Joseph Smith ⁵⁷⁵

  General Notes:

Gardener,....need to check this against info showing him running the Rising Sun Inn

  Research Notes:

From Peter Travis family bible, and birth certificate held by Peter Dyson.
Photo of memorial card on commanet shows death 9 Dec 1899 aged 76.
Birthplace from 1881 census.
They ran the Rising Sun Inn in Watergate Methley. Their photos are on the www.commanet.org site

  Noted events in his life were:

• 1851 Census Methley Smith Joseph: Joseph Smith head mar age 27 farm labourer born Wragby, Yorks, Apr 1851, Watergate, Methley, Yorkshire, England. ⁵⁷⁸

• 1861 Census Methley Smith Joseph: Joseph Smith head mar age 38 Gardner and coal miner born Featherstone, Apr 1861, Watergate, Methley, Yorkshire, England.

• 1871 Census Methley Smith Joseph: Joseph Smith head mar aged 48 Gardener born Pontefract, Apr 1871, Rising Sun, Methley, Yorks. ⁵⁷⁹

• 1881 Census Methley Smith: Joseph Smith aged 59, born Featherstone, Innkeeper, 3 Apr 1881, Watergate, Methley, Yorkshire, England. ⁵⁸⁰

• 1891 Census Methley, Travis: Joseph Smith aged 67, b Pontefract Yorkshire, 5 Apr 1891, Methley, Yorkshire, England. ⁵⁸¹

Joseph married Mary White, daughter of Unknown and Elizabeth, about Sep 1847 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England.⁵⁷⁴ (Mary White was born in 1824 in Methley, Yorkshire, England, christened on 18 Jul 1824 in Methley, Yorkshire, England, died on 20 Aug 1885 in Methley, Yorkshire, England ⁵⁸² and was buried on 23 Aug 1885 in Methley, Yorkshire, England.)

  Marriage Notes:

Only marriage that seemed likely on FreeBMD