Birth: 20 October 1870 Ramsgate, Kent, UK
Father: George Smith 1850-a1881
Mother: Maria Garling 1850-a1881
Marriage: October-December 1895 Thanet, Kent, UK
Husband: Thomas Thorne 1868-1925
Death: April-June 1940 Elham, Kent, UK
Winifred Kate Thorne [Draker] 1896-a1921
Florence May Ann Thorne [Morris] 1897-1971
Arthur Cyril James Thorne 1898-1940
Thomas Stanley Thorne 1900-1900
Maud Beatrice Thorne 1901
Dorothy Lilian Thorne [Akhurst] 1904-1934
Lilian Mary Thorne 1907
Violet Nellie May Thorne [Dunkling] 1911-1967
Birth of Florence Ann Smith in FreeBMD in July-September 1870 in Thanet (2a 806).
In the 1871 census as Florence Smith aged 7 (months on the original), born in Ramsgate, Kent, and living with her parents (George and Mary), and three lodgers (Thomas Tuck aged 53, born in St Peters, Thanet, Kent, his wife Elizabeth aged 53 and born in Ashford, Kent, and son John aged 13 and born in Ramsgate, Kent) at 11 Meeting? Street, Ramsgate, Kent.
In the 1881 census as Florence A Smith aged 10, born in Ramsgate, Kent and living with her parents (George and Maria), two brothers (Arthur and Harry O) and sister (Maud M) at 3 Packers Lane, Ramsgate, Kent.
In the 1891 census as Florence Smith aged 20, born in Ramsgate, Kent, single, and a former domestic servant at the House of Mercy, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
Marriage of Florence Ann Smith and Thomas Thorne in FreeBMD in October-December 1895 in Thanet (2a 1817 in the index, 1847 on the typed original).
In the 1901 census as Florence C (in the index, A on the original) Thorne aged 30, born in Ramsgate, Kent and living with her husband (Thomas), son (Arthur A J) and two daughters (Florence M A and Winifred K) at 9 Woodland Avenue, St Lawrence Intra, Kent.
In the 1911 census as Florence Ann Thorne aged 42, born in Ramsgate, Kent, married for 16 years with seven children, one having died, and living with her husband (Thomas), son (Arthur Cyril James), and five daughters (Dorothy Lilian, Florence May Ann, Lillian Mary, Maud Beatrice and Winifred Kate) in three rooms at 6 Love Lane, Margate, Margate St John the Baptist, Kent.
Her husband died at 6 Railway Terrace, Margate, Kent on 1 December 1925 and left effects of £216 6s. to Florence Ann Thorne widow.
Death of Florence A Thorne in FreeBMD in April-June 1940 in Elham (2a 3257).
There are twentytwo entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Florence Ann Smith.
Florence Ann Smith was the mother of Dorothy Lilian Thorne, wife of William John Akhurst, grandnephew of Sarah Jane Gill, wife of my great grandfather George William Payne.
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