Hi,
I have just joined after reading this thread and am wondering if anyone can help please. I believe that Henry Smith had another younger brother call Albert/Alfred Smith b. 1847 in potentially Barrowby, Eagle, Welby or Harrowby Lincs. This would make him the youngest child of Bathwell and Charlotte Smith.
At his first marriage (as Albert) to Mary Ann Betsy Donson in Navenby on 24/6/1866 his father is listed as Barthold Smith and at his second marriage to Anne Maria Tindall (just down the road in Boothby Graffoe) on 18/10/1875 his father is listed as Bathwell Smith.
We know from the 1861 census that Bartholomew Smith (aka Bathwell etc) was in Bassingham and although Alfred/Albert is not listed as one of his children, there is an Alfred Smith listed as a Carter at the Chequers Pub where the publican is a Patchett (a name which is also in this string) in Eagle (Bassingham is between Eagle and Navenby). There were two Millicent's living at the pub (wife and daughter of Patchett) and Albert Smith names one of his daughters Millicent so this could be him.
Albert appears to have given up the Romany lifestyle after his first marriage when he settled in Navenby as a farm labourer (where Barthwell Smith was buried on 25 Nov 1861). He is on the 1871 census there as Alfred. My great grandfather Charles Abram Smith was born in Boothby Graffoe in 1880. Then Anne Marie and Albert Smith appear on the 1881 census where they settled in Pointon where he appears again in the 1891, 1901 and 1911 census' before his death in 1933 in Bourne which covers Pointon. Pointon is one village away from Billingborough which also appears in this thread as a place visited by the Smith/Gray/Elliot families.
Also does anyone know anymore about the parents of Bathwell and/or Charlotte?
Thanks!
This information from Crown Copyright, from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk