Background
Born 6 January 1805, Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of the Very Review Robert Hodgson (1776–1844), Dean of Carlisle from 1820 until his death. And of Mary Tucker, born in 1778, a daughter of Colonel Martin Tucker.
Born 6 January 1805, Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of the Very Review Robert Hodgson (1776–1844), Dean of Carlisle from 1820 until his death. And of Mary Tucker, born in 1778, a daughter of Colonel Martin Tucker.
Her parents had married in 1804. Her grandfather was another Robert Hodgson (born 1740), of Congleton in Cheshire. The parish register gives one of the few clues to her date of birth, as she is noted as "a minor".
Oswald was the second son of George Smith.
The Smiths had the following children: Isabella Mary (born 24 April 1825, d 1907) m. 1847 Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan (of Brinkburn Priory), Oswald Augustus (b 21 October 1826, d 1902) m.
1856 Rose Sophia Vansittart, Eric Carrington (b 25 May 1828, d 1906) m. 1849 Mary Maberly, Laura Charlotte (b 2 August 1829) m.
1848 Colonel Evan Maberly, Beilby (b 12 August 1830, d 1831), Frances Dora (29 July 1832, d 1922) m.
1853 Claude Bowes-Lyon 13th Earl of Strathmore, Marion Henrietta (b 25 February 1835, d 1897) m.1854 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild (of Chiddingstone Castle). In 1853 the Smiths" daughter Frances married Claude Bowes-Lyon, later Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She thus became a great-grandmother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who was later the mother of Queen Elizabeth World War II Henrietta Mildred was the granddaughter of Mildred Porteus, who married the older Robert Hodgson, who was herself the granddaughter of Robert and Mildred Porteus, until 1720 of Virginia, who in that year moved to Yorkshire.
Henrietta Mildred Smith died 19 November 1891.
At her death, her memorial in All Saints Church, Sanderstead, states:
Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
HENRIETTA MILDRED Smith,
WIDOW OF OSWALD Smith. B. 6. JAN 1805 Doctorate. 19. NOV 1891
LEAVING AT HER DEATH
ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN
DIRECT SURVIVING DESCENDANTS. "HER CHILDREN ARISE Uttar Pradesh AND CALL HER BLESSED"
PROV. XXXV V. 28.".