Can anyone help find a birth for my 2nd Great Grandmother Emma Smith. She was married on 9/9/1849 at St George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey. The marriage cert says her father was George Smith a boatbuilder (or similar). In the census' she says she was born in Hull, Yorkshire and her husband's family (John Chapman, his father Thomas) I believe came from the Hull area.
I also have two samplers that I was told came from this branch of the family but you know what family tales are like. "Ann Smith sampler wrought in the eleventh year of her age 8th August 1815" and one from Emma Smith aged 12. Ann's sampler has an embroidery of a windmill with 5 sails not 4. I think that there were 5 sailed windmills in Lincolnshire and Hull. (There is a possiblity that the samplers came from the only other Smiths in my close family - Samuel Smith 1800 and Phoebe Noble who were based in Suffolk)
I found one Emma Smith with father George in the 1841 census but this says George born in London.
Any suggestions or help very welcome.
Ayse
I also have two samplers that I was told came from this branch of the family but you know what family tales are like. "Ann Smith sampler wrought in the eleventh year of her age 8th August 1815" and one from Emma Smith aged 12. Ann's sampler has an embroidery of a windmill with 5 sails not 4. I think that there were 5 sailed windmills in Lincolnshire and Hull. (There is a possiblity that the samplers came from the only other Smiths in my close family - Samuel Smith 1800 and Phoebe Noble who were based in Suffolk)
I found one Emma Smith with father George in the 1841 census but this says George born in London.
Any suggestions or help very welcome.
Ayse
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