Born: 4 May 1842, 95 Bishopgate Rd, London 1, 2

Died: Sep 1931, Steyning, Sussex 1

Census: 1851, 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex 3

Census: 1871, 86 Greenwood Rd, Dalston, Hackney, Middlesex 4

Census: 1881, 9 Downs Road, Hackney, London, Middlesex 5

Census: 1891, 12 Leyland Road, Lee, Lewisham, London 6

Census: 1901, Moorside Rd, Sutton, Surrey 7

Married: 19 Sep 1864, Hackney, London, John Arthur Joseph Mack 8, 9

Children:
  • Arthur William Henry Mack, born 1865
  • Rosella Bertha Mack, born 1866
  • Louise Cecilia Mack, born 1868
  • Edward Percy E Mack, born 1870
  • Alice Claire Mack, born 1871
  • Willmot Smerdon Mack, born 1875
  • Cecil Stanley Mack, born 1877
  • Father: William Michael Smerdon

    Mother: Mary Anne Harris

    Notes:

    Interesting this BMD entry - sure this is wrong
    Smerdon	Susan 	Births	Jun 1846	St James Westminster 	1	114
    Mack	Susan 	Deaths	Mar 1891	Norwich 	4b	125	45
    
    Her 1831 will noted these legacies
    To my grandson L.A.K.Leins commonly called Percy £50
    To my grand-daughter Phyllis Holmberg my cluster diamond bracelet & my 13 stone diamond ring
    To Flora Mack wife of my eldest son Arthur my diamond star broach my smaller single stone diamond
    ring my gold watch & long chain and £25
    To my daughter Rosella Bertha Smith £300
    To my daughter Alice Clair Barnard £50
    To my dearest Friend Fanny Prentis £50 & my 6 stone diamond ring
    To my grand-daughter Susie Mack my opal & diamond ring £20
    To my grand-daughter Alice Mack my wristlet watch amethyst pendant & the remainder of my jewelry
    £30 except my Large diamond ring which I give to my oldest son Arthur with remainder of my
    property &  money.
    
    TODO: BMD, but do not know mother
    Mack	Susie Lilian R 	Births	Dec 1909	W. Ham 	4a	99
    have not found Susie Mack

    Sources:

    1. BMD Index
    2. June 1842   Susan Smerdon    at East London    II    page 205
      the page number is hard to read and could possibly be 203 or 263

      Name:	MACK,  Susan
      Registration District: 	Steyning, Sussex
      Year of Registration: 	1931	Jul-Aug-Sep
      Age at death: 	90
      Volume No: 	2B
      Page No: 	303
    3. Certificate Birth: S Smerdon 1842
    4. Registration District East London
      1842 Birth in the sub-district of St Botolph in the City of London
      186 Fourth of May 1842 at No 95 Bishopsgate St, Susan a girl
      Father William Smerdon, Tobacconist and Cigar Manufacturer
      Mother Mary Anne Smerdon formerly Harris - informant of No 95 Bishopsgate St
      Registered Second June 1842
    5. 1851 British Census, 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
    6. 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
      HO107/1505/585/p25
      
      Registration District:Hackney
      Sub District:Hackney
      EnumerationDistrict:25
      Ecclesiastical Parish:Saint Philips Dalston
      
      Civil Parish:Saint Johns Hackney
      Municipal Borough:Tower Hamlets
      
      SMERDON, William	Head	Married	M	44	1807	Cigar Maker & Fundholder	Ashburton Devonshire
      SMERDON, Mary Ann	Wife	Married	F	46	1805					Ashburton Devonshire
      SMERDON, Susan		Daug		F	8	1843	Scholar				London Middlesex
      SMERDON, Mary Ann	Daug		F	5	1846	Scholar				London Middlesex
      HART, Elizabeth		Servant	Unmarr	F	25	1826	House Servant			Whitechapel Middlesex
    7. 1871 British Census, 86 Greenwood Rd, Dalston, Hackney, Middlesex
    8. Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 323; Folio: 176; Page: 38; GSU roll: 818897.
      
