THE SMITH FAMILIES of area around Bitton and Stapleton in Gloucestershire, Ipswich in Suffolk, and Bentham in Lancashire The main page for the Smith family has address: http://www.prattens.co.uk/FAMILIES/SMITH/start.html You can find items in this list by using the FIND capability in the EDIT menu above These notes were collected in hurried visits to record offices and libraries, or acquired from other researchers or on-line sources. If you use information from these notes you are strongly recommended to check the information against original sources. XXXX Smith family of Bitton and Stapleton. 1523 John Smith Thomas Smith and John Smith of Bitton and Henry Smith and Richard Smith of Hanham - Ellacombe MSS. 1538 Juliana Smith of Bitton will - Ellacombe MSS. 1617 William Smith Edmund Smith and Mathew Smith - Ellacombe MSS volume 2. 1638 Thomas Smith of Bitton will - Ellacombe MSS. 1660 John Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1662 Christopher Smith Churchwarden Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1663 John Smith Overseer of Poor Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1667 William Smith bap Bitton son of Benjamin Smith. 1668 John Smith Overseer of Poor Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1669 George Smith bap Bitton son of Benjamin Smith. 1672 Benjamin Smith bap Bitton son of Benjamin Smith. 1672 Christopher Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1672 Hester Harding bap Bitton dau of Thomas Harding. 1672 Hester bap Bitton dau of Thomas Harding. 1672 John Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1674 Benjamin Smith father of dau bap Bitton. 1674 James Smith and Anne Smith of Easton - Ellacombe MSS volume 2. 1675 John Smith Churchwarden Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1681 Christopher Smith for Thomas's Overseer of Poor Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1682 William Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1684 Christopher Smith of Bitton will. 1684 William Smith of Bitton will. 1686 Ann Smith of Bitton will. 1691 Thomas Smith junior and miner Mary Smith sp Jos Smith coalminer John Smith senior horsedriver Walter Smith horsedriver etc Kingswood Chase - Ellacombe MSS volume 10 Bristol Library. 1692 John Smith of Oldland Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1694 Christopher Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1694 John Smith Overseer of Poor Upton - Ellacombe MSS. 1698 George Smith of Whittington will. 1700 Mary Smith of Bitton will. 1701 William Smith of Wick and Abson will. 1702 John Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1704 Joanna Smith of Bitton will. 1705 George Smith of Barton Regis Bitton will. 1705 George Smith of Bitton admin mentions wid Ann Smith. 1705 John Smith of Upton Surveyor of Highways Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1705c Elizabeth Smith bap Bitton dau of George and Hester Smith. 1706 John Smith of Upton Bitton will. 1707 John Smith - Ellacombe MSS. 1709 John Smith Overseer of Poor Oldland - Ellacombe MSS. 1710 Christopher Smith Hugh Smith John Smith John Smith junior in Bitton Poll Book - Ellacombe MSS. 1716 Henry Smith and John Smith - Ellacombe MSS volume 2. 1718 Ann Smith of Bitton will. 1718 John Smith of Bitton will. 1719 George Smith and Josiah Smith of Hanham - volume 1 Ellacombe MSS. 1719 Henry Smith, William Smith, George Smith and Joseph Smith on Sir John Newtons Court and Winsbridge Court Hanham - Ellacombe MSS. 1720 Alice Smith of Oldland will. 1721 Christopher Smith of Oldland will. 1721 William Smith of Wick and Abson will. 1723 Dinah Smith bap Bitton dau of Thomas Smith. 1725 Dinah Smith bap Bitton dau of John and Sarah Smith. 1725 George Smith Surveyor of Highways Bitton - volume 9 Ellacombe MSS. 1731 George Smith for his tenant - volume 9 Ellacombe MSS. 1731 Hugo Smith of Bitton admin mentions Dennis Rogers yeoman of Bitton Aaron Strange yeoman of Abson and Richard Roe. 1733 George Smith aged 70 husband of Hester Smith buried at Bitton. 1734 George Smith blacksmith of Bitton will dated 1733 mentions wife Hester Smith, son Henry Smith executor, daus Hester Tipput Mary Fox and Elizabeth Strange, tenement called Kirmycombe? George aged 70 buried 1733, Hester aged 74 buried 1749, Henry aged 70 buried 1770, Sarah his wife aged 56 buried 1769. 1734 Mr John Smith of Oldland Surveyor of Highways Bitton - volume 9 Ellacombe MSS. 1734? John Smith of Wayhouse Bitton will. 1747 Samuel Smith bap Bitton son of Henry Smith. 1748/9 Henry Smith bap Bitton son of Henry Smith. 1749 Hester Smith aged 74 wife of George Smith buried at Bitton. 1750 George Smith bap Bitton son of George Smith. 1750 Hester Smith of Bitton will mentions son Henry Smith daus Hester Tippett Mary Fox and Elizabeth Strange wit Aaron Strange and Harrington Davis. 1757 John Smith of Bitton admin mentions wid Susannah Smith of Bitton John Strong taylor of Bitton and John Child cordwainer of St Philip and St Jacob. 1757 John Smith of Bitton will. 1759 Arthur Smith of Bitton will. 1759 Joseph Smith of Bitton admin mentions dau Hannah Hawse wid of Joseph Hawse coalminer of Bitton and Sam Harding coalminer of Bitton. 1759 Joseph Smith of Bitton will. 1760 Joseph Jefferis of Bitton married at Stapleton to Johanna Smith of Stapleton. 1761 John Smith of Wick and Abson will. 1763 William Smith of Wick and Abson will. 1765 Henry Smith of Bitton will. 1766 Smiths of Oldland - volume 1 Ellacombe MSS. 1771 Henry Smith of Bitton will. 1771 Samuel Smith Overseer of Poor Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1775 John Smith of Pucklechurch will. 1777 Thomas Smith bur Bitton. 1781 George Smith bur 24.2 Bitton. 1781 George Smith bur 3.3 Bitton. 1785 Hannah Smith Mrs of Oldland will mentions dau Sarah wife of William Fudge, son Sampson Smith land of John Smith, grandau Hannah Fudge wife of William Fudge junior, dau Hannah wife of Job Smith, grandson John son of John Harding, wit Thomas Watson James Pallin and Elizabeth Waters. 1785 Hannah Smith of Oldland will. 1786 Samuel Smith of Oldland will. 1788 Samuel Smith Churchwarden Bitton - Ellacombe MSS. 1795 Joseph Smith of Oldland will. 1799 Benjamin Jefferies mar Bitton Jane Smith. 1846 George Smith Bridge Yate Poll Book - Ellacombe MSS. XXXX Smith family of Ipswich. 1806 Percival Podd bap St Mary Tower Ipswich son of Partridge Podd and Letitia Podd nee Smith of St Peters Ipswich. XXXX Smith family of Bentham. 1614 John Smith of Tatham bur Tatham. 1632 Francis Smith bur Tatham. 1635 Jane Smith bap Melling dau of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith of Hornby. 1658 Francis Smith mar Tatham Susanna Geldard.. 1664 Jenneta Smith bap Tatham dau of Francis Smith. 1685 Jenneta Smith mar 21.9 Melling John Marshall. 1705 Francis Smith bur Tatham. 1711 Susanna Smith bur Tatham. 1802 Joseph Smith of Moor Garth Bentham will in Lonsdale to Benjamin Battersby and Joseph Lupton. 1820c Joseph and Martha Smith of Liverpool owned property in Bentham with Edward and Margaret Parker. END