Reginald John Walker Smith (1896 - 1988)

Born 4 Jan 1896 in Weymouth, Dorset, England

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Died 20 Jun 1988 at age 92 in Dorchester, Dorset, England

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Biography

• 1896 Born 4 January in Lennox Street, Weymouth
• 1896 Baptised 19 Feb st St Johns Church, Weymouth
• 1901 to 1911 lived at 47 Avenue Road, Weymouth
• Worked as a grocer all his life, mainly in Weymouth, but for a short period in Dorchester
• Served in the Dorset Yeomanry in Egypt during WW1
• 1925 to late 1930s lived at 25 Brownlow Street, Weymouth
• 1936 to 1984 lived at 3 Waverley Road, Weymouth
• 1984 moved to Adare House, Bincleaves Road, Weymouth
• 1988 Probate granted 28 July

Sources

• Personal knowledge Janet Thorpe
• England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 25 May 2020), database entry for Smith, Reginald John Walker (mother’s maiden Walker), GRO Reference: 1896 M Quarter in WEYMOUTH Volume 05A Page 270 and birth certificate
• Baptism certificate
• 1901 Census "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS47-TPT : 8 April 2016), Reginald Smith in household of Charles Smith, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Upway subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
• 1911 Census "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7K5-SL6 : 2 August 2017), Reginald Smith in household of Charles Smith, Melcombe Regis, , Dorsetshire, England; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• FreeBMD (marriage spouse Delaney) [1]
• Marriage certificate
• 1939 Index [2] subscription required
• England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 25 May 2020), database entry for Smith, Reginald John Walker year of birth 1896 : GRO Reference: DOR Q2/1988 in WEYMOUTH (4331) Volume 23 Page 960
• Probate [3] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright. subscription required