Person:William Smith (1068)

William Christian Baumgarten SMITH was b. abt 1877 at Singapore (M. Jones). William Christian B. Smith marr Ethel Mary SEELY 2nd qtr 1908 at Mitford, Norfolk (bmd, M. Jones). William was a surgeon in RN (M. Jones). Ethel was b. 1878 at Aylsham, Norfolk, dau of Alfred (M. Jones). Ethel Mary Seely was chr 9feb1878, Norwich, and 17feb1878 at Reepham, Norfolk, dau of Alfred William Seely and Alice Anne (IGI); in 1881 and 1901 census her birth place was given as Kerdiston, Norfolk (census). Ethel Mary Seely was b. 1st qtr 1878 at Aylsham, which included “Reepham with Kerdiston” (bmd). In 1891 William C. Smith (1877) and Buchanan Smith (1880) (scholars, b. Singapore) boarded at Woolston, Hamps (census). In 1913 one son of W. Buchanan Smith was naval staff surgeon serving on the China station (obit of father, Straits Times).