Looking for Info on Grandmother

[IndisVanyar]

The web site you need is:

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

and the reference will be:

Lena Margaret Smith
Birth Dec quarter 1897 - Hastings 2b 23

Nell

[TrinaMac]

Thank you Nell, Jean & Genie. I shared this new found information with my Mom who will be turning 80 soon, after the fire in 1941 and during WW2 contact with relatives in England was minimal. My Mom and her sisters had very little info and their father didn't want to talk about the tragic event or of his beloved Lena. This is more info than they have ever known.
The info you have so kindly provided has raised a few more question. Is there a way to find out the maiden name of Frances M Smith b 1867 and is Lee Kent a town, what happened to the brothers and sisters of Lena Smith. It is thought that one of the brothers immigrated to Canada.
I hope I am not asking for too much.

[Treelover]

Hi Trina

Charles Ernest Smith married Frances Mary Jarman

1891 4th quarter Hastings  Vol 2b Pg 62


Joan 

PS

Lee fell within the Hundred of Blackheath. Its 19th century Registration District & Poor Law Union was Lewisham.
Probate Jurisdiction was Rochester to 1845, London 1846-57.

[Treelover]

Here they are Trina

 1871 census   Lewisham Village, Lewisham, Kent  24 Horton Street
RG10; Piece: 766; Folio: 59; Page: 33;


Lot Jarman  Head Mar  38 Gardener Private born Churchill, Somerset,
Mary A   wife 40 born Burmington??, Somerset
Percy   W  son 9  scholar   born Greenwich, Kent
Alfred son 8 Born Greenwich, Kent
Frances M  dau 4 born Greenwich, Kent
Selina  dau 4months born Lewisham, Kent.


Joan

[TrinaMac]

Thank you againso much for the info.

Do you have any idea why Sydney G Smith would have been born at St Leonards on Sea  in 1900 and the others siblings born in Hastings beforeand after him and still living in Hastings in 1911. Is St Leonards on the Sea close in miles to Hastings.

 Not sure what to do next,  should start a new post to look for each sister/brother of Lena Margaret Smith?

[geniecolgan]

Hi Trina,

St. Leonards, where Sidney was born, is only about a mile west of Hastings. So very close.

[Treelover]

Hello again Trina,

Well you could register with GR  and put on the information you have.  There is someone on there called Lena Marie who has in her tree a Norah Smith born 1896 Hastings and Lena Smith born 1903 Hastings 

Joan

[TrinaMac]

I have come a long way with my family tree, with thanks to the kind people who are forever helping me on Rootschat.
 My ggrandfather Charles Ernest and Wife Francis Mary are on the Hastings 1911 census with their own family, I have since found my GGGrandfather Charles Smith 1841 and his wife Annie Manns 1845 on the 1901 Census in Hastings with two of their five children still at home.  Annie C 32 and Sydney H 24. I was wondering if that is odd that Annie C would still be at home at 32 and if she was still there in 1911.
Thanks again
Trina