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

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Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of the Very Rev. Robert Hodgson (1776–1844),

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from 1820 until his death; and of Mary Tucker (born in 1778), a daughter of

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Martin Tucker. Her parents had married in 1804. Her grandfather was another Robert Hodgson (born in 1740), of

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in Cheshire. Her youngest brother, George Henry Hodgson, was among the officers of

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. On 18 March 1824 at St George's, Hanover Square,

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, she married Oswald Smith (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), the second son of George Smith. They had seven children: * Isabella Mary Smith (24 April 1825 – 12 July 1907) m. 1847 Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan (of Brinkburn Priory). * Oswald Augustus Smith (21 October 1826 – 24 August 1902) m. 1856 Rose Sophia Vansittart. * Eric Carrington Smith (25 May 1828 – 26 April 1906) m. 1849 Mary Maberly. * Laura Charlotte Smith (2 August 1829 – 3 June 1912) m. 1848 Col. Evan Maberly. * Beilby Smith (12 August 1830 – 1831), buried 29 April 1831. *

Frances Dora Smith Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the F ...

(29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) m. 1853

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (21 July 182416 February 1904), styled The Honourable Claude Bowes-Lyon from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the pater ...

. * Marion Henrietta Smith (25 Feb 1835 – 11 July 1897) m.1854 Lt-Col. Henry Dorrien Streatfeild of Chiddingstone Castle. In 1853, their daughter

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married Claude Bowes-Lyon, who later became the

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. 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

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. The earlier Mildred Porteus was the daughter of John and Mary Smith, Mary being a daughter of

Augustine Warner Jr. Colonel Augustine Warner Jr. (1642 – June 19, 1681) was a Virginia politician, planter, and landowner. He served in the House of Burgesses 1666–77 and was its Speaker in two separate sessions in 1676 and 1677, before and after Bacon's Rebel ...

and a sister of Mildred Warner, who married Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) and was the grandmother of the first U.S. president,

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.Albert H. Spencer, ''Genealogy of the Spencer family'' (1956)
p. v (snippet)
/ref> 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

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