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Tag Archives: Lancelot Smith
The Islington Families
This is the fourth in a series of four posts about the children of William Smith of Melmerby (1781-1857) and his wife Mary Longrigg. The three Smiths I am writing about in this post are William, Elizabeth and Lancelot – … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Gamblesby, Harrison, Islington, London, Melmerby, Photographs, Places, Smith
Tagged Ada Mary Harrison, Clara Wilhelmina Harrison, Cumberland, Eleanor Morrison, Elizabeth Harrison, Elizabeth Maude Harrison, Elizabeth Smith, Gamblesby, Horace Smith, Lancelot Smith, Mabel Gertrude Harrison, William Harrison, William Harrison-Smith, William Smith
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The Two Milliners
This is the third in a series of four posts about the family of William Smith of Melmerby (1781-1857) and his wife Mary Longrigg. The two milliners are two of William Smith’s four daughters: Mary Sutton and Agnes Scott. Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Islington, Melmerby, Penrith, Reigate, Scott, Smith, Sutton
Tagged Agnes Scott, Agnes Smith, Elinor Smith, Francis Scott, Hannah Smith, Henry Sutton, James Henry Driver Sutton, Lancelot Smith, Mary Smith, Mary Sutton, William Smith
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William Smith of Melmerby (1781-1857) and his family
This is the first of four posts I am writing about William Smith and his family even though they are not direct ancestors of mine (William was my great-great-grandfather’s older brother). I am doing this because I have found some … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Gamblesby, Melmerby, Smith
Tagged Agnes Scott, Ann Dobson, Elizabeth Harrison, Hannah Huddart, John Smith, Lancelot Smith, Mary Longrigg, Mary Sutton, William Smith
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More Branches and Twigs on the Family Tree
In my original quest for information about my Smith ancestors – starting from my grandfather William Smith of Blackhall – I was most interested in tracing back the male line to the origins of the Smith family in the small … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Gamblesby, Hardy, Huddart, Melmerby, Smith, Tipperary
Tagged George Hardy Smith, John Smith, Lancelot Smith, William Smith
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The Melmerby Smiths after 1821
This is a brief summary of the Smiths who lived and farmed in Melmerby, in the Eden Valley of Cumberland, after 1821. They stayed in Melmerby after my great-great-grandfather Lancelot Smith and most of his children went to farm in … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Gamblesby, Hardy, Melmerby, Smith
Tagged Cumberland, Families, Gamblesby, George Hardy Smith, Hardy, Harrison, Hesket, John Smith, Kirkoswald, Lancelot Smith, Mary Hardy, Mary Jackson, Mary Longrigg, Melmerby, Park Head, Penrith, Stainmore, William Smith
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Priscilla Kent
This post is about Priscilla Kent, who was the mother of Elizabeth (Eliza) Upton and the maternal grandmother of William Smith of Blackhall. Therefore, she is my great-great-grandmother (2x great-grandmother). I am adding this post to my blog even though … Continue reading
Posted in Cashel, Going, Kent, Nenagh, Tipperary, Upton
Tagged Eliza Upton, Lancelot Smith, Lower Ormond, Nenagh, Priscilla Kent, Randal Kent, Thomas Kent, Tipperary
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Eliza Upton
(Updated November 17, 2017) Elizabeth Upton is the second Mrs. Smith that I am writing about in this blog. Her baptismal name was Elizabeth but it seems she was always called Eliza. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Eliza as a … Continue reading
The Children of Lancelot Smith of Gamblesby
In the “Family Stories” section of this blog, I have now added a page that summarizes the lives of the children of Lancelot Smith of Gamblesby and his wife Elizabeth Westgarth. Unfortunately I don’t know a lot about most of … Continue reading
Posted in Bouskill, Families, Gamblesby, Smith, Westgarth
Tagged Bouskill, Corballis, Elizabeth Westgarth, Gamblesby, Lancelot Smith, Thomas Smith, William Smith
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Gamblesby in the 1820s
The following information is extracted mostly from the “History, Directory, Gazetteer, of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland …” by William Parson and William White, published in 1829. Gamblesby is in the Parish of Addingham. Up to the end of … Continue reading
Who is This?
There is a photographic puzzle that I hope you will help me solve. Among the old photographs that I have received from family members are these two portrait-style pictures taken around 1868 to 1870. The one on the left was … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Photographs, Smith
Tagged John Smith, Lancelot Smith, Photographs, Thomas Smith
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A Lot of Lancelots
There are a lot of Lancelots in our Smith family tree. While this name has been useful in helping to identify the right family of Smiths to follow, it can get confusing when none of the early Lancelots was given … Continue reading
The Farm near Cashel
When Lancelot Smith and most of his family moved to Ireland in the 1850s, they rented a farm near Cashel, County Tipperary, in the townland called Rathcoun (also written as Rathcowan, Rathcown or Rathcoon). The townland is about 2 miles … Continue reading
Posted in Cashel, Smith
Tagged Cashel, Corballis, Cumberland, Donabate, Eliza Upton, Hannah Smith, Joseph Backhouse, Lancelot Smith, Rathcoun, Tipperary
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William Smith Family History 