Isaac Smith

I would imagine that this is your Isaac, the beginning of difficult times for him.
Coventry Herald 1849
Whereas, a Petition of ISAAC SMITH, of Keresley, near Coventry, the County of Warwick, Market Gardener and Ribbon Weaver, lately Little Park-Street, Coventry aforesaid, Shopkeeper, Seedsman, and Market Gardener, an Insolvent Debtor, having been filed in the County Court of Warwickshire, holden at Coventry, in the sad County, and an Interim Order for Protection from Process having been given to the said Issac Smith, under the provisions of the Statutes that case made and provided, the said Isaac Smith is hereby required to appear in the said Court to be holden at Coventry aforesaid, before the Judge of the said Court, on the Twentyfifth day of April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon precisely, for his First Examination touching his Debts, Estate, and Effects, and to be further dealt with according to the of the said Statutes. And Notice is hereby given, that the choice of Assignees is to take place at the time so appointed. All Persons indebted to the said Isaac Smith, or who have any of his Effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr Thomas Ball Troughton, the Clerk of the said Court, at his Office at Little Park-Street, Coventry, in the said County.
J. HOLT, Gosford-Street, Coventry, Petitioner's Attorney. March 29, 1849.
Wow. Never knew any of this. Terribly sad. Thankyou.
 
Can I ask do things line up with Isaac Smith if I have his sons diary. He has Herbert Smith son of I Smith 33 Bridge St, Swinton N Rotherham Yorkshire England. If I should be killed or found dead please let the above know. H S Sept 1884. Thankyou.
 
The 1881 census (piece 4683, folio 26, page 8) has Isaac Smith living at that address. He is aged 64, Grocer & General Dealer, born Warwickshire. States married, but is on his own.
 
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