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Seeking Elizabeth Meddoms Smith in the 1840s

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Emma

Emma Report 8 Nov 2013 21:59

I would dearly love to find out what became of my ancestor whose embroidered sampler is still in the family today. She was born Elizabeth Meddoms Corrall in Lutterworth, Leicestershire in 1777 and I have quite a bit of info about her early life as her grandfather, father and brother were clockmakers and are quite well documented. Unfortunately in 1798, she married a John Bower Smith, corkcutter of Uttoxeter: John & Elizabeth Smith must be about the worst names for any family historian to track down, hence my appeal here!

I know she was still alive but in very poor health on April 11th 1843 due to a letter I have, sent from Nottingham to their granddaughter in Hinckley, Leics. The address on a earlier letter (Sept 1842) is 18 Bromley Place, Nottingham - a thoroughfare which still exists in Nottingham city centre - it appears that at this time they may have been lodging with a Mr Holt.

If anyone could find them on the 1841 census or locate her death / burial record I would be overjoyed. They were very literate and for this reason I would be surprised if they failed to register. Her husband John died in Congleton in 1847 (I think) and I suspect she predeceased him, but just don't know.

They had four children that I know of - eldest daughter Rosamond Wilson Smith (born in Leicester in 1799) who married Leicestershire schoolmaster Francis Oliver; a son William Powers Smith (b.1800) who was the editor of the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald for 28 years and two unmarried daughters Eliza (b.1802) and Mary Bower Smith. Can anyone find record of any others?

Any info you can supply me with would be of great interest. Thank you in advance!