Angeliue or as he was usually referred “Harry” was born on 2nd November 1840, his birth was registered in Debden in Essex. He was the 5th child of six born to Jacob Smith and Charlotte Pool. He was baptised at St John’s parish church in Thaxted, Essex.
Shortly after his birth (on the 1841 census), Harry is living in Wood Green a small hamlet near Saffron Walden in Essex with his parents and 4 older siblings, his father is an agricultural labourer. Soon after his baptism, when Harry was around the age of 3, his father, Jacob, passed away at the age of 43.
In 1851, aged 11 Harry is living at Witham Union Workhouse. https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Witham/], but by 1861 he is back living with his mother, paternal grandmother and two of his siblings, at Duckets Farm, Cutlers Green, near Thaxted, Harry’s occupation is described as a blacksmith.
On 26th October 1863 Harry married Susan Ann Milton Carpenter at St Peters in Stepney, Harry is now a farrier [in the 19th century, a farrier was primarily a blacksmith who specialized in making and fitting horseshoes, as well as caring for horses’ hooves].
When Harry and Susan started their family they were living in Shoreditch at the time of the birth of their first child in 1866. They then moved to Tottenham where they had a further 5 children.
Susan born 1866, Elizabeth Charlotte born 1870, Jessie born 1872, Annie born 1877, Harry born 1878 and George born 1880.
Harry and Charlotte lived in near the High Road in Tottenham for the rest of their lives, Harry’s business must of been very successful as he had at least two furrier business premises and co-owned with his son-in-law Fred Pinchbeck many houses in Tottenham and left a substantial £4,610 (worth approx. £446,830 in 2025 value).
Charlotte died in 1900 and Harry married again in 1902 to Alice Winwood Davis, and 8 years later Harry died aged 69.
He is buried alongside his first wife Susan, in Tottenham Cemetery Prospect Place.
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