Smith-Clark Photos

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Family of Richard Smith and Anna Clark

Most of these photographs were found among the effects of Alan E W Smith 1904–2000 after his death; his stepson John Townshend kindly scanned them for me when I discovered that Alan was my biological father. The remaining photographs have been kindly provided by other relatives.

Richard Smith 1830–1891

married 1866

Anna Clark 1842–1918

I do not have any casual photographs of Richard and Anna, only the formal portraits below. The older portrait of Richard was used also in this obituary (pdf: rotate clockwise! See also this note). The second picture of Anna is labelled on the back "Mother Taken about 12 months before her death", which dates it to 1917; I don't know the dates of the other pictures.

Richard and Anna had twelve children, but three of them died the same year they were born: Malcolm Oscar Smith in 1872, Mabel Annie Smith in 1875, and Harold Smith in 1879. The remaining nine, eight boys and a girl, are shown with their parents in the following montage. Unfortunately, there is no indication which is which. With the numbering indicated, 8 is the one girl, Hilda Emily Smith 1880, and 6 is rather similar to a photo that is labelled Wilfred Smith born 1871. I would welcome help with any of the others. (Note that this numbering is NOT the same as the chronological numbering used below. There are more unidentified photographs at the end.)

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Richard Edwin Smith 1866–1957

married 1914

May Katherine Quinn born c1888

The first photograph below is labelled "Richard Smith in uniform after return from first voyage 1883" (see these reminiscences of Richard). The second photograph is labelled "Richard Edwin Smith aged 75 in USA", and the third is derived from the second. Richard emigrated to the USA in 1888 (according to the 1920 US Federal Census). According to family records he married Katherine Quinn and had two children, Thornton born 1914 and Eloise 1915–2010. (The US Federal Censuses give different names for his wife, but on marriage and in 1940 she is given as May K, which I assume is May Katherine.)

Ernest Alfred Smith 1868–1949

married 1896

Jessie Blunt 1866–1943

Ernest and Jessie had five children: Gwendoline Hilda Smith 1897–1908, Ena Rosalind Elizabeth Smith 1901–1992, Oswald Richard Smith 1902–1993, Alan Ernest William Smith 1904–2000, and Jessie Dorothy Smith 1906–2000. Alan was the only one who married (late in life, with no children), and it was assumed that the line had ended, until I discovered in 2015 that Alan was my biological father. (The line will end with me, as I have no children.) There is an obituary of Ernest here.

Oswald Edgar Smith 1869–1910

married 1899

Louisa Elizabeth Tapscott 1874–1964

Oswald's brothers Ernest and Alan have left reminiscences of his life (pdf). He and Louisa had two children: (Oswald) Harold Tapscott Smith born 1901, and (Henry) Richard Tapscott Smith 1905–1978; both dropped their first name early on, certainly before they married. They were both born in England but married in Ontario, Canada in September 1925, in York and London respectively. Harold then moved to Pennsylvania, where his mother eventually joined him. The only photograph I have of any of them is of Richard at the wedding of his uncle Leonard in May 1925 (see below).

Wilfred Herbert Smith 1871–1934

did not marry

Leonard George Smith 1876–1943

married 1925

Violet Irene Wilson 1903–1989

Leonard moved to Canada in 1909, where he officially changed his name to Starling (his grandmother's maiden name) in 1919, and married Violet in 1925. They had four children: Ronald Hartley Starling 1926–2014, Wilson Gordon Starling 1928–2018, Lavella Maxine Starling 1929–2017, and Audrey June Starling 1931–1933.

Elfric Hubert Smith 1878–1957

did not marry

Elfric appears to have been an invalid; according to Kenneth Smith, he died in a war hospital.

Hilda Emily Smith 1880–1943

married 1924

Alexander George Fretwell 1868–1957

Both were English but emigrated (separately) to the United States, where they married; there were no children.

Alan Eustace Smith 1881–1960

married 1918

Emily Isabella Bennett 1894–1968

Alan and Bella, as Emily Isabella was known, had two children: Kenneth Alan Smith 1919–1997, who did not marry, and Ian Eustace Smith 1923–2009, who married Joyce Simpson and had two children, Pamela and Michael.

Rudolph Percy Smith 1884–1951

did not marry

Rudolph emigrated to the United Stated in 1906. At the time of the 1930 and 1940 Federal Censuses, he was living with his oldest brother Richard Edwin Smith and his family in New York, where he died in 1951.

The pictures below are of the three youngest children of Richard and Anna.

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