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Ca't find what I thought I was looking for that may have helped you's in your research. This is the stuff I did find :- Advert posted by John Krzyzanowski www links :- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smails-6 https://www.rootspoint.com/search/?CollectionKey=UK1861&LastName=Smails&County=Northumberland&MatchType=exact

Great research Canny Lass. Local knowledge seems to indicate there were three Miss Smails . Grandmother , mother and granddaughter at the shop near Hollymount . The Smail’s shop in Morpeth sold similar products to farmers and locals. I feel they must be related . Working on gardens and on large estates may have led the family of the Smails to opportunities to sell supplies to an emerging market . Moving off the land to an industrial society may have been a factor. More products available plus the rise of allotments. So many people kept live stock .( Pigs Hens ). We could learn something from the past here . No transporting of products huge distances. Hardware shops in Scotland are still a viable business model . In England big business has taken over with a need for a car to get you to say B and Q .

Vic, would you like to have another look at your answers. There are 20 questions and I think you' may have missed nr 15, which means that your answers 15 - 19 may be the answers to 16 - 20.