Thomas Smith Thomas Smith was born at Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, England 10 July, 1792 (christened 29 July 1792). He was the son of Edward Smith (b ca 1770) and Margaret Unknown. Thomas married 1. Ann Unknown (b 1798) and 2. Elizabeth (Betty) Unknown (m. 1812). Children of Thomas Smith and Elizabeth (Betty) Unknown:
Baptism: 29 July 1792, All Saints, Rainford, Lancashire: Thomas Smith, son of Edward Smith and Margaret; born 10 July 1792. Abode: Bickerstaff; Occupation of father: stonecutter; Register of Baptisms 1765-1812, Page 38, Entry 10 Baptism:
29 Jul 1792 All Saints, Rainford, Lancashire, England RAINFORD, a village, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Prescot parish and district, Lancashire. The village stands on the Ormskirk and St. Helens railway, 1 mile S S E of that railway 's intersection by the Liverpool and Wigan railway, and 4¼ miles N W by N of St. Helens; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under St. Helens. The chapelry comprises 5,803 acres. Real property, £12,623; of which £3,280 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2,333; in 1861, 2,784. Houses, 478. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of new collieries. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. R. Hall, Mount Pleasant, and the Rookery are chief residences. Much of the land is reclaimed morass. Tobacco-pipemaking is largely carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £135.* Patron, the Vicar of Prescot. The church is a plain building, with a belfry. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school for boys, and a national school for girls. The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry. John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) Rainford is a township in the Diocese of Liverpool, West Derby Hundred. This is a large township, having an area of 5,872½ acres, (fn. 1) embracing open country, flat on the north and west and undulating on the south-east. The highest ground, rising to 300 ft. above sea level, is near the village of Crank, a bare exposed spot. In the northern portion of the district there are coal mines; the remainder is agricultural, the principal crops raised being potatoes, oats, wheat, and clover. The soil is clayey. The Sankey or Rainford Brook flows through the whole length of the township from north-west to south-east, on its way towards the Mersey. The geological formation consists mainly of the coal measures, but from Rainford village to the chase in Knowsley Park there is a belt three-quarters of a mile in width of the lower mottled sandstone of the bunter series (new red sandstone), and the pebble beds of the same series are just touched at Kirkby Moss. Formerly the land can have been of comparatively little value, the large area of moss being shown by such names as Reeds Moss, Rainford Moss, and Mossborough; occasional patches of unreclaimed mossland are still met with. About 1720 the northern half was called Chapel end, and the southern, Haysarm end. The village of Rainford is in the former, and the hamlet of Crank in the latter. Rainford Hall (Col. Pilkington, J.P.) is a large modern house on an old site, east of the village. The principal road is that from St. Helens to Ormskirk; it runs alongside the brook, which it crosses before reaching the village. Here it is joined by another road coming from Prescot in the southwest. The London and North-Western Company's line from St. Helens to Ormskirk also runs parallel to the brook, with stations at Crank, Rookery, and Rainford. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's line from Liverpool to Manchester crosses the northern end of the township, and where it passes under the other railway is a station called Rainford Junction. The population in 1901 numbered 3,359 From: 'Townships: Rainford', A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 382-86.
Descent Edward Smith (b ca 1770)~ Margaret Unknown Thomas Smith (b 1792) ~ Elizabeth Unknown Edward Smith (b 1817, Lancashire) ~ Catherine Kirby Henry Smith (b 1856 Liverpool) ~ Mary Alice Bradfield Edward Bradfield Smith (b 1844 Liverpool) ~ Unknown Edward Bradfield Smith (b 1916 Liverpool) ~ Veronica Shiels Living Daughter ~ Kenneth Wayne Handler |