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Smith Project Member ID: 128-BER

Town/s of Interest:
Manchester, Collyhurst, Hollinwood.

Researcher: Bernard Huntingdon
Location: UK
Contact details:
Email: h u n t i n g d o n s [at] b t i n t e r n e t .com
(with SMITH in the subject line)
Or via own website: The Huntington Family History Project
Smith Chat Forums Username:-
Online Office pigeon-hole: 128-ber

Summary of Interests/Message
My ancestor Mary Ann Smith.
born 1850 Collyhurst Manchester.
was the daughter of James Smith,
who was born in Ireland, possibly c1810.

I connected with a family all cousins,
also descended from Mary Ann, and they
had useful things like her exact age,
recorded in her hand on what she called
a "Register" showing her husband and
children's dates of birth, christening and
deaths (although the deaths are partly
done by the eldest daughter).

That enabled me to trace Mary Ann's
birth, and the address she was born at:

Reg District of St George, Manchester.
14 May 1850. Mary Ann (Girl)
Father: James Smith
Mother: Mary Ann Smith
(Formerly Gibbons)
Fathers Occupation: Tailor
Informant & Residence
Mother, of 57 Reaver Street, Collyhurst
Registered on 14 June 1850

1851 Census
HO107 Piece 2230 Folio 12 p.17
53 Reather Street, Manchester.
SMITH
James, Head, M (possibly 40)
Grocer, born: Ireland
Mary Ann, Wife, M 40 b.Norfolk Norwich
John, Son, 9, Manchester
Isabelle, Daur, 5, b.Manchester
James, Son, 3, b.Manchester
Mary Ann, Daur, 11mnths b.Manchester
Plus a house servant (from Bolton)

Her parents Marriage:
Marriages Dec 1841 Manchester 20 591
GIBBON Mary Ann to SMITH James
Certificate shows he was of "full age"
the marriage is recorded as 29 Nov 1841
Both shown as living in Hollinwood at
marriage.

His Father shown as John Smith
(Weaver).
Her father shown as John Gibbons
(Weaver)

Christenings:-
John, Son, b circa.1842
(Christening not found)
Isabelle, Daur, Chr 16 Dec 1845
at Manchester Cathedral
James, Son, Chr 14 Apr 1848
at Manchester Cathedral
Mary Ann, Daur, Chr 16 Jun 1850
at Manchester Cathedral
and according to her 'Register'
she was baptised as RC at St Chads
shortly before she married.

On Mary Anne's Marriage Certificate in
1869, her father is listed as James Smith
(Deceased), Fruiterer, which is the
occupation she listed for herself and in
which she was joined by her husband
John McDonnell, and which they ran at
Smithfield Market into the 1920's
The business was not continued by any
of their 12 children. I identified the couple
in the 1871 Census as:-

1871 Census
RG10; Piece: 4049; Folio: 83; p.71;
29 Nicholson Street, Manchester
John McDansell 21 Head Mar,
Billiard Marker - b. Manchester
Mary A McDansell 19 Wife Mar,
b. Manchester
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