Research in North Staffordshire led us to believe that Smith’s parents, John George Child and Elizabeth Child (nee Parsons), were married in 1806 at St. Margaret’s Church, Wolstanton.
Recent research into Elizabeth’s life shows that the couple were married in the United States of America.
Elizabeth was born in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, in 1780.
American records* show that John and Elizabeth were married in Wiscasset, where John was living at the time, by the Rev Hezekiah Packard on 15 May 1806.
*Wiscasset Town Records
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