Virtually nothing known of the family in England except the marriage and burial of Christopher. The family in Virginia and of Christopher's Towneley wife is more forthcoming.
Sources: McCurdy, "A Discovery Concerning," pp. 564-65: "Elizabeth married first, Mr. Richard Halsted of Windlehouse; second, Christopher Smith of Stannihurst, gent.;" Taliaferro, "The Wives of Colonel John Battaile," pp. 83-88; Towneley www.towneley.org (Burnley.gov.uk)
generation no. 1
Christopher Smith, born 18 March 1592, Stonirakes, Lancashire, England, died 16 April 1638-48. Married Elizabeth Towneley, born c 1598 in Burnley, died 1679.
Source: Towneley www.towneley.org (Burnley.gov.uk)
generation no. 2
Major Lawrence Smith, born 29 March 1629 Stonirakes, Lancashire, later of Abington Parish, Gloucester Co., died August 1700 in England. Married (1) 28 September 1652 in Gloucester, Mary Debnam, born c 1635, died c 1675 in VA, (2) Mary Hitchon, born c 1631.
Sources: McCurdy, "The Towneleys and Warners," p. 361, note 151; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 81
generation no. 3
Elizabeth Smith, born 1673 in Gloucester Co., VA. Married John Battaile of St. Mary's Parrish.
Colonel Lawrence Smith [collateral], born c 1657. Married (1) Mildred Chisman, daughter of Captain Thomas Chisman and Elizabeth Reade, daughter of George Reade; (2) Mildred Reade, daughter of John Reade, George Reade's eldest son.
Source: Trudell, Colonial Yorktown, p. 111
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