Smith of Nuneaton

[Al in Vane]

I appreciate your difficulty, I came across quite a few others by the same name but only sent those nearest to your dates. I will check further Electoral lists and look at Stockingford burials although I believe they only did them to about 1915

[Al in Vane]

The John Smith in the 1902 List of Electors is not your ancestor.
I have looked at the 1901 entry and Gorse Barn Cottage is still extant, or was last time I walked across that way. Nowdays it is called Gorse Cottage Farm and it is situated about a mile from Attleborough village and is at White Stone next to Nuneaton Golf Course. You will find it on the 1890 map on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/index_external.jsp?easting=443500&northing=288500
In 1891 census it was occupied by others from Northamptonshire, i wonder if there as a link. Looking at the children, Edith was born at Hellidon? My ancestors came from there. Was she married in Nuneaton?
I will keep looking, the 1911 census will probably answer a lot of your problems.

[mintola1964]

John and ellen were married in Brackley, Oxfordshire in 1875, one of their sons Edden (my husband's grandad) was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1891, Wimpstone Whitchurch. I can't look up the censuses but just did a search for his sister, Edith Elizabeth Smith born 1888 in Eydon Northants and see one for 1901 down towards the bottom of the page, says she was born Northants now living in Warks, I thought I had it somewhere but can't find it at the moment! Thanks for your help

[Al in Vane]

So where was 'Edden' in 1901.
The 1901 shows the family as
John Smith-45-Farm labourer-b Woodford, Northants
Ellen Smith-49-b Eydon, Northants
George Smith-16-Ag Lab-b Eydon
William-14-Ag Lab-b Eydon
Edith-13-b Hellidon, Northants
John-20-Ag Lab-b Eydon

[mintola1964]

have no idea at all!! This was the problem we had, he is nowhere on the censuses!! We only know of him because of ordering his dad's birth Certificate, Edden Smith and Ethel North were his parents, then we ordered Edden's birth certificate and it showed us that John Smith and Ellen Edden were hisparents!!

[Al in Vane]

A mystery then, it is unusual as when a surname is used in families it usually follows another but obviously if you only have the one Christian name on his birth certificate then we must discount that theory. I have often found that when a young lad is missing off a census they are usually found somewhere nearby working and living with someone else, a sort of apprenticeship.
Good look with your further research, Al

[Al in Vane]

Have you seen the following---------
http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/whitchur.html

[Al in Vane]

And this one may be of use and interest to you -

http://www.eydon.org.uk/ehrg/newsletters/Newsletter2.html

[pcjr]

Hello Al in Vane,

Many thanks for the web sites. 

Would you be able to take a photo of the Gorse Cottage for me at all, please.

Also please can you tell me where Aston in Warwickshire is?
As I have a Edith elizabeth Smith married at Aston in 1905,

Thank you

pcjr