Jersey Look up request please

[baltibluebird]

Hi can someone please look up:

Mary Ann Smith born in Jersey 1856 - her father was Edward Smith, licensed victualler (on Mary Ann's 2nd marriage certificate in 1890 deceased). She was my 2nd great grandmother.

She appears on the England censuses in 1881 under her 1st married name of Faulkner and 1901 under her 2nd married name, Sayers.  Both censuses give Jersey as her birthplace, although the 1901 census birth place completed by the enumerater was transcribed wrongly, I believe,  as his hand slipped down a line as her son William Victor was definitely born in Gosport.

Sorry but this is all the information I have and I dont hold out much hope really.

Also, if she was English but born in Jersey, what was happening around 1856 history wise please on Jersey?

Thank you kindly in anticipation ...

[rosie99]

Hi

Do you think this is her in 1861 living at 137, Charter Street, Manchester

Edward SMITH Head age 47  Umbrella Maker bn  Brighton 
Mary Ann Wife age 27  bn Charlton  Chatham  Kent 
Mary Ann Dtr age 5  Scholar bn  Jersey   
Clara Dtr 8Mths bn  Birmingham

RG09 Piece 2961 F63 P15 

Rosie     

[baltibluebird]

Hi Rosie

I don't really know if it is her or not; I had come across this entry a couple of days ago but her father is an umberella maker which is different from a licensed victualler, but not entirely impossible, I think.

Thanks for looking

[rosie99]

Hi

Do you have her first marriage certificate, if so whats Edwards occupation then?

Rosie

[baltibluebird]

No sorry I don't have her first marriage certificate - will have to get it but Ive spent quite a bit recently so will have to wait for a while.

Thanks anyway.

[Hill]

Hi

If you send me a private email with your email address in, I can send you extracts from the Chronology of Jersey and Jersey Through the Centuries which details the major activities that happened each month.

If you can get a copy of Ballentyne's History of Jersey by Joan Stevens it has a specific chapter on that period which would go into more details. Your library may be able to get a copy.

Stewart

PS Was Mary Ann Smith possibly Mary Ann Harris Smith?

[baltibluebird]

Hi Stewart

I have sent you a personal message and hope you are able to help me further.

Kind regards

[baltibluebird]

Hi again

I am still looking for the birth of Mary Ann Smith born abt 1855 Jersey.

I have her marriage cert with  William Faulkner in 1874, Aldershot and her father is shown as Edward Smith, Lime worker.  Unfortunately, there is no address for her but her age is 19 and she was a spinster.

I have her in Maidstone, Kent with her family in the 1881 census and also the 1891 census with her new husband and family Walter Sayer, Cliffe, Kent (William Faulkner died in 1889) and both censuses give Jersey as her place of birth.

Would really appreciate some help in tracking her birth down please.

Thanks in anticipation ...

[sabrina]

If you look at the Pilot site on the LDS, and put in Mary Smith, Jersey, Channel Isles, there is a Mary A Smith on the 1861 census aged 5 years in St. Helier, jersey. Reg. Dist. Anglesey - Sub Dist. Holyhead - institution 27 - Household 61.  As i have not got acess to look further, you would have to go to ancestry to have a look at the 1861 census for the Channel Isles, and see woh she is living with.

sabrina