? Death - John Browne Smith- ?Litchurch

[Barrie Green]

In the 1871 Census John Browne Smith (b. Dartmouth 1915) is in Litchurch, an attorney, with his wife Ann N. Smith b. London and ? daughter Amelia b. Coventry. Never heard of her - were they fostering her as they are not her parents on her Birth Certificate.

In the 1881 Census Ann Smith is at Margate, a widow with family members, the Childs , Battens etc. She later is a Matron at the Gentleman's Club in London.

I have never been able  to find John Browne Smith's Death and as he is my 2x gr,grandfather I am anxious to complete this part of my family history. I have been searching for years, putting aside and then starting again. Has anyone any suggestions please? Did he die in Derbyshire etc. or maybe moved somewhere else?

I would be grateful for any suggestions.

Faith

[ShaunJ]

In his evidence in court in 1870 ( "The solicitor and the ballet girl") he said that he had separated from his wife - she had left him 12 years earlier. So possibly the Ann Smith aged 30 with whom he is living in the 1871 census is not his wife ? Might she be the mother of Amelia?

[KGarrad]

Previous topic:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=361312.0

[KGarrad]

From The London Gazette, Issue 21521, page 462:
Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, Saturday the 11th day of February 1854
John Browne Smith, late of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Attorney & Solicitor. - In the Gaol of Stafford.

There's also this in The Commercial Exchange?
Protests on Bills of Exchange, Lanarkshire
John Browne Smith, Writer, 65 West Regent Street, Glasgow
2 August 1878, £27 11s 4d
23 August 1878, £10 18s 9d
   Holders of both: Westminster & General Life Assurance Association, London


If this is the same John Browne Smith, then maybe he died in Scotland?

[ShaunJ]

In evidence in 1870 he said he three times been jailed for debt.

There is a Glasgow insolvency in 1879 which could be him:

 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/9017/page/732

(Column 1, penultimate item)

I believe "writer" is a Scottish term for solicitor

[janan]

Since the Ann Smith wife in 1871 is 20 years younger than John I would agree with Shaun that she isn't his wife Ann Norah but someone John lived with after separating from his wife

Jan

[KGarrad]

Apologies! I updated my last post - there is an address in Glasgow!

[ShaunJ]

John Browne Smith, law agent with chambers in West Regent Street, Glasgow was committed for trial in June 1879 on a charge of theft. He had been arrested at his residence in Coatbridge. 

[ShaunJ]

So possibly the Ann Smith aged 30 with whom he is living in the 1871 census is not his wife ? Might she be the mother of Amelia?

Might that Ann be his daughter? She's the right age. Baptised at All Hallows Lombard Street in 1841 - not very far from Bishopsgate.