Emma Smith ^3,8,9

  Noted events in her life were:

• Birth, 4 Jan 1872, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ^3,8 Emma SMITH was born on this day at Kiln Yard, Bulwell. She was the fith child to her parents Thomas and Emma SMITH. Thomas at this time was a Coal Miner.

• Residence: Kiln Yard, 4 Jan 1872, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ³

• 1881 British Census, 1881, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ⁸ Emma was 9 years old and living at home with her parents.

• Residence: 16 Quarry Road, 1881, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ⁸

• Marriage, 2 Apr 1882, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ³ Edwin WYLD and Emma SMITH were married on this day in St Mary's Church at Bulwell.

• 1901 British Census, 1901, Nottingham, England. ⁴ Emma was 30 years old.

• Marriage, 1921, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ¹⁰ Emma SMITH'S husband (Edwin WYLD) died in 1902 leaving her a widow, and her children, Samuel, Lillian and Hilda were all quite young. One of Edwin's married sisters, Elizabeth, had also died, leaving the husband, Edmund HOSKINS, a widower. Emma then married this man and they moved into a house at Mapperly.

• Occupation: Baker and Pork Butcher, 1903, Bulwell, Nottingham, England. ³ After the death of her husband, Edwin WYLD, and with her son, Samuel, only 12 years old, Emma enlisted the help of her brother, George SMITH, to enable her to buy the terrace house and shop at 80 Commercial Road, Bulwell. This was to remain the family business and home for the next 64 years. Emma's brother Walter SMITH also owned a butcher's shop on Main Street, Bulwell.

• Residence: 80 Commercial Road, 1903, Bulwell, Nottingham, England.

Emma married Edwin Wyld, son of Nathaniel Wyld and Harriet Farley, on 2 Apr 1888 in St Marys, Bulwell, Nottingham.¹ (Edwin Wyld was born on 20 Mar 1864 in Calverton, Notts and died on 24 Dec 1902 in Radford.)

Emma next married Edmund Hoskins in 1921. (Edmund Hoskins was born on 27 Jan 1847 in Leicester, England.)