Birth: 2 October 1895 Whitechapel, London, UK
Father: Thomas Smith 1864-1944
Mother: Elizabeth Reid 1873-1954
Marriage: 6 June 1925 St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, London, UK
Wife: Eva Frances Taylor 1895-1983
Death: 13 August 1992 Silverlands, Wellington Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Greater London, UK
Geoffrey B George Smith 1926-2017
Anthony Edmund Smith 1929-1998
Birth of Edmund Smith in FreeBMD in October-December 1895 in Whitechapel (1c 312).
In the 1901 census as Edmund Smith aged 5, born in Whitechapel, London, and living with his parents (Thomas and Elizabeth), and two sisters (Lily and Mabel) at 11 G Block, Goodmans Fields, Whitechapel, London.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 for Edmund Smith born in October 1895, father Thomas Smith of Arbour, admitted to Dempsey Street School on 24 August 1903.
In the 1911 census as Edmund Smith aged 15, born in Whitechapel and living with his parents (Thomas and Elizabeth), and two sisters (Lily and Mabel) in five rooms at 16 West Arbour St, Stepney E, Mile End Old Town, London.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 for Edmund Smith aged 20 years 2 months, parents Thomas and Elizabeth Smith of 16 West Arbour St, Stepney E, a tally clerk, enlisted as 175989 Royal Engineers on 10 December 1915, height 5 ft 11 in, chest 35.5in - 2.5 in, transfered to Army Reserve 11 December 1915, joined in Chatham 6 September 1916, injured in service 2 October 1916 and 28 February 1918, demobilised 15 April 1919.
Entry in Ancestry the UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for Edmund Smith Sapper 175989 WO 329 Royal Engineers, awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Entry in Ancestry England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 for Edmund Smith, aged 24, a clerk of Stepney, initiated 19 March 1920 at George Green Lodge (3510), passed, 12 May, raised 19 November.
Six entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edmund Smith address 16 Arbour Street, Mile End Old Town, Stepney, Tower Hamlets from 1918 to 1925, other occupants Thomas and Elizabeth Smith (parents?).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for Edmund Smith and Eva Frances Taylor on 24 May 1925-28 at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Tower Hamlets. "May 10 17 24 Edmund Smith [aged] 29 Bachelor Parish of St Thomas Stepney [and] Eva Frances Taylor [aged] 30 Spinster [of] 85 White Horse Street"
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for Edmund Smith and Eva Frances Taylor on 24 May 1925 at St Thomas, Portman Square, Ealing, England "Page 168 The Year 1925 No. 502 Banns of Marriage between Edmund Smith of this Parish and Eva Frances Taylor of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney were published as follows:- 1st Time, Sunday May 10 [...] 2nd Time Sunday May 17 [...] 3rd Time Sunday May 24".
Marriage of Edmund Smith and Eva F Taylor in FreeBMD in April-June 1925 in Limehouse (1c 515).
His first son was born in Romford in 1926 and second in Ilford in 1929.
Entry in Ancestry 1939 England and Wales Register as Edmund Smith born 2 October 1875 (sic - in the index 95 on the original), married, an inspector at P L A Docks and ARP (Port of London Authority), and living with Eva F Smith (wife?) at 67 Henley Road, Ilford, Essex. His children were living with his parents at 108 Tankerton R, Whitstable, Kent.
His wife died on 2 September 1983 in Hatch, Pinner.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Edmund Smith, born 2 October 1895, in August 1992 in Harrow (12 1372).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Edmond (sic) Smith died 13 August at Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex probate 7 September 1992 in Oxford. "Smith, Edmond of "Silverlands" Wellington Road Hatch End Pinner Middlesex died 13 August 1992 Probate Oxford 7 September £26633."
There are twelve entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edmund Smith.
Edmund Smityh was the grandfather of Timothy Richard Smith, husband of Brita Freda Heavers, my second cousin once removed.
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