{"id":9187,"date":"2023-04-29T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=9187"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T05:52:00","slug":"george-smith-and-sarah-emma-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=9187","title":{"rendered":"George Smith and Sarah Emma Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Smith<\/strong> was born in 1806 in Towersey, Oxfordshire, England. He was baptised on 7 June 1806, the son of William Smith (1780-1867) and Sarah West (1776-1856).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Holy Trinity, Bledlow<\/p><\/div>\n

George was married at the age of 19 by banns to Sarah Emma Wheeler<\/strong> on 4 October 1825 at nearby Bledlow, Buckinghamshire. Witnesses to the marriage were William Smith, his father, and John Badger and William Fryday.<\/p>\n

Sarah Wheeler was 9 years older than George, born in 1797 and baptised at Bledlow to parents William and Mary Wheeler.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah’s father William Wheeler was listed as a labourer of Bledlow in the 1798 (Buckinghamshire Posse Comitatas<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Bledlow baptism register<\/a> has been transcribed but was heavily damaged, but her parents names can be made out on the page.<\/p>\n

Sarah had previously had an illegimate child James who was baptised as the son of Sarah Wheeler of Bledlow, spinster in 1822. Sadly he only lived for two weeks.<\/p>\n

Bledlow and Towersey, although in different counties, are only three miles walk apart.<\/p>\n

After their marriage in 1825, George and Sarah Smith had five children together baptised at Towersey, Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n

George was a farmer in Towersey, <\/span>\u00a0a parish in the district of Thame and county of Buckingham; 1\u00be mile east of Thame, In 1870 it had a population of 449 people and 100 houses. There were two dissenting chapels, a national school, and an educational charity.<\/p>\n

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  1. Emma<\/strong><\/a> b 1826 Towersey, died 1826 Violet Town, Vic, Australia. Married Richard White in Melbourne. 8 children, including one illegitimate child Esther born at sea on the voyage to Australia in 1848 before her marriage.<\/li>\n
  2. Alfred Emmanuel<\/strong> b 1826 Towersey d 1870 Collingwood. Labourer. Married Jane Brooks. 10 children. Immigrated to Australia with wife and sister Emma in 1848 aboard the ‘Mahomed Shah’.<\/li>\n
  3. William Henry<\/strong> b 1828 Towersey d 1896 Oxford. Marr Mary Green. 9 children.<\/li>\n
  4. George<\/strong> b 1830<\/li>\n
  5. John<\/strong> b 1832 & d 1835 Towersey<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first two children, Emma and Alfred, were baptised on the same day on 8 January 1826, so they may be twins.<\/p>\n

    Sarah Smith, nee Wheeler, was buried on 16 April 1834 at St Catherines, Towersey. The burial register gave her age as 34.<\/p>\n

    It is unknown where and when her husband George Smith died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    George Smith was born in 1806 in Towersey, Oxfordshire, England. He was baptised on 7 June 1806, the son of William Smith (1780-1867) and Sarah West (1776-1856). George was married at the age of 19 by banns to Sarah Emma … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9187\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}