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Title: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: LMChapman on Tuesday 05 November 24 14:38 GMT (UK)
I think I know but just throwing this up to see what other people think Isabella's maiden name is...
Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 November 24 14:51 GMT (UK)
?? Stobin
Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: manukarik on Tuesday 05 November 24 14:58 GMT (UK)
Stobie

Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: LMChapman on Tuesday 05 November 24 15:12 GMT (UK)
This is her signature on the register. I do believe it to be Stobie. FindMyPast had it transcribed as 'Hobin'.
Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: emeltom on Tuesday 05 November 24 18:53 GMT (UK)
Looks like Stobie to me.
Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 05 November 24 19:59 GMT (UK)
The above marriage was in Gillingham, St Mary, Magdalene. There are 3 recorded baptisms in the same church from 1811-14 with parents James and Isabella.

Smith
Francis Robert
1811
Kent Baptisms
Gillingham, St Mary Magdalene, Kent, England

1841

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQKT-YLH

James and Isabella Still at same address on 1851/61 census.

Name   Rev Francis Robert Smith
Birth Date   16 Feb 1811
Birth Place   Gillingham, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England
Death Date   10 Jun 1873
Death Place   Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky, United States of America
Cemetery   St. Nicholas's Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place   Rochester, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England

Father   
James Smith
Mother   
Isabella Smith

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Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 05 November 24 21:04 GMT (UK)

SMITH, ISABELLA       aged 74 
GRO Reference: 1861  S Quarter in MEDWAY  Volume 02A  Page 207

SMITH, JAMES       aged 85 
GRO Reference: 1861  S Quarter in MEDWAY  Volume 02A  Page 208

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Title: Re: Woman's Maiden Surname
Post by: bbart on Wednesday 06 November 24 00:28 GMT (UK)
James and Isabella died on the very same day.... ???

From the Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette
07 September 1861

Rochester
Sept 1, James Smith, Esq., for 25 years a magistrate of the county of Kent, in his 86th years; also, on the same day, Isabella, his wife, in her 75th year.