Henrietta Mildred Hodgson
Born(1805-01-06)6 January 1805
London, England
Died19 November 1891(1891-11-19) (aged 86)
Hyde Park, London, England
NationalityBritish
SpouseOswald Smith
Parents

Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (6 January 1805 – 19 November 1891) was an English lady with both British royal and American presidential genealogical connections.

Life and family

Born on 6 January 1805 in London[1][2] Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of the Very Rev. Robert Hodgson (1776–1844), Dean of Carlisle from 1820 until his death; and of Mary Tucker (born in 1778), a daughter of Colonel Martin Tucker. Her parents had married in 1804. Her grandfather was another Robert Hodgson (born in 1740), of Congleton in Cheshire.[3][4] Her youngest brother, George Henry Hodgson, was among the officers of Franklin's lost expedition.

On 18 March 1824 at St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, she married Oswald Smith (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), the second son of George Smith.[5][6] They had seven children:

In 1853, their daughter Frances married Claude Bowes-Lyon, who later became the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Frances became the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, a great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, and great-great-grandmother of Charles III.

Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was the granddaughter of Mildred Porteus, who had married Robert Hodgson, and was herself the granddaughter of Robert and Mildred Porteus, of Virginia, who in 1720 moved to Yorkshire. The earlier Mildred Porteus was the daughter of John and Mary Smith, Mary being a daughter of Augustine Warner Jr. and a sister of Mildred Warner, who married Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) and was the grandmother of the first U.S. president, George Washington.[9]

Henrietta Mildred Smith died on 19 November 1891. At her death, her memorial in All Saints' Church, Sanderstead in Surrey, states she had 111 living descendants.

References

  1. ^ William C. Dendy, "The Parish of Sanderstead", The Home Counties Magazine, 10(1908):81–89.
  2. ^ Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26(2012):58-76.
  3. ^ John Bennett Boddie, Historical Southern Families: Volume 23 (1998): "...Robert Hodgson of Congleton in Chester Co., b. 1740. Their son, Rev. Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle, m. 1804 Mary Tucker. Their daughter Henrietta Mildred Hodgson m. 1824 Oswald Smith..."
  4. ^ Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, vol. 88, p. 110: "...Mary, daughter of Col. Martin Tucker..."
  5. ^ Publications of the Harleian Society, Registers Volume 24 (1897), The register book of marriages belonging to the parish of St. George's, Hanover Square, Vol IV (1824–1837), p. 5: "Oswald Smith, Esq., B., of S' Marylebone, & Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, S., a minor. Licence. With the consent of her father."
  6. ^ Micajah Boland, Sarah Harper and her descendants, the Terrys: their royal and colonial ancestry (1958), p. 12: "Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, daughter of Robert Hodgson and Mary Tucker, married on 18 March 1824, Oswald Smith of Blendon Hall, co. Kent."
  7. ^ John Debrett, Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1836) p. 246
  8. ^ William Courthope, Debrett's complete peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1838) p. 300
  9. ^ Albert H. Spencer, Genealogy of the Spencer family (1956), p. v (snippet)
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