Husband:
Edward Henry MITTON (1843-1922)
Wife:
Annie Helen SMITH (1843-1931)
Marriage:
1877
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1
Name:
Edward Henry MITTON
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1843
Osmotherley, Yorkshire, UK
Census:
7 Apr 1861 (age 18)
Parsonage, Baildon, Yorkshire, UK2
Occupation:
Commission Agent
Death:
1922 (age 78-79)
Old Colonists Home, Australia
Name:
Annie Helen SMITH
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1843
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia3
Death:
1931 (age 87-88)
Robson, John, April 2010, Endeavour Lines, Vol 54 "The Melbourne Family of James Smith", Captain Cook Society, Australia, 11.
1861 England and Wales census, Parsonage, Baildon, Yorkshire, UK.
1861 UK Census
Place: Parsonage, Baildon, Yorkshire, UK
Address:
Reference:
Enumeration Date: 7 April 1861
Other Info:
Name |
Relation |
Condition |
Sex |
Age |
Occupation |
Where Born |
Infirmity |
Joseph Mitton |
Hd |
M |
M |
53 |
Incumbent of Baildon |
Thornthwaite, Yorks |
|
Caroline Mary Mitton |
Da |
U |
F |
25 |
|
Kirby Malzeard, Yorks |
|
William Mitton |
Sn |
U |
M |
20 |
Banking Clerk |
Osmothersley, Yorks |
|
Edward Henry Mitton |
Sn |
U |
M |
18 |
Merchants Clerk |
Osmothersley, Yorks |
|
Walter Robert Mitton |
Sn |
U |
M |
9 |
Scholar |
Baildon, Yorks |
|
Samuel George Mitton |
Sn |
U |
M |
6 |
Scholar |
Baildon, Yorks |
|
Arnold Mitton |
Sn |
U |
M |
4 |
Scholar |
Baildon, Yorks |
|
Henry Chapman Creamer |
Vst |
U |
M |
9 |
Scholar |
York |
|
Jane Hudson |
Svt |
U |
F |
19 |
Cook |
Baildon, Yorks |
|
Elizabeth Smith |
Svt |
U |
F |
19 |
Housemaid |
Knayton, Yorks |
|
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.