William Smith

William was born in 1834 in Salterforth.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Aged 7 in 1841
  Aged 16 in 1851, born Salterforth, Lancashire

William's father was Robert Smith and his mother was Mary Walton. He had four brothers and a sister, named Hartley, James, John, Thomas and Betty.  He was the oldest of the six children. He had a half-brother and four half-sisters, named Henry, Mary, Sarah, Hannah and Lucy.