Henrietta Mildred Hodgson


Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was an English lady with both British royal and USA presidential genealogical connections.
Through her Virginia ancestry, Queen Elizabeth II and her descendants are related to George Washington, with Augustine Warner Jr. and his wife Mildred Reade having been their common ancestors.

Life and family

Born on 6 January 1805 in London, Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of the Very Rev. Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle from 1820 until his death; and of Mary Tucker, a daughter of Colonel Martin Tucker. Her parents had married in 1804. Her grandfather was another Robert Hodgson, of Congleton in Cheshire.
On 18 March 1824 at St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, she married Oswald Smith of St Marylebone and Blendon Hall in Kent. Oswald was the second son of George Smith.
They had seven children:
  1. Isabella Mary Smith m. 1847 Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan.
  2. Oswald Augustus Smith m. 1856 Rose Sophia Vansittart.
  3. Eric Carrington Smith m. 1849 Mary Maberly.
  4. Laura Charlotte Smith m. 1848 Col. Evan Maberly.
  5. Beilby Smith.
  6. Frances Dora Smith m. 1853 Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
  7. Marion Henrietta Smith m.1854 Lt-Col. Henry Dorrien Streatfeild.
In 1853, their daughter Frances married Claude Bowes-Lyon, who later later became the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was thus a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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 Yorkshire. The earlier Mildred Porteus was the daughter of John and Mary Smith, Mary being a daughter of Augustine Warner Jr. and a sister of Mildred Warner, who married Lawrence Washington and was the grandmother of the first US President, George Washington.
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:

Sacred

TO THE MEMORY OF

HENRIETTA MILDRED SMITH,

WIDOW OF OSWALD SMITH.

B. 6. JAN 1805 D. 19. NOV 1891

LEAVING AT HER DEATH

ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN

DIRECT SURVIVING DESCENDANTS.



'HER CHILDREN ARISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED"

PROV. XXXV V. 28.'