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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: hostile17 on Sunday 23 March 25 23:17 GMT (UK)
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Hello everyone,
I am hoping someone here can help me discover who the parents of Moses Smith b. 1816 Harby, Lincolnshire are. His father is listed as Thomas Smith but I can't pin down which Thomas he may be. Moses was the husband of Eldrei Gray/Mobbs, they married July - Sept 1846 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire volume 14 page 715.
Thanks in advance,
Sue
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Is this the right 1871 entry?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB8D-TMY?lang=en
If so - birthyear 1812 & children born before 1846 so was it a second marriage for Moses?
Eldri died 1865 aged 42 so was only 23yrs old in 1846
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1841 census Framland
Moses Smith 20, also with siblings, and possibly his mother Sylvia age 65, net maker.
Baptism - Moses Smith
19 May 1816
Harby,Leicester,England
Father Thomas Smith
Mother Sylvia
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Possible death .....
SMITH, SILBEN age 72
GRO Reference: 1848 D Quarter in GRANTHAM UNION Volume 14 Page 272
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There is a tree on FamilySearch which might be worth looking at.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/pedigree/landscape/M6KT-NPT
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1861 shows birthplace as Harby Leicestershire - 1817. Brother Thomas b 1811 Rutland
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWMC-BSG?lang=en
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Brother Thomas b 1811 Rutland
Thomas Smith (the brother)
Baptism 18 Dec. 1814 , Teigh, Rutland, England
Son of Thomas and Sarah Smith – traveller
Sarah possibly an earlier / different wife
Did he have several "wives"?
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The wife named Sarah?
Death / burial
Ab Kettleby, Leicestershire, England
21 Nov 1834
Sarah Smith, a Gypsy, age 34
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Thank you, both of you found the right Moses, with his mothers name as Silvia, now the hunt begins for a Thomas/Sylvia marriage and possibly an earlier marriage to a Sarah. Maybe one of the documents was mistranscribed, Silvia and Sarah could be the same person. There are many Sarah Smith deaths, picking the right one may be tricky.
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If you read my posts above you will see that there were at least 2 "wives" but possibly they were never married.
Sarah died 1834
Sylvia died 1848
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Thomas Smith
Baptism - 4 May 1791
North Kilworth, Leicester, England
Father Absolam Smith
Mother Sarah Smith
A tree on Ancestry has a burial for this Thomas Smith on 4 June 1836
Ab Kettleby, Leicestershire,
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That's great, so Thomas is the son of Absolom, he will be easier to trace. Now for Silvia, I can't see a marriage for Thomas Smith and Silvia