Birth: Circa 1841 Hastings?, Sussex, UK
Father: William Smith c1810-1884
Mother: Mary ? c1815-1878
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 26 November 1870 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Jane Fullick 1849-1937
Death: July 1911 2 Park Hurst Farm Cottage, Churt, Surrey, UK
Burial: 11 July 1911 St John the Evangelist, Churt, Surrey, UK
Catherine Anne Smith 1871-1893
Ernest William Smith 1874-a1911
Murray Percival Smith 1877-1883
Darcy Christina (Christine) Smith [Moore] 1880-1975
Margaret Isabel Smith [Wheeler] 1882-1915
Florence Phoebe Josephine Smith [Boxall] 1884-1977
Another two unidentified children died before 1911
His date and place of birth is uncertain but seems to have been in the Hastings area circa 1841.
I cannot locate the family in the 1841 census.
In the 1851 census as James Smith aged 16, born in Northamptonshire (sic - in the index, original illegible, could be Cumpton? Sussex), single, a sawyer, and living with his parents (William and Mary).
I cannot locate him in the 1861 census.
Marriage of James Smith and Jane Fullick in FreeBMD in October-December 1870 in Alton (2c 306).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for James Smith and Jane Fullick on 26 November 1870 in Headley, Hampshire.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of James Smith, father William Smith, and Jane Fullick on 26 November 1870 at Headley, All Saints. "Page 132 1870 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Headley in the County of Southampton. [No.] 263 Nov 26 James Smith [of] full [age, a] Bachelor [and] Sawyer [of] Headley [father] William Smith [a] Hawker [and] Jane Fulick [of[ full [age, a] Spinster [of] Headley [father] Henry Fullick [a] Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church Banns [...] in the Presence of us George Fifield [who made his mark and] Fanny Fifield [who made her mark]".
In the 1871 census as James Smith aged 32, born in Headley, Hampshire, a sawyer, and living with his wife (Jane) at Barford, Headley, Hampshire.
His daughter was baptised on 4 February 1872 when he was a Sawyer living in Barford.
His son was baptised on 4 October 1874 in Headley when he was a labourer living at Cook's Farm, Barford.
His daughter was baptised on 4 April 1880 in Churt when he was a sawyer living in Barford, Headley.
In the 1881 census as James Smith aged 40, born in Hastings, Kent (sic - on the original), a stoker in a shody factor, and living with his wife (Jane), two sons (Ernest W and Murray P) and two daughters (Catherine A and and Darcy C) at Barford, Headley, Hampshire. The shody factory was Barford Lower Mill.
His daughter was baptised on 5 October 1884 in Churt when he was a sawyer living in Headley,.
In the 1891 census as James Smith aged 50, born in Headley, Hampshire, a sawyer, and living with his wife (Jane), son (Earnest) and three daughters (Darcy, Margaret and Florance) at Red Hearne Green, Churt, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as James Smith aged 60, born in Hastings, Kent, a rough carpenter, and living with his wife (Jane), son (Ernest W) and daughter (Florence) at Redhearne, Churt, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as James Smith aged 73, born in Hastings, Sussex, a farm labourer, and living with his wife (Jane), son (Ernest), and three boarders (George Moger aged 27, born in Dorset, single and a domestic gardener, Charlie Pullen aged 19, single, an under gardener and ? King aged 24, born in Essex and an assistant grocer) in four rooms at 2 Park Hurst Farm Cottage, Crossways, Churt, Surrey.
Death of James Smith in FreeBMD in July-September 1911 aged 74 in Farnham (2a 215).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997 for James Smith on 11 July 1911 aged 74 at Churt, St John the Evangelist, with Rushmoor. "Page 40 Burials in the Parish of Churt in the County of Surrey in the Year 1911-12 [...] James Smith No. 315 [of] Parkhurst Farm Churt [on] July 11th 1911 [aged] 74 years".
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Smith.
Entry in The Pastoral Notebooks of Wallis Hay Laverty, rector of Headley 1872–1928
James Smith was the husband of Jane Fullick, my great grandaunt.
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