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« on: Friday 21 October 11 13:06 BST (UK) »
Hi Ceeoh,
I don't have any photo's (that I know of or recognise) of Joseph & Margaret (Lynn) Smith, I have plenty of Mary Ann their daughter (my great grandmother born 1881) and I have a photo of all Mary Ann's children, so you might be able to see any resemblance there.
I do have an odd photo, its a picture of my Mary Ann with a lot of other woman and a man with a beard smoking a pipe, looks like a trip or boat trip that had come back, but I wonder if any of that crowd were related in some way, unfortunately my remaining living family don't recognise anyone else on there - could be another Smith - who knows!
My aunty has a very vague memory of visiting her great grandmother (Margaret Lynn/Smith) up "Middlesbrough way", she thinks it was Middlesbrough but I'm more inclined to say Guisborough. She said she remembered this old lady who scared her a little, and she smoked a pipe !! I'm now in two minds if it was Margaret or not, as my aunty was born in 1929, how she could remember her great grandmother at that age I don't know - as I had Margaret Smith (Lynn) dieing in 1930, could be wrong as there's that many Smiths - I really need a death cert for Margaret + Joseph to prove.
If you can PM me your email address (don't know how to do that yet!) I'll send you what I have over, might be interesting for you, might even see some Smith resemblances!
Are you based around the Yorkshire area at all, could maybe even meet or compare notes, I live in West Yorkshire but can travel.
Paul.