Frederick Smith and his family lived at No. 3 between 1881 and 1891.[1] Frederick Smith was born at Cambridge in October 1845, son of Charles Amos Smith and his wife Elizabeth Chapman.[2] He was a schoolmaster in Cambridge, recorded there in the 1871 census,[3] before taking up a post at Dollar Academy. Shortly after moving to Edinburgh and taking up residence at No. 3, he was described as an artist (‘oil colour’)[4] and as a teacher of science.[5]
In 1882, Frederick Smith entered the Edinburgh Theological College. He was ordained into the Episcopal Church in 1888, when he became a chaplain at St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth. He served as rector of St Luke’s Glasgow between 1890 and 1895, and private chaplin to the Hon. Arthur Hay Drummond at Cromlix 1895 to 1901.[6] At the time of the 1901 Census the family was living at The Limes, Dunblane,[7] but in the same year Fred Smith became priest in charge at South Queensferry, where he remained until he retired in 1917. Between 1915 and 1918 he was also a chaplain to the Royal Navy and Naval Hospital.[8] On his retirement, he deputised for the rector at Clifton, Nottingham and he died at Mapperley, Nottingham on 5 October 1931.[9]
As well as publishing several text books for schools, he was a keen student of stone tools and early man in Scotland and author of The Stone Ages in North Britain and Ireland (1909).[10]
Frederick Smith married Emily Mary Baker (b. at Cambridge) in 1870.[11] She was the daughter of John Baker, a naturalist, and Emily Branford, born at Downham, Norfolk in 1847.[12] She died in Nottingham on 23 December 1926.[13]
Frederick Smith and Emily Baker had seven children. Five of the children were recorded at No. 3 in the 1881 census, and the sixth was born there shortly after the census. The youngest, Evelyn P. Smith, was born in Glasgow after the family’s departure from Malta Terrace. The children were:
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- Frederick Hugh Smith who was born at Cambridge on 03 May 1871[14] and described in the 1939 register as an inventor and master engineer.[15]
- Cuthbert Coates Smith, born at Perth on 25 July 1875.[16] He died in Surrey in 1953.[17]
- Mabel Margaret Smith was born at Dollar in 1877.[18]
- Godfrey Henry James Smith was born at Dollar in 1878.[19]
- Charles Kingsley Smith was born at Dollar in 1880.[20]
- Dorothy Mary Smith was born at No. 3 Malta Terrace on 15 August 1881.[21]
- Evelyn Fredericka Smith was born in Glasgow on 11 July 1892[22] and died in Nottingham in 1974.[23]
[1] PO Directories 1881-82 to 1890-91.
[2] Births index (CR) England. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 4th Q., 1845. SMITH, Frederick. vol. 14, p. 02. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021. Baptisms (PR) England. St Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge. 18 October 1845. SMITH, Frederick. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[3] Census records. England. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 02 April 1871. SMITH, Frederick (Head). RG10/1585/4, p.01. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[4] Census records. Scotland. Edinburgh. 03 April 1881. SMITH, Frederick (Head). 685/1 117, p. 10. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[5] Births (CR) Scotland. 05 September 1881. SMITH, Dorothy Mary. 685/1 1596. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[6] David M. Bertie, editor (2000) Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000. Edinburgh: T&T Clark; p. 442.
[7] Census records. Scotland. Dunblane, Perthshire. 31 March 1901. SMITH, Emily M. 348/ 03. P. 17. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[8] Obituary in West Lothian Courier, 23 October 1931. p. 06, col. 04. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[9] Nottingham Journal, 9 October 1931. p. 09, col. 06. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[10] David M. Bertie, editor (2000) Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000. Edinburgh: T&T Clark; p. 442.
[11] Marriages index (CR) England. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 3rd Q., 1870. SMITH, Frederick and BAKER, Emily Mary. vol. 3b, p. 784. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[12] Births index (CR) England. Downham, Norfolk. 4th Q., 1847. BAKER, Emily Ann Mary. vol. 13, p. 63. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021. Census records. England. St Benedict, Cambridge. 07 April 1851. BAKER, John (Head). HO107/1760/416, p. 06. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[13] Deaths index (CR) England. Nottingham. 4th Q., 1926. SMITH, Emily M. (aged 79). vol. 7b, p. 374. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021. Deaths announcements. 1926. Nottingham Evening Post. 27 December 1926. p. 05, col. 05. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[14] Births index (CR) England. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 2nd Q., 1871. SMITH, Frederick Hugh. vol.3b, p. 493. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[15] Census records. England. Nottingham. 29 September 1939. SMITH, Frederick H. (Head). RG 101/6190D. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[16] Births index (SR) Scotland. Perth, Perthshire. 1875. SMITH, Cuthbert Coates. 387/ 531. https://scotlandspeople.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021. Census records. England. Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. 29 September 1939. SMITH, Coates C. (Head). RG 101/1350G. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[17] Deaths index (CR) England. Surrey North. 3rd Q., 1953. SMITH, Cuthbert C. (aged 77). Vol. 5g, 251. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[18] Births index (SR) Scotland. Dollar, Clackmannanshire. 1877. SMITH, Mabel Margaret. 467/ 25. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[19] Births index (SR) Scotland. Dollar, Clackmannanshire. 1878. SMITH, Godfrey Henry J. 467/ 33. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[20] Births index (SR) Scotland. Dollar, Clackmannanshire. 1880. SMITH, Charles Kingsley. 467/ 37. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[21] Births (SR) Scotland. Edinburgh. 05 September 1881. SMITH, Dorothy Mary. 685/1 1596. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[22] Births index (SR) Scotland. St Rollox, Glasgow. 1892. SMITH, Evelyn Frederica. 644/6 1159. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.
[23] Deaths index (SR) England. Nottingham. 2nd Q., 1974. SMITH Evelyn Fredericka. vol. 08, p. 0664. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 04 July 2021.