James Smith

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. Joan Chambers is connected to me in this way:

Joan Chambers (nee Bream) (1943)
Her father was George Bream (1921) who married Maria Asso (1921)
Her father was Peter Asso (1873) who married Ann Maria Smith (1886)
Her father was James Smith (1859) who married Sarah Schofield (c1860)
Her father was George Schofield (1820) & he also had Emma Schofield (c1865) who married John Bowman (1863)
His father was James Bowman (1837) & he also had Elizabeth Bowman (c1865) who married Frederick Wright (1862)
Her father was Henry Wright (1830) & he also had Amos Wright (1857)
He had Sarah Wright (c1895) who married Fred Smith (1887)
They had Annie Smith (c1922) who married John Harling (c1920)
His father was Arthur Harling (1886)
His father was Joseph Harling (c1852)
His father was Edward Harling (c1831) & he also had Ned Harling (c1853)
He had Reuben Harling (1891)
He had Edna Harling (1919) who married George Stenton (1924)
His father was David Stenton (c1889) who married Bertha Evans (1893)
Her father was Thomas Evans (c1854) who married Elizabeth Davies (1857)
Her father was Thomas Davis & he also had Joseph Davies (1852)
He had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Occupation. James was employed as a first driver of traction engine at Glasshoughton lime quarry. He continued in this employment until at least 1890. He appears to have had little or no schooling, as he was unable to read or write until in 1892, at the age of 33 years, he taught himself to do both. James was a self-made man, he eventually gave up working at the lime quarry, and set up as a builder. He built a large detached house on Holywell Lane, and two rows of terrace houses along back Holywell Lane, and down Rock Hill. James in later life was the local Justice of the Peace, and a magistrate, he had sat for a number of years on the Castleford bench, was a highly respected pillar of the community.

• note. ³⁴⁸ Peter Graham notes:
1891 Census - lived at 75 Dark Lane, Glasshoughton. Father James's mother ion law Ann Schofield [nee Green] lived with them. She was 66.
1901 Census - lived at 172 Back Lane, Glasshoughton. James was a Colliery Engine Tenter, son George was a coal truck repairer, John was a Bricklayers Apprentice and Maria was a Drapers Assistant.
1911 Census - lived at Holliwell House, Rockhill, Glasshoughton. It's now George V Workingmen's Club.

James married Sarah Schofield, daughter of George Schofield and Ann(ie) Green, on 14 Feb 1880 in Whitwood Mere, near Castleford, West Yorkshire England. (Sarah Schofield was born in Jul 1860 in Methley, West Yorkshire England and died after 1937 in Castleford, West Yorkshire England.)