Wiscasset the town where Sir Smith Child’s mother was born

Wiscasset, in Maine, was the town where Sir Smith Child’s mother, Elizabeth Parsons, was born in 1780. Her parents were Timothy Parsons and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Sylvester). She married John George Child, the son of Admiral Smith Child, in Wiscasset, on 15th May 1806. The couple moved to England and made their home at Newfield Hall, Tunstall. Their only son, Smith, who became Sir Smith Child, was born there in 1808.