Parish Register for Baptism of Charles Smith and son of Charles and Ann Smith, St Katharine Coleman, London, England, 6 November 1780.

Will. Cit. Date: 9 April 1833.

I CHARLES SMITH of Brunswick Place, Bowyer Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surry, Ship Agent, do hereby revoke all wills codicils and other testamentary dispositions made by me at my time or times heretofore and do publish and declare this to be and contain my last Will and Testament I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my dear wife Frances Smith Executrix and James Heuson of Weymouth Street, Newington in the county of Surry, Traveller and Thomas Coxhead of Berresford Street, Newington aforesaid Accountant Executors of this my Will In the first place I direct my Executrix and Executors or the survivors or a survivor of them to pay all my just debts funeral and testamentary charges and expenses as soon as conveniently may be after my decease My funeral as also the place of my interment I leave to the sole management and direction of my said wife if she shall be living at my decease but in the event of the death of my said wife in my lifetime I leave the direction of my funeral to be arranged by my children if either of them shall have attained the age of sixteen years but if not then as my executors or the survivor of them shall see fit whereas I have lately affected an insurance on my life for the sum of five hundred pounds in the Office called the Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance for the Assurance of lives and I am possessed of the policy granted in pursuance of such insurance numbered 137 and dated the seventh day of June last under the hands and seals of the then acting Directors of the said Company And I am also possessed of interested in and entitled to an interest in two ships or vessels the one called the Havante and the other called the Jubilee my share and interest in the Havante being one eighth part and my share and interest in the Jubilee being one quarter part and I am also wholly interested in certain craft boats and other things appended and appurtenant to such craft Now I do hereby give devise and bequeath unto my said wife Frances Smith and the said James Heuson and Thomas Coxhead and the survivors and survivor of them the said sum of five hundred pounds to be received from the Directors of the said Insurance Office called the Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance Office and all addition that may be made thereto in way of terms or otherwise And instruct my Executrix and Executors or the survivors or survivor of them to receive the same and immediately after the receipt thereof to lay out and invest the said sum of five hundred pounds together with such additions as aforesaid of any interest in their joint names or in the names or name of the survivors or survivor of them in some or one of the public funds of Great Britain and to stand possessed thereof for the purpose hereinafter mentioned I also give devise and bequeath unto my said Executrix and Executors and the survivors and survivor of them all my parts shares and interests in the said ships both and either of them whichever may be the case at the time of my death and all monies or securities that may be then one and owing to me in respect thereof and I desire them my said Executrix and Executors and the survivo rs or survivor of them to collect and receive with all possible dispatch after my decease all monies that may be coming due or owing to me in respect of my shares and interest in the said ship or either of them and to lay out and invest the monies so to be received by them or either of them in Government stocks funds or securities in them joint names or in the name or names of the survivors or survivor of them and to stand possessed thereof upon the trusts herein before mentioned And I leave it to the discretion of my said Wife whether she will continue my interest in the said ships or cause the same to be sold And in the cause of my said Wife determining not to continue my share and interest in such ships Then I direct my said Executrix and Executors or the survivors or survivor of them to cause the same to be sold by Public Auction unless it shall appear to them on the best information they can obtain that it will be most advantageous to dispose thereof by private contract And direct them my said Executrix and Executors and the survivors or survivor of them to concur in every Act that may be neccesary to facilitate the sale disposition or transfer thereof and the produce to arise by the sale disposition and transfer of my share and interest in such ships I direct my said Executrix and Executors to sell or cause to be sold as conveniently may be after my decease all my boats craft gear and implements of a lighterman or any way appertaining thereto and to invest the produce of such sale in their names in the names or name of the survivors or survivor of them in government securities for the purposes hereinafter mentioned I give devise and bequeath unto my said Executrix and Executors and the survivors and survivor of them my full and whole share and interest in whatever business or engagement I may be concerned in or interested at the time of my decease and all monies or securities for money in respect thereof book debts vouchers papers or instruments relative thereof and my stock of same wherever the same may be And I do direct them to dispose and convert of such part or parts thereof as may not consist of money into money and to lay out and invest the proceeds thereof with the money they may otherwise receive in life Government stocks or funds in their names or the names or name of the survivors or survivor of them for the purposed hereinafter mentioned And I also give devise and bequeath unto my said Executrix and Executors and the survivors or survivor of them all other my estate and effects of what nature quality or description the