Sydney John Smith 1923

[maggie.mae]

Hello again, keyboard, got more info. Her father Sydney was born Bath Somerset. I have a birth reg,March q.1923 Long Ashton Somerset, mother's maiden name "West" I will have to send for cert to get the info I need.
Good fun this family history!!
Maggie

[keyboard86]

There are a couple of birth registrations c 1923 Bath/Long Ashton also in Long Ashton mmn West a Herbert R Smith 1920 who dies1924 aged 4 Long Ashton 5c 636 aged 4
Keyboard86

[rosie99]

Can you put a cropped image of the fathers name on here in case anyone can make sense of it

[Kay99]

There is a possible marriage of  Horace Valentine West to Ada Louise West
Marriages Sept Qtr 1902   Edmonton    3a   928   

Kay

Added marriage online on Anc and he was an engineer age 20 at the time   father William Valentine Smith- deceased - Bottle stoppers?

Maybe in 1891 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3RQ3-MT2

[Kay99]

Possible marriage for parents online on Anc

5 Dec 1881- Gray's Inn Road Holy Trinity, Camden
William Valentine Smith age 55 widower -bottle dealer - father William Smith(deceased) in service
Annie Louisa Morris 30 - father Alfred Morris (deceased) chemist

Edit - Maybe the wrong family as there is a death for a Horace Valentine Smith age 28
1910  Sept  Qrtr  RISBRIDGE  Vol 04A  Page 344 

[maggie.mae]

Many thanks everyone. I'll let you know what the birth cert says.
Maggie

[maggie.mae]

Well, I don't know what to make of this.....Birth cert has no father named. Mother Ada Louisa Smith nee West.1st March 1923 Highdale Place Clevedon Somerset. I think it is "Horace Valentine Smith" on the marriage cert.
My friend has said that when his father died, his mother went to Wales to be a housekeeper approx. 1925 and subsequently married the man  she was housekeeping for.
KAY99- If the 1902 marriage is a possible she would have been in her 40's when she had Sydney.
Can anyone find the death of Horace around 1923.

[Kay99]

Very interesting that no father was named on Sydney's birth cert.  I would have thought his mother would have named Sydney's father if he had only just died.

I agree if the 1902 was the correct marriage cert for Sydney's parents his mother Ada Louisa West/Smith would have in in her early 40's by the time Sydney was born and it floored me when I found a death of his possible father pre 1911!!  Based on an Anc tree with the same family but doesn't have children for Horace/Ada post 1911 I think this may be Ada Louisa in 1911 listed as a widow  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW4J-V2R

I can't see a death of another Horace V Smith between 1910 and 1923

Kay

[keyboard86]

Hi all the birth of a Frederick Horace Smith March qtr 1903 Edmonton mmn West, leads to an interesting marriage to a John Richards of an Ada L Smith in 1925?
Keyboard86

1925 Pontypridd
Frederick H b 1902 could be in the school/hospital I know very well at Chase Farm, The Ridgeway, Enfield in 1911?
Keyboard86