Home    Topics    Memorials    Miscellany    Transcripts    References    Family History    Glossary    Latest    Beeston Blog    About us       Site Search   
SurnamesNames


Created using Legacy
the full-featured professional
genealogy program


arrow arrow
Samuel Smith
(1790-1867)
Amelia Pyemont
(1795-1866)
Thomas Oxley
Ruth
Samuel Smith
(Cir 1821-1875)
Frances Ann Oxley
(Cir 1817-)

Francis Samuel Pyemont Smith
(1845-1906)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
Blanche Mary Oldrini

Francis Samuel Pyemont Smith

  • Born: 23 Nov 1845, Selby, Yorks 3 4 5
  • Baptised: 26 Dec 1845, Campsell, Yorkshire 6
  • Marriage: Blanche Mary Oldrini on 5 Apr 1888 in Beeston Parish Church, Notts 1 2
  • Died: 29 May 1906, Taiping, Perak, Straits Settlements aged 60 5 7
  • Buried: Taiping, Perak, Straits Settlements 5

bullet   Another name for Francis was Francis Samuel Pyemont Pyemont.

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Curate of Whitwick, Leicestershire, at the time of the census in April 1871. 8 He was then living with his parents, siblings, nieces and nephews at the Vivarage, Whitwick. His father was Vicar of the Parish.

• Occupation: acting Chaplain of St John's, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from March 1879, for 8½ months. 9 He was standing in for the Rev. Francis Smith while he went on leave. It is tempting to believe that the two were related.

• Occupation: Chaplain of Perak, Straits Settlement (Malaysia), from about 1890, up to his death there in 1906. 10 His second child was born there in 1893, he and his wife cannot be found in England at the time of the 1891 census and he is not present with his family in 1901, at their home in Woodhall Spa.
His memorial in All Saints Church Cemetery, Taiping, Perak records that he was Chaplain of Peral for 16 years.

• Probate, 8 Dec 1906, Lincoln Probate Registry. 11 His estate was valued at £521; Cyril John WILLIAMS, physician, was appointed Executor.


Francis married Blanche Mary Oldrini, daughter of Thomas John Oldrini and Maria Elizabeth Drage, on 5 Apr 1888 in Beeston Parish Church, Notts.1 2 (Blanche Mary Oldrini was born Q1 1866 in Beeston, Notts 12 13 14 15, baptised on 7 Mar 1866 in Beeston Parish Church, Notts 16 and died Q3 1932 in Islington Registration District 17.)


Sources


1 Notts Family History Society - Marriage Index.

2 FreeBMD, Q2/1888 - Basford RD.

3 1851 Census Enumerators' Schedules, Piece 2084 - Silver Street, Whitwick, Leics - age 5, with parents, scholar at home.

4 1871 Census Enumerators' Schedules, Piece 3252 Folio 24 - The Vicarage, Whitwick, Leics - age 25, with parents.

5 Memorial Inscription, All Saints Church Cemetery, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia - Find A Grave #49728465.

6 International Genealogical Index, Batch C106261 - son of Samuel & Frances Anne.

7 Probate Calendar.

8 1871 Census Enumerators' Schedules, Piece 3252 Folio 24 - The Vicarage, Whitwick, Leics - see father.

9 Jeremy Howat, British Settlers in Argentina - studies in 19th and 20th century emigration, British Settlers in Argentina - studies in 19th and 20th century emigration - an indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there. Records include baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from the Anglican and Scots Presbyterian churches, transcripts from the National Archives in Buenos Aires and London, Argentine census returns and contemporary publications.
http://www.argbrit.org/, St John's, Buenos Aires baptisms (1878-81) <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jnth/StJBapts/bapts1878-81.shtml> Francis Smith went on eight and a half months' leave, leaving St John's in the care of the Rev. Francis Samuel P. Pyemont, acting chaplain. ... home.

10 1901 Census Enumerators' Schedules, based on place of birth of his daughter.

11 Probate Calendar, The Reverend Francis Samuel PYMONT of Woodhall Spa, Lincs, Clerk, died 29 May 1906 at Taiping Perak in the Federated States of Malay. Probate at Lincoln on 8th December 1906 to Cyril John WILLIAMS, physician. Effects £521.

12 1881 Census Enumerators' Schedules, Piece 3331 Folio 88 - age 15.

13 1901 Census Enumerators' Schedules, Piece 3072 Folio 19 - age 33.

14 1911 Census - Household Schedule, Piece 7234 RD132 SD1 ED42 Sched 167 - Devonhurst. Broadlands Road, Highgate, North London - age 42 (!), with second husband & daughter.

15 FreeBMD - Online GRO index, Basford Q1/1866 :7b 134.

16 Notts Family History Society - Baptism Transcription.

17 GRO Index - ancestry.com transcription, Q3/1932 Islington : 1b 179 - age 65.