When Robert Smalley was born on 29 March 1796, in Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Smalley, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Woodcock, was 40. He married Sarah Hart on 20 October 1819, in Weston, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name chiefly from Smalley in Balderston near Blackburn (Lancashire), but occasionally from Smalley (Derbyshire) and perhaps also from Smalley in Stanley (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English smæl ‘narrow, thin’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In Scots pronunciation the surname developed to Smellie , Smillie , and Smiley .
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