A Baker in Broad Street, Ratcliff
Cross
Charles Smith was a Master Baker,
son of German parents from Sobernheim, RPZ, Germany,
where his father was also a master baker.
Three brothers, all bakers and all SCHMIDT left
their home village in 1797 when Napoleon was a threat.
Their parents made them leave for England so they would
not be killed by Napoleon. Charles' father was
one of those three.
Charles Smith
was born in
Middlesex and he married Harriott Wilkins at St.Ann Blackfriars in 1830.
They had their Baker's shop at 26 Broad
Street, Ratcliff Cross and lived there, and several of
their children were born through the 1840s and
1850s.
Charles Smith
and Harriot (nee WILKINS) 's children were:-
Ebenezer
Smith b.1835.
a pedlar and hawker near Fleet Street, later down in SRY
and Kent. d 1916.
David
Smith b
1837. Draper -217-221 City Road, Shoreditch
for over 45 years. Samuel Smith b. 1841
William
Cowper Smith
b. 1843 26 Broad Street, Ratcliff Cross -
(Emigrated to New Zealand as young man and fought in
Maori wars).
Mary
(Polly) Smith
b. 1846 26 Broad St, Ratcliff Cross
John
Josiah Smith b.
1847 26 Broad St, Ratcliff Cross - Confectioner
Hephzibah
Smith b. 1850 26 Broad St, Ratcliff Cross
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