John H. Smith (1841)

John Horace Smith (1841 - 1915) 

Biography
Life 

John Horace Smith was born in Baldock, Hertfordshire, England in 1841. He was the son of John Smith. John Horace grew up in his hometown of Baldock. John married Martha Hagger, the daughter of William Hagger, and the couple had seven children. The family moved to Surrey between 1876 and 1879 where John was a lamp-lighter. In the 1881 census John and his family were living in High Street, Walton-on-Thames. Their neighbours were James Johnson, a labourer aged twenty-eight, and his wife wife Elizabeth with their two daughters Emily and Elizabeth. Living on the other side of the Smith's was William Wigman, fifty-nine year old labourer, with his wife Elizabeth and two sons James and William. John died in 1915 at the age of seventy-four.

Children

John and Martha had seven children: Arthur became a prison-warder, and Alfred became a policeman. Ernest became a grocer and fought in the Boer War. Kate became a housewife and Lucy became a Latter. Nelly was the housekeeper to a wealthy pearl-merchant and later became his mistress. Nothing is known of Berty.
 * Arthur W. Smith (1867) born in Gildersome, York
 * Alfred Smith (1868) born in Baldock, Hertfordshire
 * Berty Smith (1873) born in Baldock, Hertfordshire
 * Ernest G. Smith (1876) born in Baldock, Hertfordshire
 * Lucy J. Smith (1879) born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
 * Kate Smith (1880) born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
 * Nelly Smith