My wife's ancestors - Smirk - Contents

Smirk of Durham

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Durham County Record Office
    • Chester-le-Street parish records.
    • Sunderland parish records.
    • St Margaret's church, Durham, parish records.

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Possibly our family

The following may be the same family, and may also be our family:

• John Smurk.
  He mar 23 Nov 1727, Chester-le-Street, Durham, to Margaret Marshall.
  See transcript.

  
  

• John Smirk.
  He mar Margaret ----.
  Children baptised at Sunderland, Durham.
  This must be Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland.
  They had issue:
  1. Thomas Smirk,
     bapt 29 Apr 1728 at Sunderland. See transcript.

  2. Margaret Smirk,
     bapt 24 Jan 1730 at Sunderland. See transcript.

  3. John Smirk,
     bapt 15 Oct 1733 at Sunderland. See transcript.

  4. George Smirk,
     bapt 24 July 1736 at Sunderland. See transcript.

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Our family

The above may be our family, which starts with:

• John Smirk,
  had issue:
  1. Margaret Smirk,
     think NOT Margret,
     born 27 Dec 1729.
     [Hopper genealogy] says she was of Sunderland, Durham, and was born Sunderland.
     [Noltie memoir] though says she was born "at Shiels" (perhaps this is North Shields or South Shields, both of which are a bit N of Sunderland).
     She mar 16 Jan 1751 at St Margaret's church, Durham, to Thomas Hopper [born 11 Oct 1724] and had issue.
     At the time this was regarded as the end of 1750. Transcript says 16 Jan 1750, which is probably what was written (old style year). [Hopper genealogy] says 16 Jan 1751, which presumably is new style year.

From p.3 of Hopper genealogy (before 1852).