Husband:
James SMITH (1813-1881)
Wife:
Ann Elizabeth CAPON (1816-1891)
Children:
Marriage:
15 Feb 1843
Independent Chapel, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia1
Name:
James SMITH
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
13 Feb 1813
Baptism:
Occupation (1):
Master Mariner, Seaman on whaling ships, settled in Tasmania2
Occupation (2):
1837 (age 24)
Joined the 'Vansittart' under Capt Prince in 1837, and it took him to Launceston in Tasmania in 1839 where he settled.3
Death:
19 Sep 1881 (age 68)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3
Name:
Ann Elizabeth CAPON
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
29 Nov 1816
Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Possessions:
Affidavit relating to relicts she dispersed of in the 1880s4
Death:
1891 (age 74-75)
Name:
Annie Helen SMITH
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
1843
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia3
Death:
1931 (age 87-88)
Name:
Alice Margaret SMITH
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
1845
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia3
Death:
1943 (age 97-98)
Name:
Louisa Kathleen SMITH
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
1856
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia3
Death:
1909 (age 52-53)
Name:
Ruth Marion SMITH
Sex:
Female
Birth:
1860
Longford, Tasmania, Australia3
Death:
1860 (age 0)
Longford, Tasmania, Australia
Name:
James Cook SMITH
Sex:
Male
Spouse (1):
Spouse (2):
Birth:
1861
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia3
Robson, John, In the Captain Cook Society Journal - Cooks Log Vol.32,no1 (2009), 6.
"James Smith had gone to sea on whaling ships in the 1830s and ended up in Australia thereby missing the subsequent British censuses. He joined Vansittart uinder Captain Prince in 1837 and, by 1839 he had arrived in Launceston, Tasmania where he settled. Smith became master of the Government Buoy Boat on the River Tamar but also worked as an artist. He painted and exhibited in Tasmania and Melbourne where he later moved.
James Smith married Ann Elizabeth Capon on 15 February 1843 at the Independent Chapel in Launceston. She was the daughter of another artist, William Capon. The Smiths had five daughters and one son: Annie Helen (born 1843), Alice Margaret (1845), Louisa Kathleen (1856), James Cook (1861), Ino Edith (1863) and Ruth (1865). Most of the children married......James Smith was an invalid for six years before he died in Melbourne in September 1881.
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Robson, John, In the Captain Cook Society Journal - Cooks Log Vol.32,no1 (2009).
"James Smith had gone to sea on whaling ships in the 1830s and ended up in Australia thereby missing the subsequent British censuses. He joined Vansittart uinder Captain Prince in 1837 and, by 1839 he had arrived in Launceston, Tasmania where he settled. Smith became master of the Government Buoy Boat on the River Tamar but also worked as an artist. He painted and exhibited in Tasmania and Melbourne where he later moved.
James Smith married Ann Elizabeth Capon on 15 February 1843 at the Independent Chapel in Launceston. She was the daughter of another artist, William Capon. The Smiths had five daughters and one son: Annie Helen (born 1843), Alice Margaret (1845), Louisa Kathleen (1856), James Cook (1861), Ino Edith (1863) and Ruth (1865). Most of the children married......James Smith was an invalid for six years before he died in Melbourne in September 1881.
Possessions dispersed. Cit. Date: 12 July 1859.
"I am the widow of the late James Smith commonly called James Cook Smith who was born in London in 1813. That James (Cook) Smith was the son of the late Captain John Smith R.N. That Captain Smith was first cousin of Mrs James Cook wife of the circumnavigator and on Captain Smith's death his relict Mrs Annie Smith kept them till her death and by will, dated 12 July 1859, she passed on these relics to her son Mr James Smith, the husband of the declarant when he was resident of Launceston, Tasmania about June 1866 until his death of 19 September 1881."
Robson, John, April 2010, Endeavour Lines, Vol 54 "The Melbourne Family of James Smith", Captain Cook Society, Australia.