Progress To Date

Great Grandparent: Martha Smith
- Her Parents: Elisha Smith and Mary Ann Nye
- Her Grandparents: Thomas Smith and Sarah

Mini family Tree (Direct Ancestors)

The family tree to date may be summarised:

Smith Family

Thomas Smith b c 1770
Married c 1795
Sarah b c 1770

Elisha Smith b 1805 bp 14.7.1805
Married 27.10.1836
Mary Ann Nye bp 31.10.1819

Martha Smith b c 1850/1
Married 14.11.1869
James Peryer/Perrier b c 1835/6
d 18.04.1907 (Age 72)

Mary Perrier b 02.12.1869
d 10.02.1949 (Age 79)
Married 13.05.1894
Walter James Collier b 09.06.1862

Leonard Stanley Collier b 30.11.1909 d 9.5.1988
Married 6.06.1936
Phyllis Marjoram Hunt b 6.06.1912 Died 1991

Christine Elizabeth Collier b 26.03.1946
Married 15.10.1966
Colin Bower b 12.01.1944

Link to Family Tree

Martha Smith & Descendants

Summary of research undertaken to date

This is a summary relating to Smiths in West Clandon, West Surrey; Smiths in other parts of the country have been encountered during research into other family names.

Surprisingly, reasonable progress was made in investigating a name like Smith, because the Family lived in the West Clandon area for some years. Having said that, extraordinarily there were two Elisha Smiths born in West Clandon about the same time!

During a visit to West Clandon, we found gravestones in the Parish churchyard but have as yet not been able to link the individual's with other records held.

Birth Marriage & Death Certificates Held
- Births: 1
- Marriages: 1
- Deaths:

Certificates Held - Smith Family

Census Records Obtained
- 1841
- 1851 Elisha & Mary Ann Smith & family
- 1861 Elisha & Mary Smith & family
- 1871 Elisha & Mary Smith & family
- 1881 Martha (Smith) Peryer - Age 30
- 1891
- 1901 Martha (Smith) Peryer - Age 52

Census Records Held

Other Research Undertaken
- IGI
- Parish Records - St Peter & St Paul, West Clandon
- Wills
- Businesses
- Correspondence
- Visits - West Clandon
- Photographs
- Misc Info/Documents

Progress 2004/7

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Progress 2008

Entries from the 1861 and 1871 Censuses have been added.

Progress 2009/10

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Progress 2011

I wrote up a report as part of the Big One! Project:

The Big One! - Smith Family

Progress 2012-19

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Progress 2020

Elisha Smith married Mary Ann Nye in 1836.We knew from the 1861 and 1871 that Mary Ann was born c 1819 in Godalming.

Searches of Ancestry provided more information:

1. Mary Ann Nye bp 31.10.1819 in Godalming
(Parents James Nye Labourer of Bridge Street and Jane)

2.James Nye
married 22.6.1819 in Godalming
Jane Sly

3. 1841 Census
Bridge Street, Godalming

James Nye (50) Ag Lab
Jane Nye (47)
James Nye (19) Ag Lab
John Nye (16) Ag Labn
Henry Nye (11)
Jane Nye (6)
Charlotte Nye (2)
Samuel Walkford (65) Pensioner
Elizabeth Walkford (59)
William Nye (60) Ag Lab

I added the Census entry and updated the individual records inclding Mary Ann Nye:

Mary Ann Nye

While updating my records, I tried again to trace Elisha& Mary in the 1841 Census and found them despite the enumerator mis-spelling Elisha's name:

1841 Census

West Clandon, Surrey

(?)Elijah Smith (30)
Mary Smith (20)
John Smith (3)
Mary Smith (2 months)

All born in County

I updated the Census entries

Things we wish we knew

• Martha Smith's birth certificate 1848/1851
• Who the following were:
  • John and Mary Smith, witnesses at Martha Smith's wedding
  • William John and Esther Smith buried at St Peter & St Paul's, West Clandon
  • Elisha Smith and Mary (Hersey) Smith
  • Fanny Smith who married Thomas Etherington
  • Sarah Smith, widow living with the Etheringtons in 1881
  • Jane (Smith) Burckot c 1848

Colin Bower
21 December 2020

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