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 1838 - 1882 (~ 43 years)
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| Name |
Mary Anne GREGORY |
| Christened |
19 Jul 1838 |
Faversham, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
26 Mar 1882 |
Faversham, Kent, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I2246 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
31 Aug 2013 |
| Father |
Edward GREGORY, c. 13 Dec 1797, Faversham, Kent, England , bur. 19 Apr 1857, Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 59 years) |
| Mother |
Christian MILSTED, c. 26 Jul 1801, Faversham, Kent, England , d. June quarter 1871 2a, 433, Faversham, Kent, England |
| Married |
3 Mar 1821 |
Faversham, Kent, England [2] |
| Family ID |
F503 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Henry SMEED, b. 1835, Faversham, Kent, England , d. Sep Qtr 1907, Faversham, Kent, England (Age 72 years) |
| Married |
6 Jul 1856 |
Faversham, Kent, England [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Emily Susannah SMEED, c. 11 Nov 1857, Faversham, Kent, England , d. Jun Qtr 1938, Blean District, Kent, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
| | 2. Henry Edward SMEED, b. Dec Qtr 1859, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 3. Christianna SMEED, c. 2 Feb 1862, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 4. Jane SMEED, b. 1864, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 5. Florence SMEED, b. 1866, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 6. Charlotte Ann SMEED, b. Mar Qtr. 1868, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 7. Isabel SMEED, b. 1870, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 8. James SMEED, c. 17 Jan 1873, Oare, Kent, England , bur. 25 Jan 1873, Oare, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years) |
| | 9. Clara Elizabeth SMEED, c. 5 Apr 1874, Oare, Kent, England |
| | 10. Percy James SMEED, c. 17 May 1876, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 11. Blanche Emma SMEED, c. 4 Sep 1878, Faversham, Kent, England |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F979 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Mary Anne was the eighth child of Edward and Christian Gregory. She married Henry Smeed, a local baker, on 6 July 1856 at Faversham. The witnesses for their marriage were an interesting choice: Eliza Bridger and Frederick George Streeter who married each other in June of 1858. Frederick George Streeter was Mary Anne's full second cousin through her great-grandparents, Thomas Nutt and Mary Herman. It is unknown if this choice of witnesses was made because of a close relationship with her Streeter cousins or if Mary Anne or Henry were close friends of either Eliza Bridger or Frederick George Streeter. Thomas Nutt, Mary Anne's great-grandfather, did live long enough to actually see his great-daughter born. He died in the January following her christening in July of 1838. Mary Anne's grandfather, John Milsted, was still alive at the time of her birth. But, unfortunately, she never knew either her grandmother Milsted (nee Nutt) or her great-grandmother Nutt (nee Herman).
Immediately after their marriage, Mary Anne and Henry lived at the Quay but moved to West Street by the time their second child was christened in 1862. Altogether, Mary Anne and Henry had at least nine children. There is the possibility that there was one other son as in 1861 a Henry Smeed aged 1 was visiting with Emma Duncan and Christian Gregory. The family was still at 28 West Street in 1881.
On July 29th 1888 Emily Susannah married James Usher, a cooper and took up residence at 28 Fielding Street. Unfortunately, Emily was not to have a long and happy life with James as he died during October of 1890, just 3 months after his second wedding anniversary. Even sadder is the fact that Emily Susannah had been left to face life with one very young child and another on the way without the support of a loving husband. Her last child, also a daughter, was born during April of 1891, about 7 months after the death of James.
By the time of the 1891 census both Emily Susannah Usher and her father, Henry Smeed, were widowed. Emily along with her two daughters, Harriet, born 1889 and Clara, born March 1891, were living with her father and her two youngest siblings at 7 St. John's Road. Percy, then 15, was working as an errand boy at port. Also living with the Smeed family was a boarder named Charles Willett, 25, an ironmonger by trade.
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- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886151, item 1-3, Faversham, 26 Mar 1882.
Age recorded on burial is 43 years, residence at West Street.
- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886148, 1821 entry #245, 3 Mar 1821.
Marriage entry of Edward Gregory, of this parish [Faversham], bachelor and Christiana Milstead, of this parish, spinster who were married in this church [Faversham] by banns on the 3rd day of March 1821. Witnesses were Edward K. Smith and Hart Chapman.
- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886148-1886149, Entry #45, 1856, Faversham, Kent, 6 Jul 1856.
Married July 6, 1856 Henry Smeed, 22, baker, residence at Faversham, father Edward Smeed, labourer, to Mary Ann Gregory, 20, in service, residence at Faversham, father Edward Gregory, dredger. Witnesses: Eliza Bridger and Frederick George Streeter.
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