Caroline (Smith) Todd (1854)

Born 1854 in Humbleton, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom

Wife of William Henry Todd — married 1886 in West Haddlesey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Born 1853 Hambleton

Caroline Louisa Smith was born in Hambleton, a village south of York, in 1853, Later this is sometimes mistaken for Humbleton, a very different village in Holderness. ^[1]

Caroline is the daughter of William Thomas Smith a solicitor and his wife Marry Ann.

Child 1861 Hambleton House

In 1861 Caroline is almost 8 years old and has three sisters.They are taught by a governess at home in Hambleton House. They have three servants, on being a serving maid or sewing maid from Shepton or Shipton - the writing is cramped.^[2]

Marriage 1886 Selbw

William Henry Todd married Caroline Louisa Smith probably in West Haddlesey, West Yorkshire 1886. ^[3]

Land Agent 1911 Hedon

George Wilfred Todd is still in school at 17, very unusual in 1911. He is living in luxury with his father William Henry Todd a land agent at Birkholme, north of the small town of Hedon in East Yorkshire. He is almost certainly at Hymers College, a public school with a cadet force and a railway station at Botanic on the same line as Hedon. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑

   freebmd Births Jun 1853

   SMITH Caroline Louisa @@Selby 9c 444
2. ↑ Head Willm Thos Smith 51 solicitor b Hambleton Wife Mary Ann Smith 43 b Wortley Daughter Mary M Smith 13 scholar b Hambleton Daughter Martha E Smith 11 scholar b Hambleton Daughter Caroline L Smith 8 scholar b Hambleton Daughter Elenor Smith 5 b Hambleton Governess Georgiane D Veitch 34 b Horncastle Visitor Mary A Halliwell 11 scholar b Headingley Servant Mayard Handley 18 cook b Cliffe Servant Martha Wright 21 housemaid b Shepton Servant Elizth Hildred 18 serving maid b Thorpe Willoughby
3. ↑

   freebmd Marriages Sep 1886

   Smith Caroline Louisa @@Selby 9c 859

   Todd William Henry @@Selby 9c 859

4. ↑

   1911 Census : Birkholme (Brickholme) Hedon, East Yorkshire

   Head William Henry Todd 56 Land Agent b West Haddlesey

   Wife Caroline Louisa Todd 57 b Hambleton, Yks

   Son George Wilfd Addison Todd 17 schoolboy b Birkholme

   Servant Mhervenissa West 23 cook b Thornton Curtis

   Servant Mary Griffin Pickersgill 23 parlourmaid b do Abbey

   Servant Alice Teale 21 housemaid b Hessle