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Title: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: vandab on Friday 09 August 19 14:59 BST (UK)
Hi,
I have a Henry Smith married to Harriet Adkins in 1845 in Coventry, Warwickshire.
I know a bit about her and her family but cannot find any info on Henry Smith.
Harriet died in Redditch Worcestershire in 1860.
She was also married to a Benjamin Adkins who was from Inkberrow in Worcestershire which is why I have put this request in Worcestershire.
Can anyone help me find Henry Smith please because I do not have a clue
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 09 August 19 15:14 BST (UK)
Do you have the marriage certificate as that should name his father.  Online images are 'damaged' and do not show that part of the certificate
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 09 August 19 15:19 BST (UK)
Free reg has
Groom's father Thomas Smith occ Labourer  ;D
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 09 August 19 15:23 BST (UK)
There is a widowed Henry Smith in Inkberrow in 1861
RG09/2233 f94 p2

You don't mention whether Henry Smith and Harriet had any children
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: Priscilla on Friday 09 August 19 15:31 BST (UK)
FreeBMD have following listing:

Marriage Registration
Third Quarter 1845
SMITH Henry and ADKINS Harriet - Coventry - Vol 16 - Page 404

Postem added to this listing dated 12.1.2009
Date of marriage 17.8.1845 - St Michael
SMITH Henry, fa, wid, Labourer, Warwick Lane, Thomas SMITH, Labourer.
ADKINS Harriet, fa, spin, Warwick Lane, John ADKINS, Labourer.
Witnesses: James ADKINS, Sarah ADKINS
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: vandab on Friday 09 August 19 15:46 BST (UK)
Hi everyone,
I have found at last some info that you have all found for me, As soon as I asked for help, it all started to fall into place.
Interesting to see that Harriet Adkins has a "S" by her name so I presume that is S for spinster, she had 3 children that I have found before she married Henry Smith, the naughty girl.
I am trying to find a link between the Smith family and the Phillips family.
I am connected by DNA to family, but with one of them, I am connected to both her parents so we are trying to find the link.
Henry and Harriet had 6 children that I have found
Thank you for your help
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: Milliepede on Friday 09 August 19 15:54 BST (UK)
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She was also married to a Benjamin Adkins who was from Inkberrow in Worcestershire which is why I have put this request in Worcestershire.

When did she marry him - what was her birth surname because she gives a father with the name Adkins when marrying Henry Smith.

Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: vandab on Friday 09 August 19 16:09 BST (UK)
I seem to have that wrong, I thought Adkins was her married name but as I have found other info today, I realise that she must have had children before when she was a spinster
Title: Re: Help please for my brickwall
Post by: Milliepede on Friday 09 August 19 21:43 BST (UK)
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Henry and Harriet had 6 children that I have found

After 1845? 

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she had 3 children that I have found before she married Henry Smith,

Who were these 3 children?  Are their births registered as Adkins.