Smithers Genealogy
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Dr G.M.W.Mann. Baytrees Burnhams Rd, Lt.Bookham Surrey, U.K. KT23 3AU |
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2A Elizabeth Mary Ann SMITHERS
1859->1901
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1m Francis McGLADRIGAN 1879; 2m Joseph FOSTER 1880 |
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Elizabeth Mary Ann was born in 1859 at her grandparent’s home in
Stepney. Her mother was 20 years old
and unmarried and the father’s name is not known. Two years later, mother and daughter were living in Charles St
Stepney, close to her grandparents.
She was baptised at the age of 4 in the nearby St Peter’s Church. Elizabeth’s mother had a second illegitimate daughter in 1864, born in the
Mile End Workhouse, but in 1871, the family of Elizabeth, her mother and her
younger sister, were in Brentford. 12
year-old Elizabeth was listed as a dressmaker, a trade she may have learnt
from her mother or possibly at the nearby well-regarded British School in
Brentford, set up mainly for poor children. Later that year, Elizabeth’s mother married an Irish soldier, Timothy
NOONAN who was a student at the nearby School of Military Music. He left the army in 1876 and the whole
family moved to Shoebury in Essex.
Shoebury was a garrison town, which suggests the move was associated
with Timothy’s army connection. At Shoebury parish church in 1879, Elizabeth married a soldier
stationed in the garrison, but he died of pneumonia just 9 days after the marriage. Possibly Elizabeth was pregnant and the
marriage was undertaken to legitimise her child but no such birth was
registered in the following 9 months.
Just over one year later, Elizabeth married the soldier who had
witnessed her first marriage – Joseph FOSTER. Joseph was a corporal in the Royal Engineers at the time of his
marriage, but was promoted eventually to Sergeant Major. He moved with his regiment from Shoebury
to Woolwich (c1885) and then to Brighton (c1892). Elizabeth and her growing family moved with him. Three children were born in Shoebury, two
more in Woolwich where they lived in the Royal Artillery Barracks, and three
more in Brighton. All her children survived childhood, but little is known of the family
after 1901 when they were living in a house in D’Aubigny Rd, Brighton. In 1912, Ethel FOSTER was a bridesmaid at
the wedding of Herbert H Mann in Shoeburyness, while “Mr Foster and family”
gave a wedding present. |
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14Mar1859 7Apr1861
2 1Apr1863
4 17Dec1864 5 2Apr1871 12 Aug1871 12 28Mar1876 17 ? 1Jny1879 20 10Jny1879 20 29Mar1880 21 1880 21 4Apr1881 22 1882 23 25Jny1884 25 1884 25 1887 28 1889 30 5Apr1891 32 1894 35 1897 38 31Nar1901 42 22Apr1901 42 |
born in grandparent’s
house in Devonshire St, Stepney living with her mother
in Charles St, which backs on to Devonshire St. baptised at St Peter,
Cephas St, Stepney sister Lavinia born in
the Mile End Workhouse at Brentford with her
mother and sister mother married Timothy
NOONAN at Brentford Timothy discharged from
the army with a pension became a domestic
servant in Shoebury, married Francis
McGLADRIGAN, soldier, at Shoebury; witness Joseph FOSTER husband Francis died of
pneumonia married Joseph FOSTER,
soldier, at Brompton in Kent dau Lizzie Lavinia born
at Shoebury at Shoebury living with
husband and daughter, mother and step-father son Joseph James b at
Shoebury mother died at Shoebury dau Jessie b at Shoebury son Charles William b at
Woolwich Kent dau Ethel M b at
Woolwich living in Barracks at
Woolwich with 5 children; husband (Sergeant Major) not at home on census
night son Cecil Albert b at
Brighton dau Elsie Beatrice b at
Brighton living in Brighton with
her 7 children; husband not at home
on census night son Arthur Harold b at
Brighton |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
b
14Mar1859 Elizabeth Mary Ann female at
2 Devonshire St East. m: Elizabeth
SMITHERS; [father: blank]
r 7May1859 at Mile End Old Town, Eastern, MDX by
Elizabeth SMITHERS of Mile End Workhouse
C 1Apr1863 b 14Mar1859 Elizabeth Mary Ann d
Elizabeth SMITHERS, 64 Lincoln St, domestic servant
m 1[?]Jan1879 at S.Shoebury parish church after banns:
Francis McGLADRIGAN bch 34 Royal Artillery, South Shoebury & Elizabeth SMITHERS spr 20 of S Shoebury
f: Francis McGLADRIGAN carpenter, Timothy SMITHERS soldier; wit: Joseph FOSTER, Jessie SMITHERS
Francis died just 9
days after this marriage:
d 10Jan1879 Francis
McGLADRIGAN male 36, gunner Royal Artillery, of pneumonia at Shoeburyness
r 11Jan1879 at Gt.Wakering,
Rochford, by G.A.BROMLEY hospital orderly of Shoeburyness pad
[Can
pneumonia strike within 9 days, or was Elizabeth pregnant, so Francis married
her before his death to legitimise the baby?