      Source Information:
      
      Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line].
      Civil parish:    Hackney St John
      Ecclesiastical parish:    Dalston St Mark
      County/Island:    London
      Country:    England
      
      Registration district: Hackney
      Sub registration district: West Hackney
      ED, institution, or vessel: 17b
      Household schedule number: 171
      
      86 Greenwood Rd, Dalston, Hackney, Middlesex
      
      Arthur Mack 36  Middlesex, England
      Susan Mack 28
      Roselle B Mack 4
      Arthur W Mack 5
      Louisa E Mack 2
      Edward Mack 9 months
      Hannah Waterson 18
    9. 1881 British Census, 9 Downs Road, Hackney, London, Middlesex
    10. Dwelling: 9 Downs Rd
      Census Place: Hackney, London, Middlesex, England
      Source: FHL Film 1341065     PRO Ref RG11    Piece 0304    Folio 79    Page 53
      Household:
                  Marr Age   Sex  Birthplace
      John A. MARK
                  M    46    M    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Head
            Occ: Bank Clerk
      Susannah S. MARK
                  M    38    F    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Wife
      Arthur W. H. MARK
                  U    15    M    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Son
            Occ: Tea Clerk
      Rosie B. MARK
                  U    14    F    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Daur
            Occ: Scholar
      Cecilia MARK
                  U    12    F    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Daur
            Occ: Scholar
      Percy Mc. MARK
                  U    10    M    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Son
            Occ: Scholar
      Alice C. MARK
                  U    9     F    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Daur
            Occ: Scholar
      Willmot MARK
                  U    5     M    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Son
            Occ: Scholar
      Cecil MARK
                  U    4     M    London, Middlesex, England
            Rel: Son
            Occ: Scholar
      Martha REDWOOD
                  U    31    F    Dublin, Ireland
            Rel: Serv
            Occ: Domestic Servant

      Mis-spelt maCk
    11. 1891 British Census, 12 Leyland Road, Lee, Lewisham, London
    12. Dwelling: 12 Leyland Road
      Census Place: Lee, Lewisham, London
      Household:
      Name		Marr Age Sex Rel: Occupation         Birthplace
      John A Mack 	M     54  M  Head Living on own m... London St Johns Wood
      Susy "		M     48  F  Wife                      "    Bishopgate
      Arthur ?. H "   -     25  M  Son  C..aueller           "    Dalston
      Roselle ? "     -     24  F  Dau                       "    Dalston
      Cecilia L "     -     22  F  Dau                       "    Dalston
      Alice C "       -     19  F  Dau                       "    Dalston
      Willmot S "     -     15  F  Son                       "    Dalston
      Cecil S "       -     14  F  Son                       "    Dalston
      Anges R Perkins -     22  F  Ser  Cook Domestic      Surrey Godalming
      Rose A Btyant         18  F  Ser  Housemaid Domestic Kent Runnastead
    13. 1901 British Census, Moorside Rd, Sutton, Surrey
    14. Registration district:	Epsom
      Sub-registration district:	Carshalton
      Civil parish:	Sutton
      Ecclesiastical parish:	Benhilton
      Town:	Sutton
      County/Island:	Surrey
      
      John A MAck	Head	66	Retired Bank Manager	Middlesex
      Susy "		Wife	58				"
      Minnie Mann		20	Domest Servant		Surrey
    15. BMD Marriage Index
    16. Sept 1864    Susan Smerdon    at Hackney    1b    page 630
      Sept 1864    John Arthur Jospeh Mack    at Hackney    1b    page 610 or 630
    17. Certificate Marriage: JAS Mack and S Smerdon 1864
    18. 1864 Marriage solemnized at The Parish Church in the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex
      
      375 Sep 19th 1864
      John Arthur Joseph Mach of full age and a Bachelor.  Cashier of Albert Road. Father John Mack
      a Gentleman
      Susan Smerdon of full age and a Spinster. Living at Graham Road. Father William Smerdon a Gentleman
      
      Married in the Parish Church by Licence by Richard K Coster
      Witnessed by William Smerdon, Emma Smerdon, Mary Ann Smerdon, Eliza Warburg and John A L Banner?
      

    Baptised: 27 Oct 1824, Ashburton, Devon 1

    Died: Dec 1893, Poplar, London 2

    Census: 1851, Ashburton, Devon 3

    Census: 1871, Poplar, London 4

    Census: 1881, Union Rd, Poplar, Middlesex 5

    Occupation: Beer House Keeper, 1881, Poplar, London

    Census: 1891, 172 West Ferry Road, Poplar, London 6

    Married: 28 Aug 1849, Ashburton Parish Church, Devon, John Pope 7, 8

    They may have married in the parish church, but they attended the Independent Chapel in Ashburton,
    and had their three oldest children baptised there

    Children:
  • John Smerdon Pope, born 1849
  • William Pope, born 1851
  • Lydia Jane Pope, born 1860
  • Eliza Ann Pope, born 1860
  • William Henry Pope, born 1865
  • William Henry Pope, born 1867
  • Thomas Smerdon Pope, born 1870
  • Father: Richard Smerdon Smerdon

    Mother: Jane Murch

    Notes:

    Jan Wood says
    She only had one sister - a girl named Sarah Murch SMERDON -  as when they were small, their
    father [Richard SMERDON Junior] deserted his wife Jane &  family and disappeared to Australia.
    
