'Smart1'
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Families covered: Smart of Belford, Smart of Trewhitt
| Smart's book identifies the arms of the Smare (or Smerte) family of London & Scotland as "Ar. a chev. between three pheons sa." It mentions a Sir John Smart, Garter king of arms to King Henry VIII (who r. 1509-1547) but Wikipedia ("Garter Principal King of Arms") shows that John Smert was Garter King from 03.04.1450 up to "before 6 July 1478". Wikipedia reports that "The parentage and origins of John Smert are not known". | |||||||||||||||
| Rev. _ Smart of Warwickshire (a temp Henry VIII who r. 1509-1547) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Peter Smart (b 1569, d c1652, Rector of Boden) followed by ... | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Peter Smart of the Hall, Snotterton (Cnaputon) (bur 28.12.1686) | ||||||||||||||
| Smart's book (p111) identifies Peter as ancestor of Christopher Smart, the poet. | |||||||||||||||
| i. | ?? Smart | ||||||||||||||
| a. | ?? Smart presumed intermediary generation | ||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Wikipedia ("Christopher Smart"). | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Peter Smart, later of Hall Place in East Barming, Kent (steward of Fairlawne) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Winifred Griffiths of Radnorshire | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Christopher Smart (b 11.04.1722, d 21.05.1771, poet) | ||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia reports that Chirstopher "was infamous as the pseudonymous midwife "Mrs. Mary Midnight" and widespread accounts of his father-in-law, John Newbery, locking him away in a mental asylum for many years over Smart's supposed religious "mania"." Wikipedia ("John Newbery") identifies that John ("The Father of Children's Literature") as step-father rather than father of ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. (1752) Anna Maria Carman (dau of William Carman by Jordan Mary) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Elizabeth Anne Smart (b 27.10.1754, dsp 06.05.1841, noveliust & poet) | ||||||||||||||
| Some details from Wikipedia ("Elizabeth Anne Le Noir"). | |||||||||||||||
| m. (1795) John Baptiste Le Noir, later in Reading (d 1835) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii)+ | other issue - Marianne (b 03.05.1753), another (d young?) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Mary Anne Smart (b before 1722) who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Falkiner of Mount Falcon (b 1721, d by 1786) | |||||||||||||||
| (C)+ | other issue - John (b afer 1722?), Margaret (b before 1722) | ||||||||||||||
| Shown in Smart's book as coming after the above Peter of Snotterton, but surely of the same if not an earlier generation as Peter, was ... | |||||||||||||||
| B. | John Smart of Raby, Staindrop (bur 14.04.1669) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Ann Tailor (bur 25.06.1647) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | William Smart of Belford in Bambrugh, Northumberland (bur 14/19.09.1685) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.05.1673) Elizabeth Woodmass of Newlands | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Smart of Belford (bpt 01.09.1674, bur 20.10.1741) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (06.02.1704-5) Ellinor Alder of Belford West Hall (dau of William Alder of Kirknewton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Smart of Belford & Trewhitt (bpt 10.12.1705, d 04.04.1784) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sarah Ayrd (b c1740, bur 04.04.1784) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Smart of Trewhitt House (b 1759) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1785) Dorothy Lynn (dau of Robert Lynn of Mainsforth by Jane Newton) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Lynn Smart of Trewhitt House (b 1791) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Rosamund Longley (dau of John Longley of Angley & sister of (Charles), Archbishop of Canterbury) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Charlotte Gordon of Linden Hall (dau of Hesse Gordon by Marianne, dau of General Johnstone of Overton (sister of Lady Burgoyne of Sutton)) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | John Newton Smart of Llanover Lodge, Barnet (b 1794) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (11.09.1823) Mary Ann Gregory (dau of Rev. Thomas Gregory of Henlow by Mary Anne Prichard) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Sir Robert Smart of Mainsforth (Durham) & Chiswick (b 1796, a 1863, Vice Admiral) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1848) Elizabeth Isabella Sharpe (dau of Benjamin Sharpe of London, sister of Benjamin of Hanwell Park) | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Newton Smart of Goudhurst (Rector of Witersham) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1822) Mary Susan Groombridge (dau/heir of Stephen Groombridge of Goudurst) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Frances Charlotte Josephina De Bernier (dau/heir of Major General _ De Berniere by Elizabeth Longley (sister of Archishop of Canterbury)) | |||||||||||||||
| (v) | Jane Smart | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1805) Alexander Whalley Light (Colonel, son of William Stratton Dundas Light (son of William of Baglake & Broadstock (of the Lytes of Lyte's Carie) by Henrietta (dau/heir of Chevalier Lüders), brother of Governor Sir Henry) | |||||||||||||||
| (vi) | Margaret Bewick Smart | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Cecil Grainger (Vicar of St. Giles, son of Thomas Cecil by Euphemia Bannerman) | |||||||||||||||
| (vii)+ | other issue - Eleanor (b 1789, d 1865), Mary (b 1800) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | William Smart (b 1763) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabella Russell (dau of J. Russell of Heworth) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Elizabeth Smart of Heworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Shadforth (d 1866, General) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Sarah Smart | ||||||||||||||
| m. Foster Charlton (son of William of Lee Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Dorothy Charlton | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Havers of Thelton Hall | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Robert Smart of Hobberlaw (bpt 29.01.1715-6, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frances Burrell (b c1735, d 17.03.1812, sister of Brian Burrell of Broome Park, Sheriff of Northumberland) | |||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Commoners (vol IV, 'Burrell of Broomepark', p637). | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Eleanor Smart (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Pollard of Newcastle & Haltwhistle | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Frances Smart (dsp 12.04.1835) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (18.12.1776) Thomas Compon of Carham then Acton (dsp) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Sarah Smart | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1800?) William Spours of Alnwick | |||||||||||||||
| (D)+ | other issue (d unm) - John, William, Bryan, Robert, Martha | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Grace Smart (bpt 04.05.1707) | ||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Smart's book in a note on p101. | |||||||||||||||
| m. (02.12.1733) Rowland Graham of Glororum | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Eleanor Graham | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Alder of Horncliffe Hall | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Rowland Alder | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Ann, 'Lady Portsmouth' | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Eleanor Alder | ||||||||||||||
| m. Samuel Barker Edmeston (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Grace Alder | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Thorp (Archdeacon of Northumberland) | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Elizabeth Smart probably the Elizabeth who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.07.1738) William Walker of Goldscleugh & Turvelaws (a 1748) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Margaret Smart probably the Margaret who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Robert Simon of Newcastle | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (17.04.1765, separated) John Greenwell (b 1714, d 1774) | |||||||||||||||
| (6)+ | other issue - Thomas (bpt 24.07.1709), John (bpt 17.07.1718, d 30.04.1734), Eleanor | ||||||||||||||
| b. | William Smart (bpt 22.07.1678) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Ferdinando Smart (bpt 17.04.1683) | ||||||||||||||
| (1)+ | issue - son, Thomas (bur 12.07.1731) | ||||||||||||||
| A grandson of Ferdinando was ... | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Smart (bur 30.04.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Toby Smart (bpt 04.08.1644) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Margaret (bur 22.08.1667) | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'Genealogy of the Descendants of the Pritchards' (Rev. Thomas Gregory Smart, 1868, p111+)
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