Elizabeth Mitchener was one of Ari’s 4x great-grandmothers. She was born in Goodworth Clatford, Hampshire, in December 1840, in time to be in the 1841 census at five months old. Her father was Charles Mitchener and her mother was Mary Henrietta Smith. Elizabeth was baptised at St Peter’s church in the village. By the time of the 1851 census, Elizabeth was ten and attending school in the village, along with her little brother Walter. Her father Charles had died when she was on

Ari’s 5x great-grandmother Mary Henrietta Smith was born in 1811 in the village of Chilbolton in Hampshire. The River Test between Chilbolton and Wherwell She was the fifth child of Thomas Smith and Jane Day, and was baptised on the 2nd of June at the church of St Mary the Less. There are no other records for Mary until 1832, when she married Charles Mitchener. They lived in Goodworth Clatford, where they had four children. Their first daughter, Frances Mary Edith (known as F