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I am at a standstill finding information on finding who he married (her first names were Mary Ann), as there are a lot of Smith marriages, or who his parents were?
I have found him in the census and know that he had 8 daughters, Mary 1823, Sarah Ann 1828, Ann 1831, Nancy 1834, Maria 1838, Susanna 1841, Jane Emma 1846 and Elizabeth (my link) 1849. The girls were baptised in Armley.
If anyone has the girls in their tree I would like to be able to 'marry them off' as I haven't been able to find them after they left their parents.

Regards Kathryn

If you purchase one of the later daughter's birth certs it will give you her mother's maiden name as below

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page

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Births Sep 1845 (>99%)
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Smith Jane Emma Hunslet 23 353

Looking at the birth dates and places of the children and the IGI - I wonder whether this was the couple

CHRISTOPHER SMITH Pedigree
Male Family
Event(s):
Marriages:
Spouse: MARY ANN MICHELL Family
Marriage: 30 JUN 1823 Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

IGI has this one:


Christopher Smith
Spouse: MARY ANN MICHELL
Marriage: 30 JUN 1823 Saint Peter, Leeds

Smith
Father: Christopher , Mother: Mary Anne
Batch Number: C009542

WILLIAM SMITH Christening: 10 APR 1825 Armley, Yorkshire

ANNE SMITH Christening: 16 NOV 1834 Armley, Yorkshire

ESTHER SMITH Christening: 13 SEP 1840 Armley, Yorkshire

SUSAN SMITH Christening: 16 APR 1843 Armley, Yorkshire

JANE EMMA SMITH Christening: 12 OCT 1845 Armley

Thanks

I have just looked on the yorkshire bmd and printed out a possible for Elizabeth's birth. Got her marriage cert out and looked again at her age and think she could have possibly been born in 1850 and not 1849 as she was 26 when she married in february 1876.

In 1871

Name: Jane E Downs
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Christopher
Gender: Female
Where born: Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Civil Parish: Leeds
Ecclesiastical parish: St Barnabas
Town: Hunslet
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Registration district: Hunslet
Sub-registration district: Hunslet
ED, institution, or vessel: 34
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 55
Household Members:
Name Age

Christopher Downs 27
Jane E Downs 25

Marriages Mar 1871 Leeds 9b 464

Downs Christopher
Smith Jane Emma

IGI has:

Christopher Smith

Christening: 06 MAY 1798 Armley, Yorkshire
Parents:
Father: JOHN SMITH
Mother: HANNAH

Elizabeths age is given as 2 and 12 on the relevant census, if she was born in 1850 then I would have thought it would say 1 or even xxmonths.

ps. My wife was 21 when we married and apparently she still is!!

The only info I have is her marriage cert, she married on 29 February 1876, giving her age as 26.

Your wife has the right idea, it's how old you feel and not how old you are that matters.