See also

Family of Francis Bilney Smith and Mary Fairs

  • Husband:

  • Francis Bilney Smith ( -1845)

  • Wife:

  • Mary Fairs (1817?-1882)

  • Children:

  • Francis Bilney Smith (1846?- )

  • Marriage:

  • May 1845 (app)

  • Bosmere "Registration District", Suffolk, England1

Husband: Francis Bilney Smith

  • Name:

  • Francis Bilney Smith1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Death:

  • Q4 1845

  • Poplar "Registration District", Middlesex, England2

  • Probate:

  • 1846

  • Probate Registry, Chiswick, Middlesex, England3

  •  

  • administered by Mary Smith of Ipswich

Wife: Mary Fairs

  • Name:

  • Mary Fairs4

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • William Fairs (1785?-1863)

  • Mother:

  • Mary Wells (1785-1856)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • a laundress after being widowed then a clear starcher5,6,7

  • Birth:

  • 1817 (app)

  • Gosbeck, Suffolk, England4,5,6,7,8,9

  • Baptism:

  • 6 Apr 1817 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Ipswich Road, Gosbeck, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • daughter of William Fairs (labourer) and Mary late Wells of Gosbeck

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 23-24)

  • Shrubland Hall, Barham, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • aged 20 as Mary Faiers, a female servant living with five other servents. Born in Suffolk

  • Witness:

  • 1846 (age 28-29)

  • Probate

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 33-34)

  • 9 Priory Street, St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • wife aged 33 married, living with her husband and a son. Born in Gosbeck Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 43-44)

  • 11 John Street, St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • head of the household aged 44 widowed, a laundress living with a daughter, a nephew and a lodger. Born in Gosbeck Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 53-54)

  • 11 John Street, St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • head of the household aged 54 widowed, a laundress living with a daughter and three lodgers. Born in Gosbeck Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 63-64)

  • 21 Edgar Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • head of the household aged 63 widowed, a clear starcher living with three boarders. Born in Gosbeck Suffolk

  • Death:

  • 21 Aug 1882 (age 65)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England10,11,12

  • Burial:

  • 26 Aug 1882

  • Ipswich Old Cemetery, Belvedere Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England11,12

  •  

  • widow aged 65 of Edgar Street St. Nicholas Ipswich

Child 1: Francis Bilney Smith

  • Name:

  • Francis Bilney Smith13

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • May 1846 (app)

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England9,13

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 4)

  • 9 Priory Street, St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England14

  •  

  • son-in-law aged 5, living with his mother and step-father. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Bosmere 1845 quarter:2 volume:12 page:463.

2.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Poplar 1845 quarter:4 volume:2 page:254.

3.

FindMyPast Index to Death Duty Registers 1796-1903, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). TNA ref:IR27/128 register entry volume:2 folio:335.

4.

Suffolk Family History Society - Bosmere and Claydon Baptisms 1813-1900, (2008 SFK-BPI-11 own copy).

5.

England and Wales Census 1861, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG09 piece:1162 folio:135 page:4.

6.

England and Wales Census 1871, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG10 piece:1751 folio:87 page:12.

7.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:1871 folio:60 page:6.

8.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1018 book:4 folio:7 page:6.

9.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1799 folio:203 page:16.

10.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1882 quarter:3 volume:4a page:378.

11.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy).

12.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy).

13.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1846 quarter:2 volume:12 page:390.

14.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1799 folio:203 page:16.