In Search of a Glemsford Family

Further Developments and Additions

One of the delights - some would say frustrations of Family Research is that it has the potential to be endless.

The availabilility of more and more material "on line", particularly the Census returns, has allowed us to get that much further back into the 19th Century.

 		  

The previous page looked at the earlier material on the Browns themselves - the "main line" - but it would be silly to restrict ourselves too much to the name "Brown".
After all, Charles and Sarah Smith had already revealed a few points of interest. They were the parents of Susannah, later to be the wife of George Brown, and the mother of Araminta - and the rest!

 

At the time of the 1851 Census, Charles (35) and Sarah (also 35) were living on Brook Street.
Just as in 1871, Charles is described as a "Woodman".
With Charles and Sarah were their children:
  • William, 14, also a Woodman
  • Henry, 11, "Carpet Work from Cocoa Nut"
  • George, 8, ditto.
  • Walter, 6, at home
  • Eliza, 3, at home
  • John, 10 months, at home
    and
  • Mary Ann Smith, Visitor, 15, Silk winder

and I will admit that a devious part of me wonders if the Mary Ann Smith, visiting in 1851, might, by 1868, h ave been the Mary Ann who became Charles's second wife (as Mary Ann Stiff), but such idle conjecture is unworthy of me, and I will develop it no further.

In 1841, Charles and Sarah were already living on Brook Street with William and Henry.

 

Next Update Page

What we know about the
Brown Family History
and something of their progress later
in the 20th Century

 		  

Follow the search for the
Savage family
of Cavendish,
with several twists and turns,
or go
straight to the start of our findings.

   
   
   
   

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© Tracey Foulds, Sandra Poole and Stephen Clarke
December 1 2005
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