this Statham - Smith - Morley connection is where comes the business of an Obadiah Morley eloping to Switzerland with Emily Ann Statham in 1855 : they were married at the consul's house in Berne on december 15 th
Obadiah died in 1858 and his wife came back to England where she was properly married to - or where she married - George Smith, the son of the reverend George Smith before 1864 of whom she had 7 children
this Obadiah Willans Morley was the eldest brother of our Mary Annie Morley-Horder and this eloping business must have tinted the whole of those double religious families (Horders and Smiths) : it remains in Alice's (Alice Mott Crampin) faint family recollections
