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Date: 1810-1899
History: Catherine Ellis, daughter of James and Mary Ellis of Swinesead, was on 26 March 1798. She married Matthew Smith (b 21 Sept 1788), a draper from Lincoln, at Swineshead on 2 June 1818. She died in January 1832 and was buried at St Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, on 28 January 1832, aged 33. The couple had five children Margaret Ellis Smith (c1819-1843), Mary Jane Smith (1821-after 1891), Joseph Smith (1823-1823), Catherine Fairfax Smith (1827-1832; known as "Faifax" and "Kate") and Matthew George Smith (1828-1899). The year after Catherine's death, Matthew Smith married a widow named Marianna Lyon (nee Brown) at Appleby on 1 May 1833. Matthew died in Lincoln on 18 March 1864, aged 75, and Marianna died on 8 May 1867, aged 74. Matthew and Catherine's surviving daughter, Mary Jane Smith, married Benjamin Briggs, a chemist of Louth, at St Botolph's, Lincoln, on 26 November 1846. Benjamin became a farmer and died in 1855, aged 33. Mary Jane married again, at Cawkwell, on 13 January 1858, to a merchant from Glasgow named Robert Macnab. Her date of death is not known, but she was still alive at the time of the 1891 census, when she was living at her brother-in-law's house in Edinburgh. Matthew and Catherine's surviving son, Matthew George Smith, became a maltster, and later a farmer, at Waddington. He married Fanny Wadkin at Brant Broughton on 13 June 1876, and they had five children, Harold Smith, Sydney Ellis Smith, Edward Fairfax Smith, Oliver Smith and Mary Catherine Smith. Matthew George Smith died in Lincoln on 2 June 1889 and by 1901 all his children were living in Edinburgh.
Places:
  • Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/F241032
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
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c1810-1899: diaries belonging to Catherine Smith and her daughter Mary Jane Briggs, corresp and other ephemera
Lincolnshire Archives
MISC DON 1732
See Annual Return 2013