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From: "Mimi's Email Account" <>
Subject: Re: [SMITHSON] British Research - Smithson family
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:02:37 -0400
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Dear Mike, Thinking again about your offer to help, I'll do all the resarch
possible here before you even think about it. I don't want you to lose any
time because of me!
Many thanks to a generous gentleman,
Mary Jane Phillips in New York City
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mimi's Email Account" <>
To: <>; <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SMITHSON] British Research - Smithson family


> Dear Mike,
> Many heartfelt thanks for your message. Ill be very grateful for your
> help. In particular, I'm trying to find out whether my Spencer ancestors
> could possibly have lived around Rochdale in the mid-late 1700s, and
> whether
> they were related to my Smithsons. My Smithsons may have been Quakers at
> that time, and they were Quakers in the mid-1800s.
> My Spencers left England for Massachussetts in 1816, and they became
> Quakers in Massachusetts in the 1830s, before they returned to England (to
> live on a farm they inherited from a Church of England priest).
> More about this later. I don't want to bore you now.
> All they best,
> Mary Jane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Mellor" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [SMITHSON] British Research - Smithson family
>
>
>> Hi
>> I live in Manchester, in easy reach of Rochdale, though I'm abroad at the
>> moment. I'll be happy to see what I can find out when I get home (end
>> May). If you have any more info as you have that would be useful.
>> Best Wishes
>> Mike Mellor
>> ========================================
>> Message Received: Apr 14 2008, 04:48 PM
>> From: "Mimi's Email Account"
>> To:
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [SMITHSON] British Research - Smithson family
>>
>> For Christopher Smithson:
>> I'm doing research on the SMITHSON family from Facit, Rochdale, near
>> Manchester, in northern England in the 1700s and 1800s. My great-great
>> aunt,
>> Emma SPENCER, married Thomas Smithson, who was, I think, a cotton
>> manufacturer or, in any case, in the cotton industry. They lived in
>> Facit.
>> If you have any ANY information on this branch of the famiyl, I'd be
>> grateful for help.
>> Good wishes,
>> Mary Jane Phillips (formerly Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, but I use my maiden
>> name now)
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christopher T. Smithson"
>> To:
>> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 4:36 PM
>> Subject: [SMITHSON] British Research - Smithson family
>>
>>
>>> Hi Everyone --
>>>
>>> Is anyone on this Smithson list doing research on the British Smithson
>>> lines?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Chris Smithson
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