Mary Smith

1740 - 1775  (34 years)

• Name	Mary Smith
  Birth	12 Dec 1740  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aug 1775  [1, 2, 3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. Mary Smith ,   b. 12 Dec 1740   d. Aug 1775  (Age 34 years) ▻ Thomas Dyer ,  m. 29 Nov 1768 ;  William Berney   2. Benjamin Smith ,   b. 21 Jul 1742   d. 26 Feb 1806, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England  (Age 63 years) ▻ Charlotte Turner ,  m. 23 Feb 1765
  Person ID	I16991	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Smith,   b. 1707, of Islington, London, England d. 13 Oct 1776 (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. Bef Jul 1766
  Family ID	F10361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas Dyer,   b. Bef 4 Jul 1744   d. 16 Aug 1800 (Age > 56 years)
  Marriage	29 Nov 1768	St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Children	1. Maj.-Gen. Sir John Dyer, K.C.B.,   b. 5 Feb 1772   d. 2 Jul 1816, Woolwich, London, England (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F10360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	William Berney,   b. of Barbados d. Bef Nov 1765
  Children	1. Dorothy Elizabeth Berney   d. 1842, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England
  Family ID	F17770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  She predeceased her wealthy slaveowner father Richard Smith, but her second husband, Thomas Dyer, profited well from his involvement in the lengthy settlement of Smith's estate. Meanwhile, her daughter by her first husband William Berney, Dorothy Elizabeth Berney (d. 1842), was one of Smith's eventual heirs and was one of those slaveowners compensated by the British government in 1837 when slavery was abolished in the UK.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4313] The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith ed. Judith Phillips Stanton. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003. [S2176] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003. [S2179] E. H. Martin, "Swinnerton-Dyer Family." Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 10:307; 10:341, 1907; 11:24, 1908. [S90] Stirnet.com, by Peter Barns-Graham., date only. [S4313] The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith ed. Judith Phillips Stanton. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003., date only.