William Smalley and Lydia Thurston
William Smalley (b 1748, m Lydia Thurston 1796 Newton, d 1821 Newton in
the Isle, Cambridgeshire)
Lydia Thurston (b 1744, d 1835)
Lydia Smalley (b1797, m 1817 Thomas
Shaw, d 1835 Cambridgeshire)
William Smalley (b 1799, d 1806)
Mary Smalley (b 1801, d 1819)
James
Smalley (b 1805 Newton,
Cambridgeshire, m Martha Goode 1832
Newton, d 1877 Brunswick,
Vic)
Thomas Henry
Smalley (b 1851 At sea SS Constance, m Emily
Marshall 1876 West
Melb,
Vic, d 1839 Ballarat Vic)
Herbert
Oscar
Smalley (b1878 Brunswick, Vic, m Annie
Tippett 1908 North Fitzror,
Vic,
d 1960 Preston Vic)
Joseph Smalley (b 1809, m Jane
Smith
1834, d 1876 Wisbech)
Sarah Smalley (b 1811, m John
Barton 1829, d 1837)
Robert Smalley (b 1813, d 1837)
A note from M Smalley provided some interesting information on
this family
Sarah Smalley
actually died back in England in 1837 (buried
31/05/1837) around the same time a lot of other Smalleys.
I've always wanted to know what it was that killed them.
The other deaths were as follows:
Her two children
Elizabeth (buried 5/07/1837) and Margaret (buried 31/05/1837)
Her brother Robert
(buried 12/05/1837)
Her sister Lydia's
child William Smalley Shaw (buried 31/05/1837). Lydia had
died in 1835.
Her brother
Joseph's children William (buried 2/06/1837) and
Francis (buried 12/05/1837). Jospeh's wife Jane died a year later
leaving him without a family. He married the farm servant and
started a new family.
I wonder if the
dead are somehow linked to each other or if it was representative of
deaths in the community that year. I read somewhere that a
particularly bad flu went through the UK around that time.
In 1990 we corresponded with
Margaret Ross, whose husband was a
descendant of Sarah Barton (b 1830). Sarah was a daughter of
Sarah Smalley and John Barton.
Sarah
Barton married Robert Anderson at Leverington 30 Nov 1852, and
came to Australia on the Ida 12 July 1853. Sarah Barton was the
daughter of Sarah Smalley and John Barton
I note in the 1841 Census, Joseph Smalley has a wife Sarah, both aged
25, no children, which fits with all of this
William and Lydia's farm was Black Dyke Farm, Newton (Barbara
Owens). For more recent photos link
M Smalley provided the location of Black Dyke Farm. Quoting from
his email
"I notice you're still looking for
Black Dyke Farm. Your best bet is to download Google Earth then
click on the attached placemark. Google Earth has great quality
images of the area, the location is just a paddock now so there is no
building sadly.
In the meantime you can go to Google
Maps (satellite quality only) at
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=52.697692,+0.104972&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=52.700314,0.105057&spn=0.095702,0.431213&t=h&om=1&iwloc=A
For your info, the approximate
GPS location of the location is 52.697692, 0.104972. I think
that's decimal rather than degrees.
I found the location by going to
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ and typing in Newton though technically
the farm is closer to Fitton End".
Newton is close to Wisbech ("Capital of the Fens"), 10 miles south of
The Wash . Just east of Wisbech is labelled marshland on the map. So
Black Dyke is presumably to keep the water at bay.
There is a Yahoo
Group
interested
in
Smalleys
that
came
to Australia.
Notes on Joseph (ex Lawrence Cattermole)
I have a copy of the wedding certificate for his
second marriage in Leverington Parish Church to Sarah Pottinger on 20
Jun 1839, showing him as a widower and both of them resident in Mays'
Lane at the time of marriage. He signed with his mark.
As for censuses, you speculate that Jos
Smalley of Leverington in 1841 may be James' brother Joseph and I
agree. Clearly being about10 years older than his second wife
required some masking. The marriage certificate simply describes
both as 'of full age'. The 1851 census shows him as a farmer of 70
acres in Leverington, age 37, born in Newton with 6 children. He is
still there aged 48 in 1861 and aged 62 in 1871. By 1881, aged 72, he
and Sarah have moved to 89 Havelock Street, Leicester. He died in
Leicester, aged 74, in Q1 1884. This age is a much better fit with
the1809 birth date than the age of 25 shown in 1841. His wife
died, aged 73 at the end of 1892.
Acknowledgements
Lots of good information was received from Roy Smalley, Bruce Tippett,
Lawrence Cattermole, Bette Joseph, Barbara Owens asnd M
Smalley
Thanks to M Smalley for Black Dyke Farm
Research Notes
Genes Reunited checked for William and Lydia
Family search has a small ancestral file
that roughly corresponds to
this webpage. Submitter is Marie Van Straten
LDS FHO checked. No OPC
M Smalley supplied some good information about his sources.
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