This person was created through the import of Les Ancestors.ged on 13 December 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability. Edited 2020 by Maureen Robinson
Thomas was born in 1803, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England [1]
He married Martha Mitchell in Kettlethorpe, Lincoln, England in 1822 [2]
In 1829 Thomas Cotton Smedley was a brick and tile maker. Smedley and Wilson, brick makers [3]
By 1834 Thomas was an 'Insolvent Debtor' (see photo of Announcement) [4]
In 1841 he Married Eliz Joynes (see photo of marriage cert)
1841 Marriage to Elizabeth[5]
On the 1841 Census his occupation was a Brick Maker and he was living in Yorkshire[6]
In 1842 a Bankruptcy Notice was published in the Yorkshire paper (see photo of announcement)[7]
On the 1851 census he was a brick and tile maker and he lived in Mansfied[8]
Thomas was baptised into the Church of LDS in 1851. [9]
Thomas Smedley along with son and daughter in law, Thomas Joynes and Ann Smedley, sailed to the US in 1857 on board The George Washington. They sailed from Liverpool, England on March 28, 1857 and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts April 20, 1857. They were listed as follows: Thos. Smedley 54 Brickmaker Thos. " 19 Tailor Ann Smedley 22 - see photo of passenger list[10]
Still researching for death date and what happened after his arrival in USA
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Cotton Smedley is one of my ancestors but I had to merge with a file already existing on Wiki.
edited by Cheryl (Crooke) Bostrom