same may be except my household furniture and effects And I direct them to sell and dispose of such Estate and Effects (household furniture and effects excepted) and to lay out and invest the produce thereof in government stocks funds or securities in their names or in the names or name of their survivors or survivor of them And I do hereby declare that my said Executrix and Executors and the survivor or survivor of them shall stand possessed of and interested in the stocks funds and securities to be purchased as aforesaid and the dividends and interest to arise and become payable in respect thereof Upon trust to pay to or permit and suffer my said Wife to receive and take such interest dividends and proceeds during the term of her natural life if she shall so long continue my Widow to enable her to support herself and bring up and educate my children names Charles James Smith Marian Ellen Smith and Frances Smith and I commit the custody and guardianship of my said children to the care of my said dear Wife in full confidence of her affectionate zeal for their welfare and advancement And I give and devise and bequeath unto my said Executrix and Executors All my household goods and furniture plate china and linen and implements of household furniture And I direct that an Inventory shall be made thereof immediately after my decease And that two copies thereof shall be signed by my Executrix and Executors and the survivors and survivor of them one copy whereof shall be kept by my said Wife and the other by my Executors or the survivor of them And I desire that my said Wife shall have the exclusive use and enjoyment of all the articles and things mentioned and comprised in such Inventory during the term of her natural life if she shall so long continue my Widow And that immediately after her decease or marrying again the said household goods and furniture shall be sold and disposed of and the produce thereof laid out in government stocks funds or securities and invested in the name or names of my continuing executor or executors And that the whole of the stocks funds or securities so to be purchased by them as aforesaid shall be equally divided among my children when and as they shall attain the age of twenty one years And I declare that in the event of my said Wife marrying again she shall lose and forfeit all right and benefit under this my Will and cease to act as Executrix I direct that my children in the event of the decease of my said Wife or her marrying again shall not acquire or take any interest part share or proportion of the stocks funds or securities to be purchased as aforesaid until he she or they shall attain the age of twenty one years but in the event of either of such children dying under that age the share or proportion of the deceased child shall belong to and be shared by the survivors and if but one then to that only child unless it shall so happen that either of my child or children shall die before the death or marriage of my said Wife having been previously married and lease any child or children in which case it is my express will and intention And I hereby declare that if any or either of my children or child shall marry before the death or marriage of my said wife and leave any child or children lawfully begotten him her or them surviving then that the child or children so surviving his or her parent interested under this my will shall have and be entitled to the share and interest which his or her deceased parent would have survived if such parent had lived until the death or marriage of my said Wife And if all my said children shall die without leaving any child or children lawfully begotten him or them surviving Then I direct that the stocks funds and securities to be purchased with or out of my Estate and Effects shall be divided according to the Statute for the distribution of Intestates Estates and Effects And I hereby declare my will and intention to be that if I shall leave any one or more child or children I now have And I give and bequeath unto the said James Heuson and Thomas Coxhead the sum of ten guineas each as a token of my respect and esteem for them provided also and I do hereby further declare that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Executrix and Executors and the survivors and survivor of them and their his or her respective have executors and administrators by and out of all or any of the monies which by virtue of this my will shall come to their or any of their hands deduct certain to and reimburse himself herself and themselves and also to pay to his her or their co executors all such costs charges and expenses as they respectively shall or may sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution of this my Will or all or any of the trusts aforesaid And also that they the said Frances Smith, James Heuson and Thomas Coxhead their respective heirs executors and administrators shall be charged and chargeable only every of them for and with his and her own respective receipts payments acts and wilful defaults and not otherwise and shall not be charged or chargeable with or for acceptance or sums of money other than such as shall actually and respectively come to them on any or either of their hands by virtue of this my will nor with or for any loss or damage which may happen in or about the execution of all or any of the trusts aforesaid without his her or their wilful default In witness whereof I the said Charles Smith have to this my last Will and Testament contained in five sheets of paper to the first four sheets thereof set my hand and to this fifth and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six CHARLES SMITH Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Charles Smith the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other of us have hereunto subscribed our names as witness thereto W Patterson 7 Copthall Court London Joseph Maggucchi 50 Kings Square Goswell St Road

