sheffield.



St George's Church, Doncaster
© Copyright Robert Neilson and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

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Joseph Bellas SMITH's father was

Henry SMITH, who was baptised in

1801 at Preston.



Henry was a spinner and he married

Mary BELLAS in 1831 at Preston.



Their children were Thomas Henry and

Joseph Bellas, and at Joseph Bellas's

baptism they lived in Ribbleton Lane.


Mary died in 1847 & Henry then
married Elizabeth GILLETT in 1851

at Preston. They had a daughter,
Elizabeth Ann, born Preston, & then
a son who was born & died at sea in
1856 – the family were on their way to
Australia, where two more daughters
were born in the suburbs of what is
now Melbourne, Victoria.



I would love to know why they went to

Australia – perhaps it was for the Gold

Rush – perhaps it was all over by the

time they arrived?



By 1861 Henry & his family were back
in Preston, living with Henry’s brother John!



The baptism records for St John, Preston,
show that Henry was the son of

Ralph & Betty Smith & he had siblings

Sarah 1792; George 1794; Alice 1796;

Squire 1798; Peter 1803; Betsy 1805;

Isabella 1806; Ralph 1808; John 1810;

& William 1812.



I have managed to trace the families
of Squire & John, & would love to make
contact with anyone who recognises
them or the other siblings. One of
Squire’s sons, John, moved to the
Bacup / Haslingden area.



Ralph & Betty SMITH must have been
born around 1772 or earlier, but I have
no idea where.



It would be wonderful to discover

where Ralph & Betty married & where

they were from!



>>54-JNH List of Smith Ancestors>>



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Snippets from Watercolours of
Victorian Preston by Edward Beattie.



Preston Market Place in 1840

(though painted at a later date)



St Johns Parish Church, Preston

Watercolour by Edward Beattie, 1857

>>Victorian collection at the website of St.Wilfrids Catholic Church, Preston>>

Situated in the town centre where Fishergate meets Church Street, the present church was built in the 19th Century on the site of the old parish church of St Wilfrid.

In 2002 Preston was officially awarded City status, and St Johns Parish Church was given the title of Preston Minster.



The Minster of St John the Evangelist
© Copyright Alexander P Kapp and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

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