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EVANS/GLAZIER/MERCER/SMITHER TREE TM 4 September
2006 b=born
m=married d=died Dr
G.M.W.Mann Baytrees C=Christened B=Buried
Burnhams Rd, Lt.Bookham
Surrey, U.K. KT23 3AU F=Froyle
HAM geoff.mann@btinternet.com
St=Stoke-nr-Guildford SRY W
=Worplesdon SRY EVANS
family summary |
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Wm SMITHER-m-Christian STRUDWICK James_GLAZIER-m-Hannah_YOUNG Thomas SMITHERS-m-Elzth HALE
C1731 | m1760W
| m1769W C1733W |
m1761W
B1794 | B1782W
| B1812W |
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[1] 1---- - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - -^--7 [2] |
[1] 5 James SMITHER-m-Sarah GLAZIER Joseph_MERCER-m-Martha
GLAZIER James
SMITHER-m-Sarah EVANS C1768W
| C1771W m1805W | C1789St C1779W | C1780F m1790W
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| 1-------^--2 1- - - MERCER - - -^- - - -?- - 8---------9 ------^--6 [2] 4 William
Charlotte Joseph Charles EVANS--m?-Ann Charlotte William James S SMITHERS C1791W
C1793W C1806W | C1826W 1829W
C1816W
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[3] | [4]
1---EVANS--^----?--2 3
Charles_Mercer Joseph
b1844Kingston b1849 B1875W
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[1] There are three James
SMITHER to consider all born at Worplesdon between 1768 and 1786. :
i: C 1768 son of Wm & Christian;
ii C 1779 son of Thomas & Elizabeth.
iii:C 1786 son of Thomas
& Leah (not shown on this tree)
Who did they marry?
iii: the 1848 will of Thomas
(of Thomas & Leah) and the 1852 will of his son George show that this James
married Milly LEGG (see SMITHERS tree 6B)
ii: the James who married Sarah EVANS in 1803 was born about 1780 according to death certificate, burial record and 1841 census (exact?) age 61, so cannot be the son of William & Christian b1768. This also rules out the possibility that James ii married Sarah EVANS secondly
i:
the 1841 census has James a publican & Sarah aged 70 which fits the
James who married Sarah GLAZIER as son of Wm & Christian; moreover, James who married Sarah EVANS was a farmer not a
publican
The above reasoning seems faultless, but a number of
factors give cause for concern that the left and right hand sides of the tree
have somewhere been confused:
i Martha GLAZIER
[2] was godmother to James S SMITHERS [2], son of James & Sarah on the
right hand side of the tree – yet her sister married James SMITHERS son of Wm
& Christian on the left hand side of the tree. If James S Smithers were on the left hand side, then Martha would
have been his aunt, a natural relation for godmother. As it is, the connection is more tenuous: James i and James ii
were cousins and Martha GLAZIER came from Stoke where Sarah EVANS was married
ii the m of James
to Sarah GLAZIER on the left hand side in 1790 was witnessed by Elizabeth HALL,
who could well be the wife of Thomas on the right hand side (despite spelling
change)
iii there is
an earlier Worplesdon marriage of James SMITHER to Jane STRUDWICK followed
by burial of Jane:
m 31Mar1801 Worplesdon:James x SMITHER otp & Jane x
STRUDWICK otp by banns; wit: Thomas STRUDWICK, JI
B 14Aug1801 Worplesdon: Jane, 21, wife of James SMITHER,
Perry Hill
It might be expected that this
would be the James on the left hand side as his mother was Christian STRUDWICK
(though no immediate connection has been established between Christian and Jane
(daughter of Thomas & Hannah STRUDWICK).
However, if this were the left hand James, then it would be his second
marriage and there is no suitable burial of his first wife Sarah – and she is
believed to be in the 1841 census. On
the other hand, ages and dates fit very well to the right hand James, and Jane
was of Perry Hill when she died, known to be the abode of right hand James,
whereas the left hand side James was of Pitch Place in 1841
It is
concluded that these factors are not sufficient to doubt the above arrangement
For a discussion of the EVANS connections see tree EVANS-TM