    In any event, his deserted wife moved in with her widowed brother in law John SMERDON and his
    children, and as often happened in these situations they "hooked up" and had two more small
    illegitimate daughters together!   They never married, as she was still married to her errant
    husband.   But also John SMERDON'S dead wife had been Jane's sister!!  and marriage laws did
    not allow a man to marry his dead wife's sister.
    The family moved up to London in the late 1850s.
    They did not move up there alone, as Susanna's sister Sarah Murch Smerdon, who had married an
    Easterbrook in Ashburton, and also attended the Independent Chapel, also moved up to London
    with her husband and family.  Their mother also went with them as their uncle/defacto stepfather
    John Smerdon, the butcher and innkeeper, had died by then.
     In 1861 the 2 couples - the sisters and their POPE and EASTERBROOK husbands -  lived in the
    same building, or next door to each other in Poplar.    John POPE was a factory worker to begin
    with - he eventually became a beerhouse keeper in Mill Wall and died of liver disease in
    his 40s  - perhaps he had spent his time drinking the profits!    He and his wife Susanna Murch
    POPE nee SMERDON had had seven children that we know of, by then.

    Sources:

    1. IGI Ashburton, Devon - C050201
    2. BMD Index
    3. Name:	POPE,  Susannah Smerdon
      Registration District: 	Poplar, London
      Year of Registration: 	1893	Oct-Nov-Dec
      Age at death: 	69
      Volume No: 	1C
      Page No: 	498
    4. 1851 British Census, Ashburton, Devon
    5. HO107/1871/342/p 7
      Civil parish: Ashburton County: Devon
      Registration district: Newton Abbot Sub-registration district: Moreton Hampstead
      ED: 5d
      Address: Belford Cottage
      John Pope	Head	24	Butcher	Devon, Ashbutron
      Susan A Murch Pope Wife	26		ditto
      John Smerdon Pope Son	1		ditto
      William Pope 	  Son	2 MO		ditto
      
      Address: Belford Mills
      Lydia Pope		Head	Widow	54	ditto
      Willm Henry Pope	Son	25	Miller		ditto
      William Gaylor		Serv	22	Miller	ditto
    6. 1871 British Census, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London
    7. RG10/586/112/p 42
      Civil parish: Poplar Ecclesiastical parish: St Luke County: London
      Registration district: Poplar Sub-registration district: Poplar
      ED: 32 Household schedule number: 222
      Address 9 Tooke St
      John Pope 	Head	44	Labourer
      Susan Pope 	Wife	46
      John Pope 	Son	21	Labourer
      Lydia Pope 	Dau	11
      Eliza Pope 	Dau	11
      William Pope 	Son	3
      Thomas Pope 	Son	1
      next entry - same address
      - Smerdon 	MotherInLaw	69
      next entry - same address
      John Easterbrook	Head	49	Labourer
      Sarah Easterbrook	Wife	49
      Edwin Easterbrook	Son	21	Labourer
      Richard Easterbrook	Son	16	Labourer
      William Easterbrook	Son	14	Labourer
      Janes Easterbrook	Son	9	Scholar
      Amelia Easterbrook	Dau	7	Scholar
    8. 1881 British Census, Union Rd, Poplar, Middlesex
    9. RG11/512/135/p 27
      Registration District: Poplar	Sub District: Poplar
      Civil Parish:Poplar
      Address:Union Rd, The Union Beer House, Poplar, Middlesex
      POPE, Susannah	Head	Married	F	56	1825	 Beer House Keeper Ashburton Devon
      POPE, Eliza A	Daug	Single	F	21	1860	 London, London Middlesex
      POPE, William H	Son	Single	M	13	1868	 Scholar London, London Middlesex
      POPE, Thomas S	Son	Single	M	11	1870	 Scholar London, London Middlesex
    10. 1891 British Census, 172 West Ferry Road, Poplar, London
    11. Reg. District:	Poplar	Sub District:	Poplar
      Parish:	Poplar	Enum. District:	 37
      Ecclesiastical District:	Christchurch	City/Municipal Borough:
      Address:	172 West Ferry Road, Poplar, London
      
