Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGarnet Leonard SMITH, 2C1R
Birth20 Jun 1923, Willesden, Middlesex
Death6 Jun 2004, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England
FatherCecil Frederick SMITH (1889-1941)
MotherAugusta Barbara SYMONDSON (1891-1941)
Notes for Garnet Leonard SMITH
Middle name from Doyle Mander Millington Smith Tree at ancestry.co.uk by ldoyle
In the July to September 1923 birth index Garnet L. Smith, mother’s maiden name Symondson, Willesden, volume 3a, page 507.
from Laughter in the Air by Georgina Morgan (nee Symondson)
One night during the London Blitz, the house of another sister of my father [Augusta Barbara] received a direct hit. For safety, the three youngest children still living at home - Garnet, Ernest and Patrica - had been placed underneath the stairs and were unharmed. But the rest of the house was destroyed, and the bodies of my aunt and uncle were blown to bits. The following morning, Ernest, aged about twelve or thirteen discovered his father’s leg in the rubble. The older sister was in Canada, and their older brother, who was also called Norman, was abroad in ther army. Recalled on compassionate leave, he was at a loss to know what to do with the three orphaned children. Auntie Connie offered to look after them and they moved into her house on Vicarage Road [Willesden]
Also he joined the Signals Corps
London electoral Registers 1946
89 Vicarage Road, Willesden
Ernest W. Arnley [this is his stage name, Alfred’s brother]
Constance W. Barge [Alfred’s sister]
Garnet L. Smith [Alfred’s nephew, son of sister Augusta]
Amy B. H. Symondson
Alfred V. Symondson
Frederick Thornton [Constance’s son in law]
Phyllis M. Thornton [Constance’s daughter]
In the June 2004 death index Garnet Leonard Smith, born June 20, 1923, died age 81, Middlesbrough, county Cleveland [now North Yorkshire] , Register C18A, district 348/1C, entry 242
England and Wales death index Garnet Leonard Smith born June 20 1923, died June 6 2004, Redcar, Yorkshire.[Redcar is in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland.]
In the July to September 1923 birth index Garnet L. Smith, mother’s maiden name Symondson, Willesden, volume 3a, page 507.
from Laughter in the Air by Georgina Morgan (nee Symondson)
One night during the London Blitz, the house of another sister of my father [Augusta Barbara] received a direct hit. For safety, the three youngest children still living at home - Garnet, Ernest and Patrica - had been placed underneath the stairs and were unharmed. But the rest of the house was destroyed, and the bodies of my aunt and uncle were blown to bits. The following morning, Ernest, aged about twelve or thirteen discovered his father’s leg in the rubble. The older sister was in Canada, and their older brother, who was also called Norman, was abroad in ther army. Recalled on compassionate leave, he was at a loss to know what to do with the three orphaned children. Auntie Connie offered to look after them and they moved into her house on Vicarage Road [Willesden]
Also he joined the Signals Corps
London electoral Registers 1946
89 Vicarage Road, Willesden
Ernest W. Arnley [this is his stage name, Alfred’s brother]
Constance W. Barge [Alfred’s sister]
Garnet L. Smith [Alfred’s nephew, son of sister Augusta]
Amy B. H. Symondson
Alfred V. Symondson
Frederick Thornton [Constance’s son in law]
Phyllis M. Thornton [Constance’s daughter]
In the June 2004 death index Garnet Leonard Smith, born June 20, 1923, died age 81, Middlesbrough, county Cleveland [now North Yorkshire] , Register C18A, district 348/1C, entry 242
England and Wales death index Garnet Leonard Smith born June 20 1923, died June 6 2004, Redcar, Yorkshire.[Redcar is in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland.]