• Born 1791, daughter of Thomas Woodrouffe (later Thomas Woodrouffe Smith) and Anne Reynolds.
• Had a younger sister Maria, who (on 3 September 1833 at the Friends Meeting House, London) married George Head Head (d.1876).
• Married (in Wandsworth, London, on 29 August 1811) John Barton Senior (1789-1852).
• Died October 1821, aged ~30, without issue? (See below).

There is constant disagreement about the spelling of her name: Anne or Ann? Woodrouffe or Woodruffe? And are Woodruffe and Smith hyphenated together? There doesn't seem to be any consistency. For example, in a letter written by her husband John he writes it as 'Woodruffe Smith', and the same spelling is used by his son John in his memoir, but in her marriage record it is written 'Woodrouffe Smith', so that is the spelling followed here.

There has also been some disagreement about her issue. *Smith 1878 records "his first wife was Ann Smith, by whom he had issue a dau. — Ann Barton, who mar. Rev. William Harvey, s.p.". But in the letter above John writes: "As she left no children I felt doubly desolate", which is pretty definitive. It never made much sense why John would name his later daughter Anne if his first wife had a daughter by that name who survived to marriage age!

Her father was friends with the poet Robert Southey, according to a letter from Southey to Bernard Barton the Quaker poet (1784-1849): "It has accidentally come to my knowledge that a brother of yours is married to the daughter of my worthy and respected friend, Mr. Woodruffe Smith. When you have an opportunity, it would oblige me if you would recall me to her remembrance, by assuring her that I have not forgotten the kindness which I so often experienced at her father's house."

Marriage

The following is Public Record Office reference RG 6/541:


"On the twenty ninth Day of the eighth Month, One Thousand Eight Hundred and eleven... John Barton of Chichester in the County of Sussex, Merchant.... Son of John Barton, late.... of Hertford deceased.... and Elizabeth.... his Wife, and Ann Woodrouffe Smith, Daughter of Thomas Woofrouffe Smith of Stockwell in the County of Surry deceased.... and Ann... his Wife, took each other in Marriage in a publick Assembly of the people called Quakers, in their meeting house at Wandsworth in the County of Surry in the presence of us

Tho.s Reynolds of Wallington, Surry, Bleacher
Geo. Harrison, Wandsworth
Sam.l West of Billiter Lane, London, Warehousekeeper

This Marriage was solemnized between us,
John Barton
Ann Woodrouffe Smith"