SMALE - Family Tree

My family tree

Since this was uploaded, we've found some more on the Gasper side.  The person who we've called Florence Violet Gasper was born Florence Gasper Greenslade.  I sent off for her birth certificate and her mother was given Annie.

When Florence died in 1962 she stated that her parents were Thomas Greenslade and Mary Gasper - but was this for respectability and difficult to prove wrong from over 10,000 miles away in England?  (For more information about the Greenslade side, see link on right hand side here)

William Smale (1791 - 1870) 
my ggg grandfather

Born: Stoke Damerel, Plymouth 20.7.1791. (probably Christened: 26.2.1795)

Parents:  John Smale and Phillipa Lobb, m 17.11.1781 Stoke Damerel.

Married:  Ann Stocker,  11.8.1815, a witness at marriage was Edward Stocker

Occupation: Blacksmith

Children:

William Joseph, b 1822, Stoke Damerel, Plymouth; 

JHH, bapt 26.7.1826 Morice Town, Plymouth; (my gg grandfather)

Mathew b 1829, Stoke Damerel;

Phillipa, b 1832 Stoke Damerel;

Joseph Congdon, b 1834, Stoke Damerel. 

Died:  1870 Portsea, Aged 79

1841 Census:  Navy Row*, Plymouth.

William, 50, Smith; Ann, 40, wife.

William, 20; JHH 14; Mathew 12; Phillipa 9; Joseph 7.

1851 Census:  13 Charlton Terrace, Woolwich.

Wm 60, blacksmith d/yard; Ann 53;  
Matthew, son, 21, Shipwright apprentice, D’yd; Phillipa, daughter, 18; Joseph, son, 16, shipwright app, d’yd.

Jane Hancock, step dau, 27, unm, b Stoke Damerel.

1861 Census: 13 Charlton Tce, Charlton.

William 70, superintendent smith; Ann, 63, wife;

Maria Pearce, 55, visitor, annuitant, b Cornwall.

His wife: Ann Stocker

Born: 1798 Kingsand

Parents: Thomas Stocker and Martha Husband 

Died: Pobably died j/a/s/ 1869 Woolwich, 1d/554, aged 71  
Address at death:  13 Charlton Terrace, Charlton.

Witness to death Mary Elizabeth Williams (17 St Mary’s Street, Woolwich).

* Link showing Navy Row, Plymouth (or perhaps more accurately, Keyham: http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/maps/rapkin.jpg

first tree

This is a rudimentary 'til I've learned how to put one in here

William Smale 1791 - ...)
m Ann Stocker (1798 - ...)
in 1815?

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John Henry Hodgson Smale (1826 - 1898)
m Mary Ann Waddon (1825 - 1900?)
in 1847

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William Joseph Smale (1861 - 1920)
m Eliza Morey (1857 - 1934)
in 1883

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John Henry Hodgson Smale (1898 - 1956)
m Violet Florence Gasper (1898 - 1987)
in 1917

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John William Hodgson Smale (1919 - 2006)
m Dorothy May Askham (1922 - 2012)
in 1949

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Jennifer Anne Smale (1951 - ...)

Genealogy - In The Beginning ....

In the beginning, a few years ago, I was shown some old documents which David Carter (second cousin) had in his possession which had come down from his Grandmother (Dorothy), my Grandfather's sister.  

Her mother (my great grandmother, Eliza) had lived with Dorothy after she had become widowed, so I think all these papers must have just been transferred from Eliza's home, down to Dorothy's and eventually on to David.

There were names which we'd never heard of before and a great deal of new information:  the surnames were Waddon, Putt and Stocker, and the documents related to Plymouth and someone being in the Navy.  We weren't aware that the family had ever lives in the Plymouth area, we though they'd come down from either London or the Portsmouth area.

We were intrigued!

These documents were copied and put away.  Then with the opening up of information on the internet (and broadband) I could start to look up - and double check - information given in these documents.  

There were several free and cheap sites to access information and so gradually I got hold of all sorts of details and started building a tree.

Then I came across information which my Grandmother had mentioned before she died in 1987 which I'd jotted down and kept, along with all the other 'memorabilia'.  There was no way of checking the information at the time - and I'm glad I kept it as many of it was borne out when looking up information on the internet.

This included the poem mentioned elsewhere on this blog and info about her early life, her husband, her mother (no mention of any father), her grandmother, and her in-laws, of whom she was very fond.  Other names which popped up included: Gasper and Adams.

With so much information to start with it was not complicated to start to build a good picture of the Smale/Waddon/Stocker/Putt part of the family.  It did help that they all, initially, came from Plymouth before the diaspora when many of them moved to London.

But Gasper side was more of a conundrum.  I could find my grandmother's birth and her mother's marriage (later!). But nothing else.  And only this year, several years later, a relative very kindly looked into this and, to our surprise, found that my grandmother's birth name was not the same as the name she used to get married (or even the name that she told her daughter!).  We found out because, although the marriage certificate was different from her birth certificate, in the margins of the volume where her birth was recorded there was a note saying her new name: