Thank you Shaun J, K Garrard, and Janan, for all your delving and diving to dig up this man's history.
Wow! Now why am I not surprised? Because there have been suspicious events emerging from time to time e.g., his father, JBS Snr., a Soiicitor in Dartmouth, left all his estate to JBS Jnr, overseen by JBS.Jnr (illegal these days) and the other 9 children were left his affection and love! I need to check again on his probate but that's the way it went. Also the youngest brother William Smith, became Mayor of Dartmouth and at his death brother JBS Jnr (if he was still alive) was not present nor even mentioned among all the family members, dead or alive in the long Obituary!!!
My big mistake was not noticing the age of the Ann in the Census, the first wife was Ann Norah Batten, born 1816 at Leadenhall Market in London, so she would be about the same age as JBS Jnr.
I think the fact that there was a daughter whom none of us here in N.Z. had even heard of threw me!
Also, I had wondered if her headstone in St. Pancras Cemetery also had 'dear hubby' on it! Fat chance! A photo of Ann N Smith was sent to me by a wonderful Office Attendant at the cemetery (after my long 'sob story' about being so far away) but as the wilderness obscured a lot of it any script was unreadable.
So thanks to you all, I can now start tracing him in Scotland!! I am impressed with the way you were able to dig up his misdeeds, where did you look for that?
Thanks once again to you all for your time and effort - I really appreciate it as now I'm 83, I will not be able to travel to the UK in the future.
Faith