Albert SMITH (b 1868 aprox) married Rhoda Minnie GOODE 1888 (General)

by Lawrencef , Trentham, Australia, Monday, September 06, 2010, 08:45 (5197 days ago) @ slowhands

Hi

I thought that everything to do with Alberts parents was gone but then I remembered that in my Great Grandmaothers funeral notice which she wrote (she had slow acting overian cancer) she lists her parents as:

James Smith, Elizabeth Hughes (who were in fact her grandparents). It also places her birth at Ruffell (actually Ruffet) Little Dean Glos Eng.

What shook me is that I've been contacted by a very nice person in NZ who thought that we might be related. As it turns out one of us, both of us or neither of are wrong but our research doesn't marry.

Where it does take me is to the birh of Albert whom I (in spite of now posessing 3 birth certificates for him which are all wrong) have never reconciled into the family of James and Elizabeth properly;

The 1871 and 1881 census's I was working from may refer to another family:

1871 census

James Smith 39
Elizabeth Smith 44
Thomas Smith 17
James Smith 15
Alice Smith 13
John Smith 11
Sarah Ann Smith 9
Elizabeth Smith 7
Enock Smith 5
Abbert Smith 3 (I'd say this is Albert with a trasncription error)

1881 census

Name: Albert Smith
Age: 13
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868
Relation: Son
Father's Name: James
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Male
Where born: Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England
Civil parish: Mitcheldean
County/Island: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Street Address: Townend Street
Education:
Employment status:

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Occupation: ((Iron Miner)) Scholar

Registration district: Westbury On Severn
Sub-registration district: Newnham
ED, institution, or vessel: 30
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
James Smith 49
Elizabeth Smith 53
Albert Smith 13
Sydney Smith 9

She seems to have had Sydney and Albert quite late but there is a consistent spacing in the ages.

The research sent to me is following James and Elizabeth Smith (nee Mills, born in Stroud. I suspect that perhaps I have a cross over into their lives or my friend in NZ has a cross over into the lives of my Smiths (its at this point I despair the common names). "This particular James Smith was an iron miner born in Mitcheldean in 1831, son of Matthew Smith, born in High Wycombe in 1806".

Claire has also written this which really threw me as this is the cross over of our research:

"My line starts with Matthew (b.1805 in Buckinghamshire, son of Richard Smith, papermaker) and Eliza (nee Barnard) Smith - lived at Abenhall (v. close to Mitcheldean) Son James Smith b. 1831 Mitcheldean (10 siblings) Married Elizabeth Mills from Stroud in 1828.

Children:
Thomas, James, Alice, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Enoch, Albert (b. 1866), Sydney (all appear in census records)
The family lived in Townsend St Mitcheldean.
The men were mostly iron miners.

I have a record from the church register from Mitcheldean (on FOD website) that has Albert marrying Rhoda Minnie Goode on July 18 1888, father of groom James Smith miner, and an Elizabeth Smith as witness."

What it means is that we are in trouble with our research and your keen mind and insight would be very welcome (gripped by despair as I am of the thought that all these years work are wrong :-).

Writing it out has helped a little though as the clincher is that the funeral notice of my great Grandmother lists James and Elizabeth. I'd better scan that and send it to claire to see what she makes of it.

Kind regards

Lawrence