Smiths of Lancashire

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See also Smiths of Colonial Virginia. These pages were created to aid in research of the evidence concerning Lawrence Smith: the Lawrence baptized in Lancashire in 1629 is believed to be the same Lawrence who first appears in Colonial Virginia records in the list of headrights redeemed by Augustine Warner in 1652. The mother of Lawrence (baptized 1629 in Lancashire) is believed to be Elizabeth Towneley, sister-in-law of Augustine Warner (who married Mary Towneley).

Lancashire

Locations

Colne: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Pendle/Colne/index.html

St Peter's, Burnley Parish: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Burnley/Burnley/stpeter/index.html

Stonirakes, Burnley Parish

Parish Registers

Baptisms:

• For Smith-1217: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581865f6e93790ec8b59a829 : viewed 30 Dec 2019) baptism Lawrence Smithe 29 Mar 1629, son of Christopher Smithe.^[1]
• For Mary Smith, daughter of Lawrence Smith of Botten: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58186605e93790ec8b59bd28 : viewed 2 Jan 2020) baptism Mary Smith 16 May 1652^[2]
• For Mary Smith, daughter of Lawrence Smith of Burnley: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58186606e93790ec8b59bd98 : viewed 1 Jan 2020) baptism Mary Smith 24 Oct 1652^[3]

Married

• Lawrence Smith m Mary Hitchon: Burnley : St Peter : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5cde7260f493fddca08636e5 : viewed 30 Dec 2019) marriage Lawrence Smith to Mary Hitchon 28 Sep 1651^[4]

Arms

Lawrence jr's granddaughter Mildred, daughter of his son Edmund Smith, married David Jameson, and the Jameson arms impaling Smith are found on her tomb at Temple Farm (See Jameson arms). The Smith arms are the same as Smith of Tottne, Devonshire. (lost what source this was from)

Sources

1. ↑ For Smith-1217: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581865f6e93790ec8b59a829 : viewed 30 Dec 2019) baptism Lawrence Smithe 29 Mar 1629, son of Christopher Smithe.
2. ↑ For Mary Smith, daughter of Lawrence Smith of Botten: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58186605e93790ec8b59bd28 : viewed 2 Jan 2020) baptism Mary Smith 16 May 1652
3. ↑ For Mary Smith, daughter of Lawrence Smith of Burnley: Burnley : St Peter : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58186606e93790ec8b59bd98 : viewed 1 Jan 2020) baptism Mary Smith 24 Oct 1652
4. ↑ Lawrence Smith m Mary Hitchon: Burnley : St Peter : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5cde7260f493fddca08636e5 : viewed 30 Dec 2019) marriage Lawrence Smith to Mary Hitchon 28 Sep 1651

For Lawrence Smith (sources from his profile as of 4 January 2020):

• Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume IV, page 207 TOWNELEY 15.ii.a.
  • Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, IV:204-207 TOWNELEY.
• Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume V, pages 178-181 TOWNELEY.
  • Richardson, Royal Ancestry, TOWNELEY 19.ii.a.
• Jamestowne Society: Smith, Lawrence - A7305; born 1629, died 1700, Gloucester Co.: 1691-92 (Burgess). accessed 3 December 2019
• Nell Marion Nugent. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts Volume 1, page 264.
• Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy, "The Townleys and Warners of Virginia and Their English Connections", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Jul., 1973 : Virginia Historical Society), pp. 319-367. JSTOR article, accessed 30 December 2019.
• This online tree (page 184, Historical Southern Families Vol XVII)
• "Historical Southern Families", Vol XVII, page 184 (continuing on page 185), posted by "Smith Official DNA and One Name Study" (online tree)
• The Virginia Genealogist, volume 41, pages 166, 168-9
• Ancestors and Descendants of Smiths by Linda G. Cheek, 1987. ISBN 0-89308-622-3. Page 143
• "Smith Official DNA and One Name Study" (online tree), entry for Lawrence Smith (accessed 1 Jan. 2019), citing (for sons) William and Mary Quarterly Vol 9 #1.
• full text copy of Tyler's Virginia Biography, accessed 3 January 2020)
• "Smith Official DNA and One Name Study" (online tree), entry for son Lawrence Smith(accessed 2 Jan. 2019)
• Historical Southern Families Volume XVII, page 183
• Find A Grave: Memorial #58965935 for Lawrence Smith (no sources/tombstone photo)