WHEREAS by this Will and Testament dated the nineteenth day of October 1826 I have bequeathed unto James Houson and Thomas Coxhead the sum of ten guineas each and have appointed them my Executors in trust Now I do hereby in this Codicil entirely revoke and make void and void all that relates to them and do appoint Mr Bas Plummer to act in their stead and also desire the above mentioned sums to be at the disposal of my dear Wife Frances Smith dated October 21st 1833 Chas Smith Chas Smith Witness P.S. Manico surgeon Peckham Ann Mary Pillmer.

APPEARED personally Peter Smith Manico of Peckham in the County of Surry Surgeon and made oath that he is one of the subscribed witnesses to the annexed Codicil as well as the drawer and writer thereof being the Codicil to the last Will and Testament of Charles Smith late of Brunswick Place Bowyer Lane Camberwell in the County of Surrey Ship Agent deceased the said Will bearing date the nineteenth of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and the said Codicil bearing date through error the month of October 21st 1833 instead of the month of March that this deponent was present when the said deceased executed the said Codicil on the said twenty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that the error in the said date entirely arose from this deponent inadvertently inserting the month on which the will bears date and which had been rented in the body of the said Codicil instead of the month of March the month in which the said Codicil was executed as aforesaid PS Manico On the 8th day of April 1833 the said Peter Smith Manico was duly sworn to the within Affidavit before use WC Curteis Sur PRest Wm Gostling .

PROVED at London with a Codicil 9th April 1833 before the Worshipful William Calverley Curtois Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of Frances Smith widow the Executrix named in the will and James Plummer the Executor named in the said Codicil to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.

Parish Register for Burial of Frances Smith, St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, London, England, 10 April 1838.

Will. Cit. Date: 9 June 1838.

This is the last Will and Testament of me Frances Smith widow of Brunswick Place, Bowyer Lane, Lambeth I give and bequeath unto my two daughters Marian Ellen and Frances in equal Original shares my Policy of Insurance in the Rock Life Insurance Company together with all other Property which may belong to me at the time of my decease whether it consists in freehold copyhold or leasehold Estates money in the funds goods chattels or any description of property whatsoever In witness whereof I have this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five set my hand a seal Frances Smith Witness James Plummer, Charlotte Plummer, 16 Poland St, Oxford Street

ON the 9th day of June 1838 Administration of the Will annexed of the goods and chattels and assets of Frances Smith formerly of Brunswick Place, Bowyer Lane, Lambeth in the County of Surrey but late of East Dulwich in the same County widow deceased was granted to Marian Ellen Smith Spinster the natural and lawful daughter of the said deceased and one of the Universal Legatees named in the said Will having been first sworn duly to admr. No Executor being named in the said Will.

Parish Register for Baptism of Marian Ellen Smith and dau of Charles, agent of camberwell, and Frances Smith, St Giles, Camberwell, London, UK, 26 July 1826.

1851 England and Wales census.

1851 UK Census

Place: 199 North Meols, Lancashire, England

Address: Bold Arms, Lord Street

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Enumeration Date: 30 March 1851

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1861 England and Wales census, Waterloo Road, Litherland, Lancashire, England, head of household: J H Smith.

1861 UK Census

Place: Litherland, Lancashire, England

Address: Waterloo Road

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Enumeration Date: 7 April 1861

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Deaths. Cit. Date: 24 July 1869.

SMITH, July 21 at Ben Rhydding, Marian Ellen Smith, niece of John Hawleigh Smith, of this town. (Liverpool)

Parish Register for Burial of Marian Ellen Smith and spinster of Ilkley, Yorkshire,, single burial, Toxteth Park Cemetery, Mersyside, UK, 24 July 1869.

Parish Register for Baptism of Charles James Smith, born 10 June 1814 and son of Charles, agent of Camberwell, and Frances Smith, St Giles, Camberwell, London, UK, 26 July 1826.

Inquest. Cit. Date: 6 June 1834.

INQUEST Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser Friday 6 June 1834. Pg 4.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. Coroners Inquest. On Wednesday evening an inquisition was held at the Shades Tavern, Tower-hill, on the body of a young man named Charles James Smith, an apprentice to a lighterman, who was drowned in the Thames off Erith under the following circumstances.

