Family History

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Welcome to my Family History site, covering my father's Mott ancestors and my mother's Smith ancestors. On both sides of the family the search has taken me back to the sixteenth century, when parish records began. Sometimes the trail has been difficult to follow, but I believe that the results are accurate. The trees are updated from time to time as and when I do further research.

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MOTT FAMILY

The Mott family was based in South Staffordshire, where the line goes back to the 1500s. By 1700 they had settled in Penn, west of Wolverhampton. John Mott (1719-1790) was a bricklayer.

From that simple background, John's son William Mott (1756-1826) became Registrar of Lichfield Cathedral, and built himself a fine house in the Cathedral Close. Later generations lived at Wall, south of Lichfield, until the early 1900s.

For more information see Roger Mott's book The Motts of Lichfield, Pen Press 2011.

SMITH FAMILY

The Smiths were based in Rothwell, a small mining town south-east of Leeds, at least by the 1500s. The 1379 Subsidy Rolls for Rothwell include Henricus Smyth, a builder, so the connection may well be a lot older than that.

The Richardsons came from the other side of Leeds, and were farming at Bramhope in the 1500s. Later they moved to Wigton, but remained a farming family until the first half of the nineteenth century.

In the 1800s both families moved into Leeds, where Joseph Smith married Maggie Richardson (Newton) in 1917 ... and the rest is history.

Mott and Smith Family History

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