Hi, would someone be able to help me find out weather or not the roumor is true. It has been circulating within the family for ages but know one actually knows what happened to him. The roumor was that the father Alfred G T SMITH left the family soon after the last son was born, The mother was left alone with a lodger, she then started dating this lodger and illegally changed all the childrens names from Temple-Smith to "Purcell" this was later found out to the children as the mother already had a child living with her and known who the real father was. He then told the children what their real fathers name was and some changed their names back to Temple-Smith but in respect of the father my great granddad took changed his name to his real dad and the person who had brought him up, he changed his name to Temple-Purcell. He have his children these names also. ALL THIS IS TURE.
But apparently the father of the children (who left the children, for what ever reason, maybe she cheated on him with this "Purcell" lodger because she seemed to have got with him SUPER quick. either way the rumour is the father Alfred G T SMITH remarried and had his own family in CANADA. I thought this was nonsense as I have never found any factual information or evidence to support this claim. I let this go for a good while without death certificates and without knowledge of what happened to him.
Today when I was searching his son "WALTER TEMPLE-SMITH" who had took his wife and daughter to Canada. It says on the record that he was going to Halifax, Canada. It also showed another bit of information that showed his contact in Canada was his father (temple-smith). It give his address at RR2 malton, Ontrio . The date he left was 3 Feb 1947. The date they come back to England was 20th Mar 1947. I was wondering with this newly found information, would someone be able to help me find any links to what might have happened to Alfred G T Smith who apparently went to Canada and started a new life over their.
Kindest Regards
Andrew
Ps; ALFRED G T SMITH (I believe he would have double barrelled his name to temple-smith as this is what normally happened in our family, he also used Temple Smith on the marriage to his first wife in England). His birth was 3 Mar 1873, Southampton, Hampshire, England. This would have made him around about 74 when his son Walter and his family visited him. Maybe he went over their for a funeral? this is the only bit of information I have on him. If you would like any more information please let me know and I will see what I can do.
