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Thomas Smith

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Death: March 11, 1914 (70-71)
Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Place of Burial: Row 33 Plot 294, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Immediate Family:

Son of John Smith and Eliza Smith (Nash)
Husband of Ellen Smith and Ellen Usley Smith
Father of Samuel Robert William Smith; Agnes Jessie Round; Ethel Janet Bastin; Austin Jowsey Gregg Smith; Richard James Seddon Smith and 17 others
Brother of Private; Roda (Rhoda) Smith; Eliza Smith; Martin Sidney Smith; George Smith and 1 other

Occupation: Flour Miller
Managed by: Private User
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About Thomas Smith

Thomas SMITH arrived in NZ on the ship ‘Matoaka’, with his parents and his grandfather. Assisted Immigration to Canterbury (‘Matoaka’ Manifest 1860, Archives, NZ, Chch Office).

Thomas is buried in Timaru cemetery, block D2 plot 294. There were 6 children in his second family; 2 female, 4 male. On his death certificate their ages are shown to be 17 & 15 for the females and 18, 13, 11 and 6 yrs for the males.

Despite the two families Thomas had, no males have descendants to carry on the SMITH name.

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Thomas Smith's Timeline

1843
1843
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
1868
1868
New Zealand
1869
1869
New Zealand
1871
1871
New Zealand
1872
November 9, 1872
New Zealand
1874
April 30, 1874
Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand
1875
October 1875
Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand
1877
February 2, 1877
Rangiora, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
1878
July 1, 1878
Malvern, Christchurch, New Zealand