Robert born September 1848 and Mary Oxley born January 1850 with children
top row Jessie 1877, William Henry 1873, Ethel 1884, Jane 1874, Catherine 1882
middle row seated Margaret 1881 and Mary Annie 1875
George Oxley 1888 and Robert 1885
| ROBERT Smith born between 1791-1796 married Mary Simpson in November 1817 and had 9 living children that I know of. Robert was a gardener and lived all his life in Hexham. | ||||
| ROBERT Smith born 1824 son of above married Jane Fisher/Whinham November 1844, He lived in Hexham and Warden and was a gardener. | ||||
| ROBERT Smith born 1848 in Old Burn Lane, Hexham, son of above married Mary Oxley Nov 1869, he was 21, she was 19. Robert was C of E and Mary a Roman Catholic. The children were brought up C of E, but just before Mary died she turned back to the Catholic faith. Robert was a gardener like his father and grandfather. Robert and Mary had 12 children in 15 years! Robert worked for over 40 years as head gardener to Canon Cruddas and the Rev George Cruddas of Nether Warden. He was also sexton at Warden church. | ||||
| JOHN Smith born 1856 at first he was a gardener sometime after 1871 he worked at High Shield Quarry nr Hexham and was killed while working there. The report in the Hexham Courant 6 April 1878 say's "On Monday forenoon, a young man, named John Smith, 21 years of age, son of Mr Robert Smith, gardener, Hexham, met with his death while working in High Shield Quarry, near Hexham. Deceased was in the employ of Messrs Rutherford, Forster, and Stobart, fire brick manufacturers at Corbridge, and was engaged in taking the "bearing" off a seam of fire clay. A companion who was working with him left (about a quarter of an hour before deceased was found) to go to a neighbouring cabin in which they sharpen their tools. Whitfield Jackson, a cart-man in the employ of the same firm, found the deceased about ten o'clock, laying covered, with the exception of his head, with soil and stones, and quite dead. It is surmised that owing to the recent hard frost, the clay had fallen sooner than the deceased expected, and that the falling earth had crushed and killed him. He was conveyed to his home in Gilesgate. On Tuesday, an inquest on the body was held before the deputy-coroner, Mr Green, at the North Eastern Hotel, Hexham. the jury returned a verdict of "accidental death" was returned.- the body of the deceased was interred in Hexham Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, the Rev P.W.Clarke, curate, being the officiating clergyman. Deceased was a member of the Sunflower Lodge, No, 1247, of the United Free gardeners, and about 40 members of that Order swelled the ranks of the funeral cortege. Mr F.W.Millwood, P.M., also read the funeral service of the Order." | ||||
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William Henry Smith and daughter Marjorie |
WILLIAM HENRY Smith born December 1872 at Warden married Jane Isabella Foreman (born Woodhorn) in June 1899 in Corbridge Parish Church. He was a gardener and had 5 daughters including my grandmother. William moved his family to Thirston where he worked as a gardener at Thirston House. |
 Jane Isabella Foreman (Jeannie) |
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| JANE Smith born February 1874 married John Ashton in 1908 in Warden Parish Church. John was a mechanic, emigrated to Australia, then became a vicar.They had a daughter Muriel and a son Keith. | ||||
MARY ANNIE Smith born October 1875 married
Thomas Riddell 1899 in Warden Parish Church, she died in South Africa
1924 but is buried at Warden.
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JESSIE Smith born May 1877 in Nether Warden, Hexham. Jessie married Charles Broadhurst August 1903 in Warden parish Church. Jessie was 26 and Charles was 27. Charles was born in Manchester and was a bricklayer, after their marriage Jessie and Charles lived in Manchester and had five daughters.
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Margaret & baby Dorothy |
Margaret (Maggie) was born January 1881 in Nether Warden, Hexham, she married Adam Thompson Nockels in December 1906 in the Parish Church at Warden. Maggie was 24 and Adam was 21. Adam's occupation was a clerk in a shipyard and he sung with the Jesmond Jesters a well known coral society. Maggie and Adam had three daughters, Dorothy who died young and Rhoda and Douglas. | |||
GEORGE OXLEY Smith was born April 1888 at Nether Warden, Hexham. BRILLIANT NEWS! I have been contacted by George's grandaughter who has given me details on her family. George married Mary SUMMERSON of Newcastle in 1914 and in 1923 George, his wife Mary and their son emigrated to Australia and settled in Melbourne. |
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ROBERT Smith born August 1885
at Nether Warden, Hexham. Robert was the third son of Robert and Mary
(Oxley) of Woodbine Terrace, Hexham. Robert left a widow Constance
(Lonsdale) and a child, Allen, who was born 1 month before his parents
married. The
birth was not registered until 9 months after he was born. They lived in St. Andrew's Road, Hexham. He was
a member of the Hexham Territorials who were mobilized in August 1914.
He spent a substantial part of the early days of the war on garrison
duties on the Isle of Man and died a matter of weeks before he was due
to go to France. Whilst travelling from the Isle of Man to Catterick
Barracks, Yorkshire, he became seriously ill. He died two weeks later in
Catterick Bridge Hospital of cholecystitis (blockage of the gall
bladder) Robert is buried in St Michael's Churchyard, Warden. Robert
died 2 July 1917.
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Kate with Norman and Olive |
Catherine was born August 1882 in Nether Warden, Hexham. She married James Hawkins who was a chauffeur December 1903 at Warden Parish Church. After their marriage I think they lived in High Warden, Hexham. Kate and James had two children Norman and Olive. |
James Hawkins |
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Ethel Smith with her two young charges.
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Ethel was born January 1884 in Nether Warden, Hexham. She was a Nanny to two little girls and stayed with the family until her retirement. Her employers gave her a beautiful cottage in Crowborough, Sussex to live in for her lifetime. We used to go and visit her when I was a small child, she never married and I think she died about 1956/7. |
Ethel after she retired in her home given to her for life by her employers. |
| JEANNIE ISABELLA Smith was born about 1898 and died at Thirston when she was 9 years old, she was walking down the street and a car backfired and she died of shock. |
| ELSIE ALWYNNE Smith born March 1914 she married Henry Moscrop and died in 2000. |
| MARJORIE Smith born August 1909 |
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L-R Evie Burns aged 18, Irene Pearson, MARJORIE SMITH 16, Lena Oyston 21and CATHY SMITH 19. taken in 1925 at Alnmouth.
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CATHERINE Smith (Cathy) was born February 1906, shortly after this 'photo was taken Cathy drowned. |
 Ethel Smith on right, with Thomas Mackenzie. |
ETHEL MARY Smith was born 4 January 1904 (my 1st grand child, a girl was
born exactly 100 years later) Ethel was born in Corbridge, she married
Thomas Mackenzie in April 1921 at Felton and they had three children.
Ethel had a shop in her front room at West Chevington, the shop sold
everything, while Thomas was a POW she moved to Amble, which is where
they lived when I knew them. I used to spend my holidays with them, Granda would take me to his allotment and to see the horses. I would go to school with Nana, where she was a dinner lady, she also used to look after the chickens at the "big" school and we would collect the eggs from there. I used to "help" her with the baking, she made the nicest cheese scones I have ever tasted. And of course we talked, she would talk about her family, as a child you don't really take it in, but as I got older I started making notes, but of course there are still so many things I would love to ask, but now it is too late.
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 4 generations L-R Jean Mackenzie, Ethel Smith, Pam Wilkins, and Vicki Grundy taken about 1985. |
