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Abraham and Rebecca Smith

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Unknown Report 7 Mar 2017 01:05

I would like to thank everyone on this site who has helped me in the past. This time I would like to confirm or write off a family story about my 3 x great grandparents.

I have a marriage certificate dated 2nd August 1835. Abraham Smith and Rebecca Sarah Bradley were married by banns in the parish of St. Mary Lambeth by Chas (can't decipher the rest of his name). Witnesses were Thomas Newell and Maria Bradley. That's the easy bit.

I have an obituary for their daughter Maria Sarah from the Otago Daily Times (Dunedin NZ) dated 18/01/1918 which says she was the granddaughter of Baron Rothschild - her mother having spurned the marriage match her parents had intended for her and preferred to elope with Abraham Smith, her father's coachman. I am mainly having trouble getting my head around the Bradley name. Any help would be much appreciated.

This story is well known in our family as a cousin I had never met until 2 weeks ago asked me if I had heard it.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Jill

K

K Report 7 Mar 2017 06:58

This is the most obvious bapt for Rebecca Sarah Bradley using the name she married under https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWZ5-ZLQ

And witness sister? Maria https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPQ8-2SZ

Kay

Researching:
Anstee/Bucks; Russell/London; Durose; Pease/North Yorks; Kelly/IoM

Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 7 Mar 2017 07:05

Is there another 'Thread' relating, seems familiar...

Chris :)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

(was that article from above?)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19180119.2.61?query=baron Rothschild


(Charles Turner, Curate. Appointed 1829)


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1360739

(found 'other')


(also looks to be another Daughter)

All London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Ancestry)

Mary Ann Bradley
Baptism Jan 1805 St Marylebone, Middlesex Joseph,
Mary

Unknown

Unknown Report 7 Mar 2017 07:23

Hi Chris,

Sorry, just found my previous thread. I should have tagged this onto that. Thanks for pointing that out.

Jill

Unknown

Unknown Report 7 Mar 2017 08:25

Hi K,

Thanks for that. Looks like a good match. Seems like our family scandal is a bit off beam. Never mind, maybe we are workhouse folk after all.

Jill