Biography of Fanny SMITH
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Biography of Fanny SMITH
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Fanny Smith was born in Shoreham, Kent early in 1847 and was one of the eleven children of James and Mary Ann Smith.
The census of 1851 shows the family living in Romney Street in Shoreham as does the census of 1861. Fanny gave birth to son Henry William on 28 October 1864. The birth registration does not record the name of the father.
On 23 July 1866 Fanny married Kipps Baldwin in the Wesleyan Chapel in Sevenoaks. Daughter Elizabeth followed around 1867. The census of 1871 shows that she and her family were living in Whitehill Cottage, just two doors away from her parents in Romney Street and that her brother Thomas was lodging with her. By the year 2020, Whitehill Cottage was estimated to be worth over £1 million, something the poor agricultural labourers living there in 1871 would not be able to comprehend.
Daughter Mary Ann was born in Shoreham around 1871 and Frances J around 1873. The family had moved to her husbands home village of Eynesford by the time Annie was born around 1877 and son Thomas Kipps around 1879. The census of 1881 records the family as living in High Street in Eynsford and Kipps now working as a hay cutter and thatcher.
Fanny died of exhaustion after childbirth on 29 November 1881. Her brother Thomas was with when she passed away. Her death was recorded in the Dartford registration district but there is no record of the child. Her husband Kipps remarried in 1884 and had five more children.