Friday, November 25, 2016
Water Under the Bridge
It sure looks as if I have abandoned this blog, but not so. A good two years of family crisis and the tempest therein has hacked away at my time, desire and nerves. I shall be posting again soon, not for the readers, of which there are none, but for the researchers as yet unborn that will be viewing the archive.
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I will never comment here.
ReplyDeleteA curious comment, and most excellent; your absence will be much appreciated by all with manners and by those who delight in polite discourse.
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ReplyDeleteCame across you blog when searching for my Smith anestors in London. In 1875 my 2xgg who had by then emigrated to NZ wrote some notes trying to prove they were related to an Edward Smith who had died and left money. He must have been in touch with the lawyer who was handling the estate and had a list of questions he needed to answer. We have his rough notes, which say that his father had an unlce that 'kept a business in Ludgate Hill' and 'my mother and father went to see him about 56 years ago'. This would have been about 1819 when my 3gps married. I have found a George Smith who was a haberdasher at 7 Ludgate Hill in 1818 which may or may not be the one you refer to in your blog. It would seem he went into partnership with John Graham for about 3 years in the 1840s before as you say moving to 32 Ludgate Hill to set up on his own. I am unable to find this person in either the 1841 or 1851 census in the Ludgate Hill area, but you have obviously followed him through to find out he became a grocer. What were your sources?
By the way the Edward Smith of Ludgate Hill who had died, had not died in 1875 when the notes were written, but about 75 years before, leaving his estate to a woman with the proviso that when she died the remaining estate would go to his living next of kin. From what I can remember when I reserched this the next of kin was eventually found in Australia.
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Denise
New Zealand
Gosh, so sorry I had missed your comment! My sources, English Newspapers and various books. You can DM me on Facebook i f you like (not need to be friends on FB) I can sent you file etc. The 7 Ludgate Hill George is the same one: the shawl man—big story on him. I hope this finds you quicker than I found your reply. Apologies. There was that great big case of Edward Smith, ribbon and lace dealer that left a greta amount of money that had not found legible heirs for years! I have the details here - I have worked under the assumption that his brother was the progenitor of my smiths, as Edward the Ribbon baron died with no children. If you are on Facebook DM me, or make a reply to my very latest post and I'l check it soon. Might even post a small note about the Smiths of Ludgate. Cheers!
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