Who ARE all you lovely people LOL? Just stumbled on this thread from four years ago and haven't had a chance yet to sift through it all. George Herbert Smith was my great grandfather through his son Tom Herbert who emigrated to Canada, where I live. This was before WWI. Tom Herbert had six children in Canada who survived infancy, five who had children, grandchildren and in some cases great grandchildren. TH also worked for a time as a journalist, but eventually went into business where he got into a spot of bother with stock fiddling in the 20s or 30s and, according to family legend, did jail time. (Still tracking that down.) Some of you, or more likely your parents, might remember my mother, Betty Smith, who kept in touch with cousins until near the end of her life and visited with them in England starting during WWII when she was over there with the air force. I have, I think, most of the readily available genealogical info on George and Kate alluded to here. I also have a scrapbook of accounts of George Herbert's death in a pedestrian-automobile accident in 1927, and the resulting funeral and tributes - including from the King and Queen, with whom GH was fairly tight because of his work as a court reporter (and also, according to family legend, because he was one of the then Prince of Wales' by-blows.) I plan eventually to make this material available online. Love to hear from other Smith relatives in England or elsewhere.