Sources to be Explored

The following sources are also from the profile of Smith-1217 as of 4 Jan. 2020:

• My Southern Family (online tree): Lawrence Smith (accessed 2 Jan. 2020), citing "Resources": [S551] [S602] [S1074] [S1205] [S1650] [S1956].
  • S551: The VA Genealogist, Vol. 41, 1997, #3.
  • S602: Karen Bosze, 2/98 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/karon_bosze/knorris.htm One ref. used "A History of Two VA Fam Transplanted from County Kent, ENG" by Dr. and Mrs. William Carter Stubbs. (The link was captured by archive.org, accessed 3 Jan. 2020; I did not see anything relevant to the Smiths.)
  • S1074: LDS: Individual Record FamilySearchr Ancestral File™ v4.19 Ann REYNOLDS (AFN: 21R6-8P)
  • S1205: LDS AF, March, 1994, AFN: 9JZM-NG states 1 other spouse Wm. & Mary Quarterly, v. 1, 2nd ser, p. 151: "Nicholas Battaile, b. 1701, son of Col. John Battaile, Sr. (d. [illeg.] and Elizabeth, dau. of Maj.Lawrence Smith, and sister of Sarah Smith, the wife of the first John Taliaferro."; Va. Magazine of History & Biography, Vol. 41, Apr., Jul., Oct., 1933: Genealogies of Va. Families from the Va. mag. of Hist. and Biog. Vol. V., Gen. Publ. Co., Inc. 1981, Baltimore; Janet Weston on Fido 8/16/94 cites (re Taliaferro ) Va. Mag. of Hist. & Biog., v77; various volumes of the Wm. & Mary College Qrtrly; Records of Colonial Gloucester co., VA. v. 1 & 2 (comp. P. C. Mason, 1946); Lewises, Meriwethers & Their King (Sarah T.L. Anderson, 1938); Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Ga. (Geo. R. Gilmer); "Torrence and Allied Families" by Robert M. Torrence, The Wickersham Press, Philadelphia 1938, p. 305 !The Colonial Gen. Vol. VIII, #3 !Betty A. White, 916 Elizabeth St., Gilmer, Tx. 75644 (903)843-3426, Feb., 1993 !Don Schimpf, 2106 Creekside Ct., Arlington, Tex. 76013, Mar.9, 1993 - gives b d as 1665 and in Aug., 1995 states abt 1660 !Thomas Hill to Laquita Armstrong on Fido 7/29/94 !David R. Zoller, P.O. Box 536, Fall River Mills, Ca. 96028, Sep. 19, 1994 - gives b. as 1661 Information from a book, "Highlights of the Capital Hill Community - Jimmie Harrison Taylor's Research".per EMail Msg 1997: Ron Bewley (RBewley@aol.com)
  • S1650: Fred Preston's pages: http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/quarrybank/194/sfwilliam.htm that lists as sources "The Family Tree" by Mary Preston Gray 1980-1984, "The Preston Genealogy" edited by L. A. Wilson under the direction of William Bowker Preston pub. 1900 and "The Preston Family" compiled by John Mason Brown 1870. ... The Patton story from data supplied by Annie Rhea Bruce from the book "James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists". Quote [from My Southern Family]: "Fred is not a genealogist but he has collected some very good things. I feel the Smith Genealogy is mixed up".
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20061028082341/http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/quarrybank/194/sfwilliam.htm (Francis Smith m Elizabeth Waddy, daughter Susanna married William Preston b 1730, d 1783. Elizabeth Waddy was the daughter of Anthony Waddy and Sarah Parke of New Kent County, Virginia.
• Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock (1892). Conway, Moncure Daniel. Grolier club: Virginia - 290 pages, page 188.
• "Bacon's Rebellion - 1676" by Thomas J. Wertenbaker, Clearfield Co., Inc. & reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD, 1993, 1994, 1998, page 48
  • For more information, see WikiTree's category for Bacon's Rebellion and the sub-category for Loyalists in Bacon's Rebellion.
• Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 3, pg. 36
• William & Mary Magazine, Vol. 1, No.2, page 6
• William & Hennings Statutes VI, page 327.
• Robert M. Smith Family: Information about Major Lawrence Smith.
• Historical Southern Families Volume XVII, page 184</ref>
• Thomas Smith of Fairfax County page 5
• Katherine (____) (Debnam) Grymes and some Relatives page 167
• Who Was Catherine, the wife of Cadwallader Jones of Virginia? page 168
• Towneley Hall Museum (link no longer live, but it was captured by archive.org's WayBack Machine here (accessed 3 December 2019).
• Temple Farm - Some History of York County; William and Mary College Quarterly V.2, No.1, Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project.
• The Virginia Genealogist. Washington, DC: J. F. Dorman, 1957 - 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) vol. 41 (1997), page 163 - 171, Katherine (____) (Debnam) Grymes and some Relatives, by Rudolf Loeser, Concord, Massachusetts. [This paper sorts out the identity of Katherine and her spouses.]
• The Virginia Genealogist. Washington, DC: J. F. Dorman, 1957 - 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Vol 40, pages 3-14, Thomas Smith of Fairfax County, by Henry g. Taliaferro, New York, N.Y.,
• The Virginia Genealogist. Washington, DC: J. F. Dorman, 1957 - 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Vol. 38, page 168, Who Was Catherine, the wife of Cadwallader Jones of Virginia?, by Henry G. Taliaferro, New York, N.Y.
• Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts Vol. 1, p. 264. "Law. Smith" among 50 headrights redeemed on 26 Oct 1652. A Mary Warner appears on the same list; but an Augustine Warner had already transported a Mary Warner in 1638. Note there are no implications as to how recently the headrights had been issued.
• Nugent, ibid, p. 365. Capt. Augustine Warner and Lawrence Smith both patent land in the Mockjack Bay area on the same day, "11 Feb 1657".

