Birth: 2 January 1846 Pebbles, Pebblesshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Archibald Smail c1812-1888
Mother: Agnes Swanston c1815-1864
Christening: Pebbles, Pebblesshire, Scotland, UK
Marriage: 3 December 1868 Walkerburn, Innerleithen, Pebblesshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Ballantyne 1845-1932
Death: 5:10pm 17 July 1917 10 Duke Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Archibald Smail 1869-1917
Helen Smail 1870-1873
John Ballantyne Smail 1873-1941
Archibald Smail 1869-1917
Walter Smail 1875-1952
Agnes Swanston Smail 1877-1956
David Ballantyne Smail 1879-1917
Ellen Jane Smail 1882-1965
Bessie Welsh Smail 1887-1892
Adam Smail 1889-1915
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Walter Smail born on 2 January 1846 in Peebles, Peebles, parents Archibald Smail and Agnes Swanston.
Entry in the Register of Births for Walter Smail on 2 January 1846 in Peebles (60/270), parents Archibald Smail and Agnes Swanston. "Walter, son of Archibald Smail travelling Merchant and of Agnes Swanston his spouse was born on the 2 Jan 1846 and baptized [...] Peebles" The date of the baptism is unknown, four brothers and sister are on the same page 157.
In the 1851 census as Walter Smail aged 5, born in Peebles, Peeblesshire, and living with his parents (Archibald and Agnes), four brothers (Adam, David, John S and Robert), sister (Jane) and grandmother (Jane Mitchell) in Northgate, Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland.
In the 1861 census as Walter Smail aged 15, born in Peebles, Peebleshire, a Woollen Mill Worker, and living with his parents (Archibald and Agnes), four brothers (Adam, Daviel, James, John and Robert) in Morning Side, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland.
His mother died in Innerleithen in 1864, and his father married Mary Hall in Edinburgh in 1866.
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for Walter Smail and Elizabeth Ballantyne on 3 December 1868 in Innerleithen, Peebles.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Walter Smail and Elizabeth Ballantyne in 1868 in Innerleithen (762/15). "Page 8 1868 Marriages in theParish of Innerleithen in the County of Peebles No. 15 1868 on the Third day of December at Walkerburn? after Banns according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland (signed Walter Smail) Woolen Spinner (Bachelor) aged 23 of Innerleithen, parents Archibald Smail Travelling Merchant Agnes Smail M.S. Swanston (Deceased) and Elizabeth Ballentyne ? Marker? (Spinster) aged 23 of Walkernburn parents John Ballentyne Mill Worker (Deceased) and Helen Ballentyne M.S. Welsh Witness John Smail".
In the 1871 census as Walter Smail aged 25, born in Pebbles, Peeblesshire, a Wool Carding Master Charnce, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (Archibald) and daughter (Helen) at Pink Bank, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland.
On a copy of the Entry of Birth number 71 in 1875 in the district of Ladhope in the county of Selkirk for the birth of Walter Smail on 10 April 1875 at ?, Ladhope, parents Walter Smail, a machine foreman, and Elizabeth Smail, maiden name Ballantyne, married on 3 December 1868 at Innerleithen, registered by Walter Smail, his father.
In the 1881 census as Walter Smail aged 35, born in Peebles, Peeblesshire, a foreman yarn making woolen factory, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), four sons (Archd, David, John, and Walter), daughter (Agnes) and mother-in-law (Ellen Ballantyre) at 5 Union Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
In the 1891 census as Walter Smail aged 45, born in Peebles, Peeblesshire, a woollen spinner, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), five sons (Adam, David B, John B, Walter and William M), three daughters (Agnes S, Betsey W and Elen Jane) and mother-in-law (Ellen Ballantyne) in Weensland Terrace, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
In the 1901 census as Walter Smail aged 55, born in Pebble, Pebblesshire, a woollen mill manufacturer, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), four sons (Adam, David B, Walter and William), and two daughters (Agnes S and Ellen Jane) in Leithen Cottage, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland.
In the 1911 census as Walter Smail aged 65, born in Peebles, Peeblesshire, a wool carding machine manager, and living with his wife (Elizabeth) and two daughters (Agnes Swanston and Helen Jane) in four rooms with windows at 10 Duke Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Three other families lived at the same address.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Walter Smail in 1917 aged 71 in Hawick (789/167). "Page 56 Deaths in the Parish of Hawick in the County of Roxburgh [...] No. 167 Walter Smail Wool Spinner (Retired) (Married to Elizabeth Ballantyne) 1917 July Seventeenth 5 h 10 m P.M. 10 Duke Street. Hawick 71 years parents Archibald Smail Commercial Traveller (Jewelry) (Deceased) and Agnes Smail M.S. Swanston (Deceased), of Diabetes Mallitus Cardiac & Renal Dropsey Informant John B Smail (son) 1 Wilton Hill Hawick on 1917 July 18th at Hawick".
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 for Walter Smail died 17 July 1917 in Hawick, comfirmation 29 August 1917 at Jedburgh. "Smail, Walter, 10 Duke Street, Hawick, died 17 July 1917, at Hawick, testate. Confirmation granted at Jedburgh, 29 August, to Walter Smail, Wool Agent, Galashiels, and John Ballantyne Smail, Mill Manager, Hawick, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 17 January 1914, and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Roxburgh, 29 August 1917. Value of Estate, £222, 5s."
There are some thirty one entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees with combinations of the above.
Walter Smail was the father of Walter Smail, husband of Lavinia Foster, Felicity's grandaunt.
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