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Samuel Smedley
(Bef 1775-)
Elizabeth Kiddey
(Abt 1768-After 1841)
John Smedley
(Cal 1795/1795-1870)
Hannah Stevenson
(Cal 1797-After 1871)
Abraham Smedley
(1833-Between 1870/1880)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Mary Ann Taft Barker

Abraham Smedley

  • Christened: 19 Feb 1833, Sandiacre 2
  • Marriage: Mary Ann Taft Barker in Jun 1855 in Birmingham (reg) 1
  • Died: Between 1870 and 1880
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  Chronology:

He worked as a Cotton Lace Manufacturer in 1861 and resided at Town Street, Sandiacre. 3 (nex door is Henry J Barker, Mary's brother?; two doors away are George and Sarah Doar; the James and Mary Doar then William and Sarah Doar)

He resided in 1871 in Not Known. 4 5 (not with his family in Sandiacre - maybe in USA in advance of the family. In 1901 Mary wrote that they had left 30 years before)


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Abraham married Mary Ann Taft Barker in Jun 1855 in Birmingham (reg).1 (Mary Ann Taft Barker was born on 29 Jan 1833 in Sandiacre, Derbys 3 6 and died after 1910 in USA 7.)


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1 FreeBMD Online Index of BMD, England & Wales, www.freebmd.org.uk, Marriages Jun 1855
BARKER Mary Ann Taft Birmingham 6d 223
SMEDLEY Abraham Birmingham 6d 223.

2 Rootsweb.com - Family Tree, Abraham SMEDLEY b: 19 FEB 1833 in Sandiacre,Derby,England
. This is trhe only reference to Abraham but the other family members from the source agreed.

3 Ancestry.com Online Census and BMD, www.ancestry.com, 1861C.

4 Ancestry.com Online Census and BMD, www.ancestry.com, 1871C.

5 Georgina Lyons, 1901 letters.

6 Georgina Lyons, Letter AD 15/1/1901 "your 64th birthday on the 29th inst.".

7 Georgina Lyons, Letters 1901 between Abraham Smedley and his aunt Mary Smedley.