However I found no McGladrigan (McGlad, McLad, MaGlad, MacGlad, etc)
birth registered within the next few years]
Elizabeth later re-married the witness at her first marriage:
m 29Mar1880 at Brompton Parish Church in county of Kent after banns
Joseph FOSTER 28 bch Corporal R.E. of Brompton & Elizabeth NOONAN 21 spr of Brompton
f: William FOSTER, farm bailiff; Timothy NOONAN, soldier
[Elizabeth’s mother married Timothy Noonan, a soldier, in 1871 when Elizabeth was 12 years old. It is unlikely that he was Elizabeth’s father, so it is not surprising that she gave her name as Smithers at her first marriage, and invented her father’s name as Timothy Smithers. By the time of her second marriage however, she seems to have accepted Timothy at least as a stepfather and changed her surname to Noonan. It is puzzling however that she called herself a spinster and not a widow].
from 1901 census and BMD indexes:
Lizzie
Lavinia FOSTER b4Q1880 Shoebury ESS (r
Rochford v4a p346) m2Q1905 Thomas BACK
or James Alfred M NEWSTEAD at Brighton vol2b p433
Joseph
James FOSTER b4Q1882 Shoebury ESS (r
Rochford v4a p368)
Jessie FOSTER b3Q1884 Shoebury ESS (r
Rochford v4a p411) ?m3Q1902 William BARNDEN(BARMDEN)/William CLEVETT Brighton
vol2b p446
Charles
William FOSTER b1Q1887 Woolwich KEN v1d p1254 ?m1Q1915 Florence E RADFORD at Brighton vol2b p327
?b19Jny1916 at Leeds Harehills Cemetery aged 28 (b1888)
Ethel M
FOSTER b1889 Woolwich KEN
[Ethel FOSTER was a bridesmaid at
the marriage of Herbert Henry MANN at Shoeburyness in June 1912; “Mr Foster and
family” gave a cutlery set as a wedding present [report og wedding in the
Southend Standard]
Cecil
Albert FOSTER b1Q1894 Brighton SSX
Elsie
Beatrice FOSTER b1Q1897 Brighton SSX
v2b p252) ?m3Q1915 Harold T B Barnard at Hollingbourne KEN [5m E of Maidstone] vol2a
p2609
Arthur
Harold FOSTER b22Apr1901 at 5 D’Aubigny
Rd r31May1901 by E.M.A.Foster mother, of 5 D’Aubigny Rd Brighton
f:Joseph
FOSTER, Quarter Master Sergeant, Royal Engineers; m:Elizabeth Mary Ann FOSTER,
late McGLADRIGAN formerly SMITHERS
As a child c1935/40, I remember a man named Arthur FOSTER who came round every week or so to my parent’s home in Shoebury to do small jobs like cleaning knives. It seems almost certain that he was this Arthur Foster, and thus my father’s cousin, though this was never mentioned. At what time and why he moved from Brighton to Shoebury, or whether any other of this family also moved to Shoebury is not known.
No information. There was a burial of Elizabeth FOSTER 24Jun1932 aged 73 [b1859] at Whatlington (near Hastings) but no evidence that this refers to EMA Foster.
Elizab’th SMITHERS he wid 22 1839 stay maker Maidenhead Berks
Elizab’th SMITHERS 2 1859 Mile End
Old Town
Elizabeth SMITHERS he wid 32 dress maker Hounslow MDX
Eliza Mary Ann SMITHERS da 12 dress maker
Mile End MDX
Jese Leine(sic)SMITHERS da 6 Mile End MDX
1881 South Shoebury,
3 John St RG11/1772 f62 p15.
Timothy NOONAN he mar 44 1837 laborer (Chelsea Pensioner) Tiperary Ireland
Elizabeth NOONAN wi mar 42 1839 Hounslow MDX
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Joseph FOSTER he mar 29 1852 Corporal Royal Engineers Sheffield YKS
Elizabeth FOSTER wi mar 22 1859 London MDX
Elizabeth FOSTER da unm 6m 1880 Shoeburyness
Elizabeth Mary Ann FOSTER wi mar 32 1859
London MDX
Lizzie Livinia FOSTER da 10 1881 Shoeburyness ESS
Joseph James FOSTER so 8 1883 Shoeburyness ESS
Jessie FOSTER da 6 1885 Shoeburyness ESS
Charles William FOSTER so 4 1887 Woolwich KEN
Ethel Mary FOSTER da 2 1889 Woolwich KEN
All were bracketed together and listed as “Family of Company Sergeant Major FOSTER, Royal Engineers”
Elizabeth
FOSTER wi mar 41 1860
London MDX
Lizzie
L Foster da sin 20 1881 Civil Service Telegraph Clerk Shoebury ESS
Joseph
J FOSTER so sin 18 1883 Shoebury ESS
Jessie FOSTER da sin 16 1885 Shoebury ESS
Charles
W FOSTER so sin 14 1887 Woolwoch KEN
Ethel
M FOSTER da 12 1889 Woolwich KEN
Cecil
A FOSTER so 7 1894 Brighton SSX
Elsie
B FOSTER da 4 1897 Brighton SSX
Southend
Standard, July 1912
Report of
wedding of Herbert H Mann to Elsie Florence WHENT named Ethel FOSTER as one of
the bridesmaids. A long list of those
who gave wedding presents included “Mr FOSTER and family” who gave a cutlery
set and case