Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
A diary she kept while in Stanley Camp has been posted online: https://gwulo.com/node/55801
A diary she kept while in Stanley Camp has been posted online: https://gwulo.com/node/55801
Comments
Raymond Walter Smith 1896 - 1976
1935 Passenger List London to Hong Kong
Raymond W Smith 39 engineer [Raymond Walter Smith born 22 July 1896 Hampton Middlesex son of Joseph John Smith and Grace Rosa Smith nee Belcher. He died 1976 in Cheltenham ]
Gertrude Smith 35 [born as Gertrude Anne Anton 16 April 1894 Nottinghamshire died in Cheltenham 1975] aka Pixie?
John Anton Smith 7 months
Marriage 1931 Quarter 3 Cheltenham
Raymond W Smith to Gertrude A Anton
Grace Rosa Smith nee Belcher 1863 - 1944
Birth Grace Rosa Belcher registered Quarter 3 1863 Kingston Surrey Died 14 January 1944 Stanley Camp
Grace Rose Smith
A slight discrepancy; the date of birth of the captioned lady is given as 1863, which means that at the time of her death in 1944 she would be 80 / 81.
Yet her headstone gives her age at death as 75. Presumably a mistake when it was made?
Grace Rosa (sic) Smith 1863 - 14 January 1944
UK Birth Index
Grace Rosa Belcher registered Quarter 3 1863 Kingston Surrey
1871 Census UK
Grace Rosa Belcher age 7 born Hampton Wick (Postal district Kingston)
Marriage 1890 St Marys Long Ditton
Joseph John Smith 33
Grace Rosa Belcher age 27
1901 Census Billton Warwickshire
Joseph J Smith 43 born Poplar
Grace R Smith 37 born Hampton Wick
1911 Census Bilton
Joseph John Smith 50 born Poplar
Grace Rosa Smith 45 born Hampton Wick
UK Foreign and Overseas Register
Date of death 19 January 1944 Cause chronic bacillary dysentery and cancer of the breast Information from Red Cross delegate Hong Kong
Date on headstone miscalculated . In 1944 she was 81. This is not uncommon when those present at a death do not know exact birth date or if person making the headstone makes a mistake.