Biography of Annie Louisa SMITH
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Biography of Annie Louisa SMITH
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Annie Louisa Smith was born on 14 July 1884 in the village of Eynsford in Kent and was a daughter in the eleven children of Thomas and Mary Smith and her name and date of birth are recorded on the Family Register that her parents kept.
The 1891 shows Annie living with her parents at 7 High Street in Eynsford.
The census of 1901 shows that Annie had left home and was working as a housemaid in Miss Tibb's private school in Beckenham, Kent. The 1911 census records Annie still as a maid but now working for Charles Dickins, director of Dickins and Jones departmental store at his family home at 52 Putney Hill, Putney in Surrey. That property has since been demolished and the site redeveloped into a large block of flats called College House.
Annie had found her way up to Birmingham as a housemaid by 1913. There she married tram conductor William Edward Pearson in the Registry Ofice on 30 September that year. Her address was given as "Elmwood", Hamstead Hill in Handsworth Warwickshire. Daughter Edith A M was born in 1914, Nora F in 1916 and son William in 1917.
According to a relative, Annie had a sweet shop in Birmingham. Apparently her business was directed towards the trade rather than retail.
According to electoral registers, in 1927 their address was 71 Summer Row in the St.Pauls area of Birmingham. That was still shown as their residence in 1930 but they were actually registered at 149 Balsall Heath Road, Balsall Heath in Birminghm which premises may have been their shop. The 1939 register shows that they then lived at 29 Alleyne Road in Yardley, Birmingham and that their son William was with them.
Annie's husband William passed away in Birmingham in 1952 but Annie survived until 1969.