Birth: 9 October 1885 Witley, Surrey, UK
Father: Levi Smither (Smithers) 1861-1909
Mother: Rhoda Court 1861-1927
Christening: 18 November 1885 Witley, Surrey, UK
Marriage: January-March 1913 Hambledon, Surrey, UK
Wife: Clara Ann (Annie) Mullard [Raynsford] 1887-1933
Death: April-June 1977 Cuckfield, Sussex, UK
None known
Birth of Arthur Smithers in FreeBMD in October-December 1885 in Hambledon (2a 132). Birth place from 1891 census. Note that another Arthur Smithers was born in Dunsfold, also in Hambledon, in about 1884/5.
Christening of Arthur Smithers in the IGI on 18 November 1885 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi and Rhoda Smithers.
His brothers were born in Witley in 1887 and 1889.
In the 1891 census as William Smithers aged 1, born in Witley, Surrey, and living with his parents (Levi and Rhoda), two brothers (Alfred and Arhtur), half-brother (Levi) and sister (Ruth) at Grayswood, Witley, Surrey.
His brothers and sisters were also born in Witley in 1892 to 1900.
In the 1901 census as William Smithers aged 11, born in Witley, Surrey, and living with his parents (Levi and Rhoda), four brothers (Alfred J, Arthur, Leonard and Walter), half-brother (Levi) and three sisters (Clara, Hilda May and Ruth) at New Farm, Grayswood, Witley, Surrey.
His father died in Hambledon in 1909.
In the 1911 census as William Smithers, no age in the index but 21 on the original, born in Witley, Surrey, single, an assistant on farm at home and living with his widowed mother (Rhoda), four brothers (Alfred, Arthur, Lenard and Walter), three sisters (Clara, Hilda and Ruth) and three cousins (Dorothy, Eva and Jane) in eight rooms at New Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey.
Marriage of Arthur Smithers and Clara A Raynsford in FreeBMD in January-March 1913 in Hambledon (2a 273).
He was an executor of William Mullard's Will in 1934 which states he was a farmer left with effects of £442 13s 4d.
In the probate entry for his wife who lived at Hill House Farm in Ardingly and died in 1933 he was a farmer and an executor effects £168 9s 5d.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Arthur Smithers, born on 9 October 1885, in April-June 1977 aged 91 in Cuckfield (18 1963).
Bernie Harkensee and Linda Ann Hardy have entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Arthur Smither born in 1885 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi Smithers and Rhoda Court. R A Cordingley adds his marriage to Clara Ann Mullard in Hambledon, Surrey in 1913.
Arthur Smithers was my tenth cousin once removed.
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