Frances Shores Smith

     Frances Shores Smith was born on 23 March 1859 at Leeds, (Southeast District), Yorks, England. She was the daughter of Edward S. Smith and Elizabeth Curry. Frances Shores Smith was baptized on 16 February 1879 at St John The Evangelist, Holbeck, Yorks, England.¹ She married James Dean, son of James Dean and Sarah Munday, on 9 December 1878 at St Peter's Church, Leeds, Yorks, England; James was listed as a hackle pin grinder, residing Front Row, son of James Dean, a cloth dresser. Frances was a 20 year old spinster, residing Front Street, daughter of Edward Smith, moulder.^2,3 Frances Shores Smith died on 16 April 1918 at Revere, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, at age 59.⁴ She was buried on 19 April 1918 at Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts.⁴
     She appeared on the census of 1881 at Holbeck, Yorks, England; Frances, then married, was living apart from her husband, with her sister Hannah's family, and her parents. Her young son, John, then 2, was with her. Fanny was a burler in a cloth factory.⁵ She immigrated in 1887 to Massachusetts; Fannie Dean, 28, matron, Florrie, 4, Thomas, 3, and Ernest, 6 mos, departed Liverpool, aboard the ship "Marathon". Their intended destination was Massachusetts and arrived 9 May 1887. Their location aboard ship was "after steerage".⁶ She and James Dean appeared on the census of 22 April 1910 at 72 Main Street, Lowell, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts; James and Frances were both enumerated as being 50 years old. married for 30 years. The census indicates that Frances had ten children, only six surviving at that time. Since we know of only nine, additional birth records in Yorkshire must be checked. Son Ernest, born England, was aged 24, and was a pin grinder as was his father. Bertha was 17, Chester 15 and James was 12 and they were born Massachusetts.^7,8