Other Countries / Brasil - Matthew James Smeaton

[Audrey63]

Hi,
I wonder if anyone can offer me any insight into this one:
Matthew James Smeaton born 9/8/1875 Corrales, Huelva, Spain (British subject) to Peter Smeaton & Elizabeth Morrison. 

Married in Kensington, London 29/4/1899 (listed as a clerk) to Marie Amelia Jeanne Dussau

Daughter Amelie Elizabeth Eugenie Smeaton born 22/3/1900 London

I can't find them on the UK 1901 census but have found info from another tree saying that he died 10/01/1904 in Rio de Janeiro although I have no proof of this.

Any thoughts on how to get further with this line?

Thanks

[softly softly]

There's a Mr & Mrs Smeaton + 1 child travelling as below.

Mr Smeaton
Exact
Gender:   
Male
Departure Date:   
14 Sep 1900
Same Year
Departure Port:   
England
Ship Name:   
Nile
Destination Port:   
Montevideo, Uruguay

SS

[Milliepede]

You could ask the person with the tree where the death information came from. 

Is there any evidence of wife and child travelling back to England?

[softly softly]

SMEATON, MARIE  AMELIA JEANNE    81 
GRO Reference: 1953  J Quarter in SURREY NORTH-EASTERN  Volume 05G  Page 418

SS

[Audrey63]

Thanks for all your input. 

I have been able to track his wife, who was a French teacher, in various places in England from, 1904-1908 and 1929 onwards to her death in 1953 that you found too.
I'm not sure where I took the information from as regards to Matthews death! Was working on this a while ago and gave up so perhaps need to retrace my original steps....
The departure in 1900 to Uruguay could well be them because that would put them into the right part of the world but of course without their first names I can't prove that.

Matthew's father seemed to disappear without a trace so I was hoping if I could make some sense of what Matthew was doing in Rio maybe it would give me some pointers to his dad.

[Ashtone]

Could this be connected?

GRO Consular Death Indices (1849 To 1965)
1901-05
James Smeaton
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept 1874 marriage notice for Peter Smeaton (of Cádiz) and Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of the late James Morrison, Auchterarder (?) There are 1915 newspaper obits for a Peter Smeaton in Scotland.

Two additional births in Huelva, Spain 1876-1880:
Charles Smeaton and Lizzie Morrison Smeaton.
Also, a Thomas Smeaton born in Huelva 1901-1905.

Question: What is Peter Smeaton's occupation on his son's 1899 marriage certificate?

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SMEATON
PETER
aged 68
mother'smaiden name ROBERTSON
M
1915
387 / 77
PERTH

SS

[softly softly]

Birth?
SMEATON
PETER
PETER SMEATON/ELIZABETH ROBERTSON FR7350 (FR7350)
M
24/11/1846
387
280 / 137
PERTH

SS

[Ashtone]

There's a Charles Smeaton (born 1880 Spain) in the 1901 to 1921 census reports in the London area.
1901 - he's a Merchant's Clerk. 1911 - he's a Shorthand Typist. He's a boarder in 1901 and 1911.

1963 death for Lizzie Morrison Smeaton in Bromley, Kent.