Smith Family - help needed (topics merged)

[heywood]

This is very strange as there is only one birth of a Smith with mother's name Ashton in the correct time period:

Annie Smith
mother's maiden name Ashton
June quarter 1924
Blackburn Lancashire
8E 590

This is really too late if your mother was born in January as the birth should have been registered within 6 weeks.

Free BMD has a marriage for William Smith and Margaret Ashton in Blackburn 1923

Heywood

[ak1326]

no i dnt av a birth certificate for my mum wanted to get one but as u can see aving a lot of probs tracking anything down for the rite person i found a birth for her in blackburn but the registering of the birth didnt add up rite as she was born in january that i do no and i av no idea where her parents came from as died b4 i was born only thing i no that my mum lasted lived in new whittington chesterfield b4 she married my dad

[MargP]

Hi ak and welcome to Roots

How certain can you be about her birth date, if you don't have certificate, my mother -in- law lost a year's pension, because she had her birth year wrong, the birth that groom as found looks very promising, I have seen late registration before, so would not discount this record

Margp

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Did she have any brothers or sisters that might help us narrow the search down - if so can you only post information about those who have died

[MargP]

Hi

I have found a ships passenger list with a, Amy May Smith b 12 Jan 1923, returning from Singapore, 1 Dec 1955, she is with a son, born 2 March 1947, I will not name him as he may still be living, address given

Familoes Hostal 29 Burniston Bks Scarborough

Margp

[ballydw]

This could be your family.
Amy Ashton b. Oct 1892 Chesterfield Derbyshire. D. Jan 1958
Husband William Robert Smith b. 1889 Chesterfield Derby. Died July 1951 Chesterfield.

William R Smiths parents were Robert Smith & Mary Handbury. They married on 29th June 1884 in Brampton Derbyshire.
1891 Census as follows:
Newbold & Dunston Derbyshire.
Robert Smith age 39 HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD  born Lincoln Grimsby.  Wife Mary Smith age 41. Sarah A Hanbury 18, stepdaughter, Eleanor M Hanbury 14 Stepdaughter, Lydia Smith a 6 daughter, WILLIAM R SMITH age 4 Son, Thomas Smith Brother

[groom]

Amy Ashton b. Oct 1892 Chesterfield Derbyshire. D. Jan 1958
Husband William Robert Smith b. 1889 Chesterfield Derby. Died July 1951 Chesterfield.

That looks good - where is that from?  It still doesn't explain why we can't find a marriage for those two or a birth for Anne Smith.

[ballydw]

Birth & Death from a family tree that doesnt give Marriage or any info on Amy Ashton only on the smith line. Gave William R Smiths parents names so found the census from that and also Williams parents marriage.
If AK the poster can confirm that Annie her mother was married to Willis,  then it is the correct family.

Amy Ashton b. Oct 1892 Chesterfield Derbyshire. D. Jan 1958
Husband William Robert Smith b. 1889 Chesterfield Derby. Died July 1951 Chesterfield.

That looks good - where is that from?  It still doesn't explain why we can't find a marriage for those two or a birth for Anne Smith.

[MargP]

Hi

I think that ak may have some wires crossed somewhere, this looks like the death in for Ann SMITH

Amy May SMITH
DOB 12 Jan 1923
Oct Qtr 1995
Reg Mansfield Derbyshire
Reg No B13D
Dist 6871B
Entry No 269

Maybe she was known as Ann but registered as Amy May

Margp