See also:

• White, Emma Siggins. The Kinnears and Their Kin (Tiernan-Dart Printing Company, Kansas City, Mo., 1916) page 515, on Archive.org.

Magna Carta Trail

Trail documented by Richardson (Magna Carta Ancestry, IV:204-207 TOWNELEY)

1. Lawrence is the son of Elizabeth (Townley) Smith
2. Elizabeth is the daughter of Lawrence Towneley & Jennet Halstead
3. Lawrence is the son of Lawrence Towneley & Margaret Hartley
4. Lawrence is the son of Lawrence Towneley & Helen Hesketh
5. Lawrence is the son of Henry Towneley
6. Henry is the son of Lawrence Towneley & Joan
7. Lawrence is the son of Isabel (Sherburne) Towneley
8. Isabel is the daughter of Richard Sherburne & Alice Hamerton
9. Richard is the son of Richard Sherburne & Agnes Harington
10. Richard Sherburne is the son of Margaret de Sherburne & her husband Richard de Bailey
11. Margaret is the daughter of Alice (Plumpton) de Sherburne
12. Alice is the daughter of William de Plumpton, Knt. & Christian de Mowbray
13. William is the son of Lucy (de Ros) de Plumpton, Knt.
14. Lucy is the daughter of William de Ros, Knt. & Eustache Fitz Ralph
15. William is the son of William de Ros & Lucy Fitz Peter
16. William is the son of Robert de Ros, surety baron, & Isabel of Scotland