SMITH, Florence-[25]

  General Notes:

Birth Certificate Detail FOR Florence Smith

1880, No. 364 Birth Certificate Detail: for Florence Smith Registration DIstrict BIRMINGHAM, 1880 BIRTH in the Sub-District of ALL SAINTS, Birmingham in the County of Warwick When and where: First March 1880, 8 Bird Lane Name: Florence Sex: Girl Father: Edwin Smith Mother: Emma Louisa Smith formerly Belton Father Occp: Labourer Informant: Edwin Smith, Father, 8 Bird Lane When Registered: Thirteenth April 1880 Registrar: George Shread, Registrar Note: 8 Bird Lane may have been in Kidderminster. No evidence of a Bird Lane found in Birmingham, but it was a new housing development in Kidderminster in the 1870's. If so, this would place them moving from Kidderminster to Birmingham between First March 1880 and 13 April 1880.

Lack of Death Certificate Index

No death record has yet been found in Birmingham and no evidence they moved away from there. Death apparently occurred early 1900's. Indexes checked 1902 to 1996.

Florence married Francis Edgar CARTWRIGHT-[24] [MRIN:18], son of George Dawson CARTWRIGHT-[298] and Emma WIGGIN-[919], on 18 Feb 1899 in Birmingham, Warwickshire (UK). (Francis Edgar CARTWRIGHT-[24] was born on 26 Jan 1875 in Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire (UK) and died before 4 Sep 1918 in Unknown.)

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage Certificate Detail: for Francis Edgar Cartwright and Honoria Florence Smith. BMD index 6d/199 Birmingham Mar qtr 1899

Registration District BIRMINGHAM 1899 Marriage solemnized at THE REGISTER OFFICE in the DISTRICT of BIRMINGHAM in the County of BIRMINGHAM No: 59 When: Eighteenth February 1899 Name of Groom: Frank Edgar Cartwright, 22 years, Bachelor Name of Bride: Honoria Florence Cartwright, 21 years, Spinster Occupation of Groom: Carman Residence of Groom: 77 Lodge Road Birmingham Residence of Bride: 102 Park Road, Birmingham Father of Groom: George Dawson Cartwright, Jeweller Father of Bride: Edwin Smith, Caretaker Married in the Register Office by CERTIFICATE before me John K Cooper, Registrar Signed by Frank Edgar Cartwright and Honoria Florence Smith Witnesses: Beatrice Emma Wharton and George Alfred Green Note that marriage witness Beatrice Emma Wharton is Franks sister Beatrice Emma Cartwright Note that age on marriage cert inconsistent with birth date -- the MC is two years too young