Mr Thomas Durant, of St Georges in the East, lighterman, deposed that on Wednesday week, the deceased, Mr Sherrer, and himself, went out for a sail in a skiff to Northfleet, which they reached in safety, and then turned back, having a light breeze with the wind from N.N.E. In Half-way Reach, they were coming along under easy canvas, when a sudden gust of wind sunk the boat stern foremost. There were all in consequence plunged into the water. After he had been in the water about a minute he observed that two boards had blowed up out of the skiff and were floating near them. He called out to Mr Sherrer to seize hold of the one that was nearest him, and witness swam after the other, a distance of about twenty yards, his coat flapping all the while over his face. Having reached it, he swam with it to the deceased, who was unable to swim, and had by want of presence of mind and excessive struggling nearly exhausted himself. Witness gave him the board, and observed him take hold of it, but he was apparently too exhausted to make a firm grasp of it. Witness then left him, trusting his own safety to his ability of swimming. Observing two empty bottles had risen, he swam successively to them, thinking they would be sufficient to support him, but he found they would not. Just as he reached the second bottle, he, on looking round, saw the deceased in the act of sinking, and, before he could get to his assistance, he had sunk for the last time. Witness then swam to the board he had brought to the deceased, and held till a barge came up and rescued him and Mr Sherrer. The board was about twelve feet long and two inches thick, and was amply sufficient to have supported two persons if they knew how to hold on. When he brought the board to the deceased, he left it wholly with him, as he feared, from the manner in which he was struggling, and his being a powerful man, that he might seize hold of him (witness), and they must then both have perished together. The main-sheet rope was not belayed (fastened) at the time of the accident, but was merely turned once under the pin, and witness had his foot on the end of it. Witness steered, and took the entire management of the boat upon himself. Just before the accident, as they seemed to be coming on with a gentle safe breeze, he suggested to his companions that they should have their dinner, which was assented to, and it was accordingly produced on deck. Witness was in the act of stooping to help himself, still having one hand on the rudder, and his foot on the main-sheet rope, when the sudden gust of wind coming on, he was thrown backwards into the stern sheets, before he could have an opportunity of letting go the rope, and the boat instantly went down. There was no swell before or after its going down. The skiff was properly rigged, and was one of the finest and fastest of its kind on the river. He attributed the accident to the gust of wind having got under the foresail, which, in the opinion of seamen, is a very powerful sail; and the fore part of the boat being thus lifted up, it went down by the stern. The boat was of two-and-a-half tons burthen, and had about 12 cwt. of ballast on board. It had been built expressly for carrying merchandize on the river, and there was not a fairer laid out one to be seen between London and Gravesend. Witness had been used to sailing for twenty years, and had often been down with the boat as far before. The river was about a mile broad where the accident occurred, but the boat was not more than a third of that distance from the Kent coast. Witness did not attempt to swim ashore, but trusted to being picked up by some vessel. He had intended swimming ashore, from his knowledge of the way the tide set in there, he should have preferred making for the Essex coast.

Mr Charles Sherrer, of Chancery place, Camberwell, corroborated the last witness as to the circumstances o the accident. He considered no blame to be attributable to any one. The deceased and the rest of the party had only partaken of a glass of ale and a slice of German sausage during the morning.

The Coroner, in summing up, said he felt it necessary to state that in strictness of law he had no authority in this case, the deceased having died out of the jurisdiction, in fact, within that of the Coroner for Kent, and had he found that any blame rested with any one, he should have felt it his duty to have sent the case for investigation before the legally constituted officers for that county, but in this case death appeared to be wholly the result of accident, and looking to the very decomposed state of the body, he considered that they might close the inquiry here by returning a verdict of Accidental Death. Enough had been done by the open investigation that had now taken place to satisfy the public mind, and the relatives of the unfortunate deceased. A bill was now before Parliament which, if it passed into the law would legally remedy the difficulty that now existed by allowing the inquest to be held wherever the body was found.

The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, and the Coroner thereupon granted a warrant for the interment of the corpse.

Parish Register for Burial of Charles James Smith and of Camberwll, St Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney, London, UK, 6 June 1834.

Parish Register for Baptism of Frances Smith and dau of Charles, lighterman, and Frances Smith, St Giles, Camberwell, London, UK, 2 August 1816.

Announcement in Manchester Courier and Lancashie General Advertiser, 16 August 1866.

DEATHS - Frances Smith, niece of John Hawleigh Smith Esq of Liverpool, and younger daughter of the late Charles Smith Esq of Camberwell, Surrey.

Monumental Inscription. Toxteth Cemetery, Liverpool, UK. Cit. Date: 18 August 1866.

"In Memory of Frances Smith/died 18th August 1866/ Marian Ellen Smith/death 24th July 1869/age 57 years"

Plot Sec 2, Grave 219, Toxteth Cemetery, Liverpool, UK