      POPE, John	Head	Married	 M	41	1850	General Labourer Ashburton Devonshire
      POPE, Jane	Wife	Married	 F	39	1852	 Ashburton Devonshire
      POPE, William Thos	Son	Single	 M	11	1880	 Poplar London
      POPE, Susannah	Daug		 F	8	1883	 Poplar London
      POPE, Eliza	Daug		 F	4	1887	 Poplar London
      POPE, Louisa	Daug		 F	2	1889	 Poplar London
      POPE, Susannah	Mother	Widow	 F	66	1825	 Ashburton Devonshire
      POPE, William Hy	Son	Single	 M	24	1867	General Labourer Poplar London
      MATTHEW, Peter	Lodger	Married	 M	45	1846	Shipwright Co Durham
    12. Parish Register Ashburton
    13. BMD Marriage Index
    14. Pope	John 	Marriages	Sep 1849	Newton Abbot 	10	211
      Smerdon	Susana Murch 	Marriages	Sep 1849	Newton Abbot 	10	211
      Smerdon	Susana Murck 	Marriages	Sep 1849	Newton Abbot 	10	211

    Died: Aug 1774, Ashburton, Devon

    Buried: 17 Aug 1774, Ashburton churchyard

    Married: 19 Dec 1759, Ashburton, Devon, Mary Rowe 1

    Interesting to note that a John ROWE had married an Ann SMERDON at Ashburton parish church in
    1729

    Children:
  • Thomas Smerdon, born 1760
  • Mary Smerdon, bapt. 1765
  • Richard Smerdon, bapt. 1768
  • William Smerdon, bapt. 1770
  • John Smerdon, bapt. 1774
  • Notes:

    Jan Wood records there were 5 children, only one was a girl, of which 2 sons were lost after
    his death.
    Last (son?) was baptised 2 weeks before Thomas died.

    Sources:

    1. Certificate Marriage: Thomas Smerdon and Mary Rowe 1759
    2. No 107
      Thomas Smerdon of [this] Parish Batchelor
      and Mary Rowe of [this] Parish Spinster
      Married in this [church] by [Banns]
      this Nineteenth day of December in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
      and  fifty nine by me Stephen Madg?? [Curator]
      This Marriage was solemnized between us Thomas Smerdon Mary Rowe
      In the presence of Richard Hinsh and Willm Cockey

    Born: Dec 1760, Ashburton, Devon

    Baptised: 1 Jan 1761, Ashburton parish church, Devon 1

    Died: 11 Jun 1831, Ashburton, Devon 1

    Buried: 17 Jun 1831, Ashburton churchyard 2

    Occupation: cordwainer and merchant, Ashburton, Devon

    Married: 18 Apr 1781, Ashburton parish church, Devon, Anne Bennett Weekes 1

    Children:
  • Thomas Smerdon, born 1781
  • Willaim Smerdon, born 1785
  • Mary Smerdon, born 1787
  • Ann Smerdon, born 1790
  • Richard Smerdon, born 1794
  • Lydia Smerdon, born 1796
  • Charlotte Smerdon, born 1799
  • Eliza Smerdon, born 1802
  • Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Mary Rowe

    Notes:

    Thomas and Anne were non-conformist and did not attend the parish church
    Jan Wood says there were 8 children
    The land tax assessments for Ashburton suggest that he occupied a property in Ashburton which
    had belonged to his wife's mother, Mrs Weekes, which may have been part of his wife's marriage
    settlement
    and death details
    His and Ann's gravestones still survive and is next to the gravestone of  Thomas's brother, Richard
    Smerdon  and his wife Sarah.
    Also close to the graves of the POPE family, their married daughter Lydia’s family.
    Details are in the Ashburton parish
    Will proved at Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 23 July 1831 by his executors, his sons Richard
    and Thomas.
    There were 2 codicils (PROB 11/1788 at National Archives)
    Occupation was a Cordwainer, according to his will, by his son Thomas second marriage cert says
    he was a merchant.

    Source: 3

    Sources:

    1. Parish Register Ashburton
    2. married by banns by the Reverend Servington Savery
      witnesses Thomas Hamlyn and Richard Ferris
    3. Ashburton Church grave, St Andrews
    4. Gavestone reads...
      Sacred to the memory of
      Thomas Smerdon
      who departed this life
      the 11th day of June 1831
      aged 70 years
      Also Ann Bennet Smerdon
      Wife of the above died
      9th May 1834
      Aged 72 years
    5. IGI Ashburton, Devon - C050201
    6. sons birth

    Born: 9 Sep 1781

    Baptised: 20 Sep 1781, Ashburton Independent Chapel, Devon 1

    Died: 9 Apr 1860, 31 Assembly Row, Mile End

    Buried: 14 Apr 1860, Holy Trinity, Mile End Old Town

    Census: 1841, Gloucester Terrace, Stepney, Mile End Old Town 2

    Census: 1851, 41 New Rd, Stepney, Middlesex 3

    Occupation: Customs and Excise officer, From to 1851, Devon and then London

    Married 1: 24 Nov 1805, Ashburton, Devon, Susanna Ireland 4, 5

    Jan Wood - there were 6 children
    ? Ireland Smerdon died young in Ashburton and is buried there
    Last child (a 2nd daughter) was born in Mile End Old Town, London.
    Family had moved to London in 1818-20

