Annie Louisa Hart/ Smith- Halesowen

[katy k]

 Seeking information about Annie Louisa Hart(known as louisa) born Twyning Glos in 1885 and died Halesowen about 1966.
 I have had no difficulties tracing The Hart family line  but am having problems with Annie Louisa's life  from just pre World war 1 to the 1930's. In particular in relation to her marriages.
I know she married twice .Once to William Smith  and once to Alfred Smith (no idea if they were related)
 Her son Ronald Alfred William Smith was born in 1922 (and died in 2010) and she may also  have lost a daughter - haven't found birth certificates.
By the 1930's she was a widow living with her son,two nieces and various lodgers at 39 Furnace Hill Halesowen.
There is a William H Smith on Halesowen war memorial which may be a possibility and I have been kindly directed to a book which may help with that but I cannot find for certain which husband was her first and which her second.
One of her husbands died in WW1 and the other, I believe, not too many years afterwards-possibly of war related injuries.His son did not remember him.
As Smith is such a common name I have been unable to trace war records so far.
Any help gratefully appreciated.

[rosie99]

Birth December qtr 1922
Ronald A W Smith - mothers maiden name  Hart   
Stourbridge reg district    6c   24

Possible sister of Ronald
Birth March qtr 1920   
Marjorie Smith - mothers maiden name Hart   
Stourbridge    6c   5    

Death September qtr 1920   
Marjorie Smith age  0   
Stourbridge    6c   9

[Margaret March]

If you get the birth certificate for Ronald born 1922 you will see which husband was the father. From that you will see her other names - it will say farmerly for her maiden name and lately for a previous married name  and hopefully that will help decide the order of the marriages
Margaret

[katy k]

Thank you.Wasn't sure if a second marriage cert would contain maiden name or previous marital name.

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

This looks like a possible marriage,


1912
SMITH William H
HART Annie L
Halesowen, St John the Baptist


The GRO index shows,

William H SMITH    Sep Q  1912    Stourbridge    6c  271
Spouse Surname:  HART

and then there is this possible marriage,

Annie L SMITH    Mar Q 1918    Birmingham    6d  491
Alfred SMITH

I wonder if she had any other children, 35 seems quite old to have the first one


Regards,
Daisy

[katy k]

Oh Thank you! how on Earth did I miss that? St Johns was the first place I looked!
she only had 2 children and only one survived.There were no children from her 1st marriage. She took in her sister Edith's children -my mother being one of them- as they were very little when Edith died.
She had already lost both her husbands by then.

[jim1]

A bit of extra info you might be interested in.
31015 Pte. William Henry Smith 9th. Batt. Worcs. Regt. fell on 25/1/1917 Mesopotamia (Iraq) fighting the Turkish Army at Kut-Al-Amara.
The War Gratuity list states his widow as Louisa L Smith.
He's buried at Al Basrah Iraq.

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

Just to add to the above info, at Ancestry the "UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929" there is the following,


SMITH  William Henry   
9th Bn Worcs  Pte 31015   
25.1.17 Mesop
Credits:  £2
15/12/17
To whom Authorised:  Wid Annie L


Daisy

[Daisypetal]

I think this could be the death of her second husband Alfred,


Alfred SMITH    Mar 1929    Stourbridge    6c  28
Age at Death:  50


England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

SMITH Alfred of 39 Furnace Hill, Halesowen, Worcestershire, died 26 March 1929. Administration Birmingham 23 May to Annie Louisa SMITH widow. Effects £56 17s 11d