John Henry Hodgson Smale (1826 - 1898) GG Grandfather

Born: 26.7.1826, Morrice Town, Plymouth.  (Baptised: Stoke Damerel Church. 3.8.1826)

Parents: William Smale and Ann Stocker.

Married:  24.10.1847 to Mary Ann Waddon at St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth.(9/498). Living Queen St, Plymouth at this time. Mary Ann living Russell Street.

Children:

Mary E, b early 1849 Devonport; d aft 1881

Charlotte Ann, b early 1851 Woolwich; 

Henry Charles Waddon, 1853 Woolwich;

John Edward, b amj 1855 Woolwich; 

Mathew R, b early 1858 Charlton; (may have died 1861)

William Joseph, b Jan 1861 Plumstead. (or William John?)

Blanch Agneta, b jfm 1863, Portsmouth 

Ernest Edmund, b amj 1867 Portsmouth; (b a/m/j/ 2b/354. Died 1889 jfm, Portsea 2b/293.)

1841 Census: Navy Row, Plymouth. Living with parents

1851 Census: 9 John Street, Woolwich. Presumably at sea. Mary Ann, Engineer’s Wife;  Mary Elizabeth, dau, 2; Charlotte Ann baby daughter. 

1861 Census: 13 Somerset Tce, … Road, Plumstead. (Lewisham).  JHH in Royal Navy; Mary A, 36, wife;  Charlotte A, 10; Henry C W, 7; John E, 5; Mary E, 12; Mathew R, 3; William J,3 mo.  

JHH Smale - Record of Service in the Royal Navy

Link to Naval Ships: http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm
HMS Asia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Asia_(1824)
HMS Cumberland: The 13th Cumberland was a 70 gun ship, launched at Chatham in 1842. She weighed 2214 tonnes and carried a crew of 620 men.  In March 1854 she sailed to the Baltic Sea as war with Russia was imminent.  Cumberland was involved in the attack on Bomarsund, Finland in August of that year. The 13th Cumberland ended her career as a training ship and was finally decommissioned in 1889 when she burned at her moorings.

Certificate of appointment to Chief Engineer RN

Certificate of Acceptance to the Scotia Lodge of Masons

1871 Census: Presumably at 352 Commercial Road, Landport? Portsmouth? Have not yet found.

1881 Census: 43 Bloomfield House, Portsmouth.  John HH, m head, Chief Eng, Retd, RN; Mary Ann, wife;  Mary Elizabeth Smale, 32 d/married(?), no occupation; William Joseph, 20, Medical Student; Blanch Agneta, 18, scholar; Ernest Edmund, 14 , scholar;

1891 Census: 1 Simpson Road, P’sea.  JHH Smale, 64, married, Retired Fleet Eng, RN; Mary A, 65;

Charlotte Waddon 63, spinster, companion to sister.

Certificates for Royal Navy between May 1852 and June 1864.

12.5 years at Sea, (boilermaker), broke legs (hearsay), Eng Capt RN. Rank Inspector in Charge of Machinery Afloat.  One of the first Navel Chief Engineer Officers.(Next on list for Vice Admiral, hearsay)

1858 became a Mason, in Barbados.

1862 left Navy, see passing Cert of Qualification.

1874 letters wanting to commute his pension. 

1874 living at 352 Commercial Road, Landport(?), Portsmouth.

Commuted half his pension and set up some sort of mini bank (like a credit union), it fell through.

Bought a school?

Died: 2. 11.1898, Portsea (j/a/s, 2b/290) of Haematuria , 6 months, cystitis 3 months., reported by son WJ Smale, present at the death 29 Clarence Road, Gosport. JHH died at 203 New Road, Buckland Road, Kingston, Portsmouth CB. Retired Flet Engineer RN.

Mary Ann Waddon

Born 1826 Devonport  Bapt: 21.8.1826          

Parents: William Waddon and Elizabeth Gilbert
1841 Census: No record found.

Naval Widow's Pension

1901 Census:    Head of family, St  Stephen's Parish, Portsmouth, aged 74.  Living with sister Charlotte Waddon.

Died: 1906 2b/299 jfm Portsmouth.