    Children:
  • Thomas Smerdon, born 1806
  • William Michael Smerdon, born 1807
  • Richard Smerdon, born 1812
  • John Ireland Smerdon, bapt. 1814
  • Ann Bennett Smerdon, born 1818
  • Elizabeth Smerdon, born 1820
  • Married 2: Dec 1846, London, Sarah Mugford 6

    marriage register entry is in the London Banns and Marriages database.
    Jan Wood has the 1841 census showing her in Ashburton with some of Thomas's cousins.
    Thomas SMERDON remarried at the end of 1846 in London. His marriage was to an elderly spinster
    named Sarah MUGFORD who had been born in either Exeter or Ashburton, Devon, sometime between
    1779 and 1786. Thomas SMERDON, a 65 year old widower, clerk in Her Majesty's Customs of 41
    Gloucester Terrace, Stepney, the son of Thomas SMERDON, merchant, was married to 60 year old
    spinster Sarah MUGFORD, of Heavitree, near Exeter, Devon, at the parish church of St. Peter
    upon Cornhill, London, on Christmas Eve 1846.  The ceremony was performed by curate the Reverend
    Thomas GROSE, and the witnesses to the marriage were W.GROVES and Elizabeth GROVES.   Their
    marriage was registered in the last quarter of 1846 in the City of London Registration District
    

    Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Anne Bennett Weekes

    Notes:

    He was born about 5 months after his parents married, and was named after his father and grandfather
    
    
    I have a unexplained note (feb 10) that his parents (Richard SMERDON and Anne) are wrong
    There are the following IGI births for Richard&Ann or Anne
    C050201, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 0916801
    I500017216030 SMERDON, THOMAS  c.27 Jul 1785 of family F31202314 Richard&Anne
    I500017195191 SMERDON, MARY  c.07 Feb 1787 of family F31181056 Richard&Ann
    I500017223413 SMERDON, ANN  c.07 Nov 1788 of family F31209640 Richard&Ann
    I500017216033 SMERDON, THOMAS  c.24 May 1790 of family F31202317 Richard&Ann
    I500017213223 SMERDON, WILLIAM  c.21 Sep 1791 of family F31199557 Richard&Ann
    I500017206828 SMARDON, JOHN  c.13 Mar 1793 of family F31192916 Richard&Anne
    I500017202554 SMERDON, ELIZABETH  c.22 Apr 1795 of family F31188568 Richard&Anne
    I500017231258 SMERDON, RICHARD  c.08 Mar 1797 of family F31218231 Richard&Anne
    I500017216042 SMERDON, THOMAS POPE  c.17 Jul 1798 of family F31202327 Richard&Ann
    I500017222111 SMERDON, SARAH  c.11 Feb 1801 of family F31208469 Richard&Ann
    I500017213229 SMERDON, WILLIAM  c.09 Feb 1803 of family F31199563 Richard&Anne
    So as there is a Thomas Pope b1798, it is unlikely that this Thomas is of the same family.
    
    Jan Wood (July 2011) has more information on his line
    He was a Customs and Excise officer and it is thought that was why they moved
    They were non-conformists at Ashburton Great Meeting Independent Chapel - so births are not recorded
    in Parish Registers
    Death info from Jan Wood.  He may have been buried near his granddaughter Charlotte SMERDON,
    who had died a few month eariler.
    Will was proved on 1 jun 1860 at Principal Probate Registry by this 3 sons executors - Thomas
    SMERDON of Mile End, William SMERDON of Dalston, Hackney, and Richard SMERDON of  Tottenham.
     Value was under £3,000
    Death in National Probate Calendar, 1860
    London, England: Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980, on-line on AncestryLibrary Edition.  Indexed
    from Holy Trinity Mile End Old Town parish church, burial register.
    He was possibly buried near his granddaughter Charlotte SMERDON, who had died a few months earlier
    and had been buried in the same churchyard.
    
    from the 1841 census in Mile End
    Thomas SMERDON, aged 59 and of 'independent' means, was living with his daughters Ann (aged 22)
    and Elizabeth (aged 20) and a female servant in 41 Gloucester Terrace, New Road, in the Upper
    District of Mile End Old Town, the Borough of Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, London.   He wrote
    his will while he was living at the house in Gloucester Terrace, and was described there as
    an officer of Her Majesty's Customs.

