Hi Albert, I thought I had better send you an email through the list also in case you did not get my last email regarding the Smith family. We have the same family in our trees so I would really love to hear from you, Thank you, Tamara. > Albert R. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am a new subscriber to the ENG-LAN-BOLTON mailing list and I hereby > introduce myself and my ancestors. This is my second mailing list, > LANCSGEN > being my recent first, and I am also quite inexperienced at family > history > research. Please be patient. > > My name is Albert Raymond SMITH and I live in Welland, Ontario, Canada, > which is located about 20 km from Niagara Falls. > > My father and his parents were from Bolton, Lancashire. They emigrated > to > Canada leaving Liverpool on October 11, 1920. > > My mother was born in Canada. Her parents (father WOOD, mother > RICHARDSON) > and their ancestors are from Scotland, so that is another story. > > My earliest Lancashire (paternal) ancestors that I know about are: > > My Grandfather's Parents, Siblings, Etc. - > *Father: Henry SMITH, born abt 1844, Accrington, died before 1912. 1881 > > residence at 38 Emmanuel Street G.B. > *Mother: Ann BETHELL, born abt 1849, Accrington > Children: > *Mary E. SMITH, born about 1868, Accrington. (Married ? SELKIRK - > children: > Albert, Connie, Nellie) > *Agnes SMITH, born abt 1871, Accrington. > *Betsy Jane SMITH, born abt 1876, Accrington. (Married ? CLARKE) > *William SMITH, born abt 1878, Accrington. (Married Cissie ? - child: > Harold SMITH) > *Henry SMITH, born abt 1880, Bolton. > *Elisa SMITH, born abt 1882. Bolton. (Married ? - child: Lizzie SMITH) > *Albert SMITH (my grandfather), born June 8, 1891, 38 Emmanuel Street, > Great > Bolton, died May 5, 1960, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, (Married Florence > SMITH - more below) > > My Grandmother's Parents, Siblings, Etc. - > *Father: James SMITH, born March 14, 1849, Lostock, died January 10, > 1923, > Bolton. Police Detective Inspector. Residences: 1881 - 75 Peel Street; > > 1890 - 21 Peabody Street; 1891 - 9 Edward Street. > *Mother: Mary PIERCY, born April 20, 1849, Bistre, Flint, Wales, died > November 21, 1919, Bolton > Children: > *William SMITH, born December 9, 1891, Bolton, died March 4, 1940. > (Married > Nellie Loughton? - children: Squire, Albert, Louis). > *Elizabeth Ann SMITH, born April 9, 1873, Bolton, died March 27, 1942. > (Married Walter LOFTUS - children: Annie, Fred). > *James SMITH, born February 12, 1875, Bolton, died August 10 1875, > Bolton. > *James SMITH, born June 3, 1876, Bolton, died April 26, 1916, Persian > Gulf > (WW1). (Married Mary HILTON - children: Albert, James, Lily, Phyllis). > *Mary Ellen SMITH, born November 7, 1877, Bolton, died January 19, 1954. > > (Married William HOWARTH - children: Lily, Ethel). > *Hannah Jane SMITH, born February 2, 1879, Bolton, died October 26, > 1879, > Bolton. > *Alice SMITH, born April 7, 1880, Bolton, died November 13 1880, Bolton. > *stillborn SMITH, born September 18, 1881, Bolton. > *Albert SMITH, born October 12, 1882, Bolton, died July 11, 1905, > Winnipeg, > Manitoba, Canada. > *Lily SMITH, born December 28, 1884, Bolton, died September 11, 1892. > *Herbert SMITH, born April 23, 1886, Bolton, died September 28, 1886, > Bolton. > *Florence SMITH (my grandmother), born August 21, 1887, Bolton, died > January > 22, 1944, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (Married Albert SMITH - more > below). > *Herbert SMITH, born May 22, 1890, Bolton, died December 9, 1971. > (Married > Martha Alice BLOOR - child Geoffrey). > > My Grandparents and their Children: > *Father: Albert SMITH (child of Henry SMITH above). Residence in 1912 - > 5 > Ash Grove. > *Mother: Florence SMITH (child of James SMITH above). Residence in 1912 > - 9 > Edward Street. > (They were married in the Registry Office, Bolton, April 27, 1912. > Witnesses - Jas. SMITH and Betsy Jane CLARKE.) > Children: > *Albert SMITH, born 1912, Bolton, died abt 1914. > *Albert SMITH (my father), born November 13, 1914, at home - 23 Robert > Stanley Street, U.D., South West Bolton, died (heart surgery) November > 21, > 1963, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. > > I would surely appreciate all the information I can get regarding my > ancestors listed here, and their decendents. Some of the above > information > above is "word of mouth" and may be far from accurate - but I have to > start > with what I have. > > Thank you very much to all of you who have had the patience to get to > the > end of this too long message. > > I visited Bolton in 1996 and loved it - everyone sounded just like my > grandparents. > > Regards, > > Albert R. Smith > 133 Lea Crescent > Welland, Ontario L3C 7J7 > Canada > > Voice phone: 905-788-4097 > Fax: 360-234-5391 > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 1204 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message