Herbert George Smith & Jessie Tivey - great-grandparents
Herbert George Smith was born on 31 May 1909 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Jessie Tivey was born on 7 May 1910 in St. Pancras, London.
Herbert and Jessie married on 23 January 1932 in Walton-on-Thames. They lived in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex before emigrating to New South Wales, Australia in 1957. They first lived in Orange before moving to Miami, Queensland, where Jessie died in 1976. Herbert later remarried and after briefly living in Tasmania settled in Bomaderry, on the New South Wales south coast. He died there in 1992 aged 83 and is buried in the Shoalhaven Lawn Cemetery.
Children: Patrick George Smithm. Nadine Ann Whittle Jennifer Ellen Smith m. Ferdinand Cornelius Boers
Herbert Smith's baptism form from 1909. The family are living at Church Walk and his father is working as a grocer's assistant. This details are consistent with both the 1901 and 1911 censuses. A very odd detail is the Godparents listed: they appear to simply be Herbert's parents, with his mother listed twice! Maybe more research is needed to see how common it would be for the parents to also act as Godparents. Alternatively, it's possible that they simply hadn't decided on any Godparents yet and just wrote the parents names in. Still seems a strange thing to do.