    Sources:

    1. Ashburton, Great Meeting: Independent Chapel, register of baptisms
    2. 1841 British Census, Gloucester Terrace, Stepney, Mile End Old Town
    3. Reg. District:	Stepney	Sub District:	Mile End Old Town, Upper
      Parish:	Stepney	Enum. District:
      Ecclesiastical District:		City/Municipal Borough:	Tower Hamlets
      Address:	Gloucester Terrace, Stepney, Mile End Old Town, Upper, Tower Hamlets
      County:	Middlesex
      
      SMERDON, Thos		 M	59	1782		Middlesex
      SMERDON, Ann		 F	22	1819		Middlesex
      SMERDON, Elizh		 F	20	1821		Middlesex
      MIERS, Fanny		 F	23	1818		Middlesex

      Note sure this is correct - re Y to born in Middlesex
    4. 1851 British Census, 41 New Rd, Stepney, Middlesex
    5. Civil Parish: Stepney, Middlesex
      Address: 41 New Rd, Stepney, Middlesex
      
      Thomas Smerdon	Head	70	Custom Clerk	Devon, Ashburton
      Sarah Smerdon	Wife	70			Devon, Ashburton
      Sarah Grover	Nurse	69	Nurse Servant	Berfordshire
      Margaret Macnameer Serv	21	House Servant	Ireland
    6. IGI Ashburton, Devon - M050201
    7. Certificate Marriage: Thomas Smerdon and Susanna Ireland 1805
    8. No 5 Thomas Smerdon of this Parish
      Batchelor and Susanna Ireland of this parish
      Spinster
      Married in the Church by Banns
      this 24th Day of November in the Year One Thousand eight Hundred
      and five By Reverend William Cockey Curate
      This Marriage was solemnized between Us Thomas Smerdon Susanna Ireland
      In the Presence of John Ireland Jos Mudge
    9. BMD Marriage Index
    10. Smerdon	Thomas 	Marriages	Dec 1846	London 	2	189
      Mugford	Sarah 	Marriages	Dec 1846	London 	2	189

    Born: 1806, Ashburton, Devon

    Baptised: 1

    Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Susanna Ireland

    Sources:

    1. Ashburton, Great Meeting: Independent Chapel, register of baptisms

    Born: 1827

    Died: 1860, Hereford 1

    Census: 1841, Park Street, St Catherine, Gloucester 2

    Father: Richard Smerdon

    Mother: Maria

    Notes:

    not found in 1851 census: also could he have married before he died?
    Smerdon	Thomas 	Marriages	Jun 1855	Totnes 	5b	305
    Smerdon	Thomas 	Marriages	Sep 1855	Newton A 	5b	181

    Sources:

    1. BMD Index
    2. Smerdon	Thomas 	Deaths	Mar 1860	Hereford 	6a	335

      how do we know this is him?
    3. 1841 British Census, Park Street, St Catherine, Gloucester
    4. Reg. District:	Gloucester Union	Sub District:	St Nicholas
      Parish:	St Catherine	Enum. District:
      Ecclesiastical District:		City/Municipal Borough:	Gloucester
      Address:	Park Street, St Catherine, Gloucester
      County:	Gloucestershire
      
      SMERDON, Richard		 M	45	1796
      SMERDON, Maria		 F	35	1806		Gloucestershire
      SMERDON, Richard		 M	15	1826
      SMERDON, Thomas		 M	14	1827		Gloucestershire
      SMERDON, Eliza		 F	10	1831		Gloucestershire

    Born: 13 Aug 1785

    Baptised: 25 Aug 1785, Ashburton Independent Chapel, Devon 1

    Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Anne Bennett Weekes

    Sources:

    1. Ashburton, Great Meeting: Independent Chapel, register of baptisms

    Baptised: 13 Dec 1770, Ashburton parish church, Devon 1

    Buried: 15 Aug 1776, Ashburton parish church, Devon 1

    Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Mary Rowe

    Sources:

    1. Parish Register Ashburton
    2. 'William, son of the widow SMERDON'

    Born: 1807, Ashburton, Devon

    Baptised: 1 Jan 1808, Ashburton, Devon 1

    Died: 14 May 1883, Islington, London 2

    Buried: 17 May 1883, Abney Park Cemetery

    Census: 1841, Bishopsgate Street, St Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex 3

    Occupation: Cigar Maker & Fundholder, 1841, Hackney, London

    Census: 1851, 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex 4

    Census: 1871, 66 Graham Road, St John Hackney, London, Middlesex 5

    Census: 1881, 73 Tollington Park, Islington, Middlesex 6

    Married: 11 May 1837, Saint Helen Bishopsgate, London, Mary Anne Harris 7

    Jan Wood knows they are 1st cousins

    Children:
  • Emma Smerdon
  • Susan Smerdon, born 1842
  • Mary Anne Smerdon, born 1845
  • Father: Thomas Smerdon

    Mother: Susanna Ireland

    Notes:

    Todo: He is in the 1861 census under SMEEDON - but I can not find him!
    
