Smith Family Research

Dear Family,

I went to the Family History Center this week and looked a little bit at the film I had ordered in. Surprise!!! Ann Wollage Bartington, the aunt Sarah Bean Shearring had lived with, was an LDS member, too. I had to go to Salt Lake today and spent a few minutes at the Family History Library and found that the records telling of Ann Bartington’s baptism must have been lost. So I haven't found her baptism date but she was a member when she died. Sarah Bean (Shearring) was "Cut off" - which means! she was excommunicated - They cut them off the church for trivial things then. And the Cousin, William Bartington, Ann Wollage Bartington’s son, was baptized and emigrated.

SLFHL film 087,037

Record of Baptisms & Ordinations London Conference

The new style register adopted Jan 1853 [Minnie Margetts, the secretary in the Church Offices who indexed these old records, called this Bk 425] from 1843 to 1855 Walworth Branch

Line 17 Ann Bartington, widow, Wilds Rents,

Rec'd 23 Apr 1852 from Southwark

Line 81 Sarah Bean, age 12, single, Smith Bldgs,

rec'd from Limehouse, 9 Oct 1853, cut off 1855

Line 82 William Bartington, age 15, single,

Smith Bldgs, born 9 Apr 1838 Lambeth, Surrey,

bapt 10 Oct 1853 at Finsbury

emigrated 23 Jul 1855

Another book - Walworth

Line 57 Ann Bartington, widow, Smith Buildings, bapt by Kemp, confirmed by Penrose, recd 6 Dec 1857 from Lambeth, dead

Another book: Ann Bartington, died 23 Sept 1866

William Bartington emigrated to the US. I found him on the Mormon Immigration Index CD crossing the ocean in 1855. But I haven’t been able to find him in any US records. He wasn’t on the records of those LDS companies who crossed the plains. And he wasn’t anywhere in the US in the 1860 Census. There were several diaries on the CD of people who were on that ship and while they mentioned several babies dying on the trip, they didn’t say anything about adults dying.

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Mormon Immigration Index CD

BARTINGTON, William [born] 1838>

[ship] Cynosure [sailed] 1855

Gender: M

Age:17

Origin: London

Occ: Laborer

Note: BMR, p.213

Ship: Cynosure

Date of Departure: 29 Jul 1855

Port of Departure: Liverpool, England

LDS Immigrants: 159

Church Leader: George Seager

Date of Arrival: 5 Sep 1855

Port of Arrival: New York, New York

Source(s): BMR, Book #1040, pp. 204-

214 (FHL #025,690); Customs (FHL#175,512)

Notes: "DEPARTURE. -- The ship Cynosure,

Captain Pray, sailed on Sunday the 29th ultimo for New York, with 159 souls of the Saints on board, under the presidency of Elder George Seager, with Elder William Rogers and William J. Silver as counselors. It is impossible for us to determine at present when our next vessel will sail, but it will be as soon as a ship's complement of passengers can be made up.! In the meantime we would say to those who have determined to emigrate the first opportunity, do not delay sending in your deposits."

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Well - It is strange that all these years we have thought that Sarah Bean had no contact with the church after she went to live with her aunt. Now we find that the aunt was LDS all the time!!! The aunt, Ann Wollage Bartington died 5 years after Sarah was married.

Big mysteries - but fun to research.

Donnette