    Jan Wood records from the   Old Bailey website
    In 1834, William is known to have been working in the tobacconists' shop of Jewish cigar-maker
    John WARBURG, who had emigrated to London from Germany.
    
    National Probate Calendar, 1860: In 1860 when his father died and William acted as one of his
    executors, he was still living in Dalston.
    National Probate Calendar, 1883 states he died on 14 May 1883
    The informant of his death was his married daughter Mary Ann BAKER.
    His will was proved on 6 June that year, by his son-in-law John Arthur MACK, principal cashier
    of the National Provincial Bank of England, Bishopsgate Street, in the City of London, and
    his effects were valued at £6,614.16s. 8d.   The value was later resworn at the lower figure
    of £6,557.11s.8d.
    William SMERDON left money in the Chancery Division of the Law Courts to his daughter Susan MACK
    for her life.  He probably left the same to his other daughter Mary Ann BAKER as well, but
    until his will is purchased we won't know what arrangements he made
    Buried in   Abney Park Cemetery Burial Surnames Index, on-line at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
    .   Burial no. 073358, section JO9, Index no. 3802
    In loving Memory
    of
    WILLIAM SMERDON
    OF TOLLINGTON PARK. N.
    WHO DIED MAY THE 14th 1883
    AGED 74 YEARS
    rest in peace
    Also in loving Memory of
    EDWARD PERCY ERNEST,
    Dearly beloved second son of
    ARTHUR and SUSIE MACK and Grandson of the above
    Who entered into rest Februart 5th 1886
    Aged 15, Years and 8 months

    Source: 8

    Source: 9

    Source: 10

    Sources:

    1. IGI Ashburton, Devon - C050201
    2. BMD Index
    3. Smerdon	William 	Deaths	Jun 1883	Islington 	1b	240	75

      died of chronic bronchitis
    4. 1841 British Census, Bishopsgate Street, St Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex
    5. Bishopsgate Street, St Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex
      
      HO107/725/12/29/p53
      
      Registration District:London, East
      Sub District:St Botolph
      Civil Parish:St Botolph Without Bishopsgate
      Municipal Borough:London
      
      GAZAD, James		M	40	1801		Middlesex
      GAZAD, Martha		F	40	1801		Middlesex
      REDMAN, Elizabeth	F	50	1791
      HUGHES, Elenor		F	20	1821		Middlesex
      ARAM, John		M	18	1823
      SMERDON, William	M	33	1808	Tobacconist N
      SMERDON, Mary		F	32	1809		N
      BUSHELL, Emma		F	23	1818		Middlesex
      SINCLAIR, Margaret	F	20	1821		Middlesex
    6. 1851 British Census, 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
    7. 19 Middleton Road, Saint Johns Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
      HO107/1505/585/p25
      
      Registration District:Hackney
      Sub District:Hackney
      EnumerationDistrict:25
      Ecclesiastical Parish:Saint Philips Dalston
      
      Civil Parish:Saint Johns Hackney
      Municipal Borough:Tower Hamlets
      
      SMERDON, William	Head	Married	M	44	1807	Cigar Maker & Fundholder	Ashburton Devonshire
      SMERDON, Mary Ann	Wife	Married	F	46	1805					Ashburton Devonshire
      SMERDON, Susan		Daug		F	8	1843	Scholar				London Middlesex
      SMERDON, Mary Ann	Daug		F	5	1846	Scholar				London Middlesex
      HART, Elizabeth		Servant	Unmarr	F	25	1826	House Servant			Whitechapel Middlesex
    8. 1871 British Census, Graham Road, St John Hackney, London, Middlesex
    9. Graham Road, St John Hackney,London, Middlesex
      RG10/322/90/p8
      
      Registration District:Hackney
      Sub District:Hackney
      EnumerationDistrict:10
      Civil Parish:St John Hackney
      
      SMERDON, William	Head		M	63	1808		Devon
      SMERDON, Mary A		Wife		F	63	1808		Devon
      SMERDON, Mary A		Daug		F	24	1847		London
      SPIGGS, Elizabeth	Servant		F	35	1836		London
    10. 1881 British Census, 73 Tollington Park, Islington, Middlesex
    11. 73 Tollington Park, Islington, Middlesex
      RG11/276/51/p40
      
      Registration District:Islington
      Sub District:Islington
      
      Civil Parish:Islington
      
      SINERDON, William	Head	Married	M	74	1807	        No Occupation	Ashburton Devon
      SINERDON, Mary A	Wife	Married	F	74	1807	        No Occupation	Ashburton Devon
      SINERDON, Mary A	Daug	Single	F	29	1852	        No Occupation	London Middlesex
      SINERDON, Lydia H	Visitor	Widow	F	60	1821	        No Occupation	Tanes Devon
      SINERDON, Kate B	Servant	Single	F	21	1860	        Dom Serv	London Middlesex
    12. IGI Saint Helen Bishopsgate, London - M001421

    13. Batch #: M001421, Sheet #: , Source Call #: 942 B4HA V.31, 0375027

      Source Media Type: Film

      They were both of the parish of St Helen Bishopsgate when they married by banns, and the witnesses
      were William's father Thomas SMERDON, his brother Thomas SMERDON Junior, Mary Ann's brother
      Edward HARRIS, her sister S. E. (Susannah Eddy) HARRIS, and tobacco manufacturer Henry WARBURG.
      
    14. Certificate Marriage: JAS Mack and S Smerdon 1864
    15. 1864 Marriage solemnized at The Parish Church in the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex
      
      375 Sep 19th 1864
      John Arthur Joseph Mach of full age and a Bachelor.  Cashier of Albert Road. Father John Mack
      a Gentleman
      Susan Smerdon of full age and a Spinster. Living at Graham Road. Father William Smerdon a Gentleman
      
      Married in the Parish Church by Licence by Richard K Coster
      Witnessed by William Smerdon, Emma Smerdon, Mary Ann Smerdon, Eliza Warburg and John A L Banner?
      
    16. Court case Oct 1834
    17. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
      London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913
      Reference Number: t18341016-29
      Offence: Theft > stealing from master
      Verdict: Guilty > with recommendation
      Punishment: Imprisonment
      
      1503. JAMES TYE was indicted for stealing, on the 4th of September , 60 cigars, value 5s.; the
      goods of John Warburg , his master .
      JOHN WARBURG . The prisoner was my groom - I came home that evening with my horse, and I saw
      the prisoner's coat hanging over the hogshead where we kept the corn - I felt something bulky
      in the pocket, and told my clerk not to take any notice, but to watch him - when he put his
      coat on to go out, I stopped him, and told him to let me see what he had in his pocket - he
      then pulled out this property - these cigars were in his pocket, and these other were found
      at his lodging.
      WILLIAM MAILLARD (police-constable H 46). I took the prisoner, and have the property.
      WILLIAM SMERDON . I am shopman to the prosecutor. These cigars were found on the prisoner, and
      these at his lodgings.
      Prisoner. It is the first time - I hope you will not be severe with me.
      GUILTY. Aged 21. - Recommended to mercy .
      Confined Three Months .
    18. Court case Mar 1841
    19. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
      London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913
      Reference Number: t18410301-927
      Offence: Theft > stealing from master
      Verdict: Guilty > with recommendation
      Punishment: Imprisonment > no_subcategory
      
      927. GEORGE GORDON was indicted for stealing, on the 10th of February, 14 shercots, value 2s.
      4d.; and 6 cigars, value 1s.; the goods of John Warburg, his master.
      WILLIAM SMERDON . I am in the employ of Mr. John Warburg, a cigar-manufacturer in Mansell-street—the
      prisoner was in his employ as a stripper, and a porter. On the 10th of February I came
      out of the front shop to go into the manufactory—at the end of that there is a coach-house—I
      saw a figure there—I knew no one had any business there at that time, which was about twelve
      o'clock in the day—I went up to see who it was, and found the prisoner—I asked what he wanted—he
      said,
      See original
      "A board"—I said, "You don't want a board, if you did, you would have had it at eight o'clock
      this morning"—he said, "Do you think I came here to steal?"—I said, "I will have a light brought,
      and see"—I had a light, and found in a chaise a parcel of cigars and sheroots mixed together—I
      said, "You see I have not looked in vain"—he said he hoped I would forgive him, as
      I had forgiven him once before—I said I could not forgive every time, I would leave it in the
      hands of Mr. Warburg.
      Cross-examined by MR. PAYNE. Q. What are they worth? A. 3s. 4d.
      JOHN GOOZEE (police-constable K 142.) I was sent for, and took the prisoner—I asked him what
      he was going to do with them—he said he did not take the larger quantity—he took the small
      quantity to smoke.
      (The prisoner received a good character.)
      GUILTY.
      Aged 16.—Recommended to mercy— Confined One Month.