57.12 Maternal Cousins of Alice Wheaver (née Lambert)

Richard and Elizabeth Barnard had two children. Their grandchildren are Alice's first cousins.

• 50.2.1 - Mary Ann Barnard (1844-1891)
• See Chapter 50

• 50.2.2 - Betsy Barnard (1845-1929) m James Smart (1846-1921)

• Clarence Arthur Smart (1869-1950)
• 1891/1891/1911: At home in Newport. Piano tuner etc. Then also organist.
• 1939: Boarder in Woking, Surrey. My photos of Woking are here.

Woking church (my photo)

• James Barnard Smart (1871-1957)

James Barnard Smart

• 1891: At home in Newport. Clerk in ironworks
• Married Elizabeth Fanny Nicholls (1877-1948) in Marylebone in 1895
• He was a professor of music, and they lived at 14 Cobden Street, Leeds
• Children:
• Beatrice Elizabeth Smart (1895)
• Walter John Smart (1898)
• Dorothy Jane Smart (1903)
• Guy James Smart (1905)
• Winifred Frances Smart (1909)
• 1911: 79 Whitegate Road, Southend. Professor of music and pianist at Palace Hotel. 
• Originally named the Metropole, the Palace Hotel was built in 1901. It was one of the last great Edwardian Hotels, and at the time the only 5* hotel on the southeast coast. It had 200 bedrooms, a billiard room and a magnificent ballroom. During the First World War it was temporarily converted into Queen Mary's Royal Naval Hospital and treated over 4,000 soldiers. As they recovered from their injuries, the soldiers would gather on the balconies of the hotel to look out over the pier and seafront. They became something of an attraction, with dozens of people gathering underneath to pass tobacco, sweets, flowers and even buttons up to the soldiers. (Visit Southend)

  

  Palace Hotel (Visit Southend)

  

  Palace Hotel, Southend (my photo)
• Divorced in 1912
• Married Florence Maud Gascoigne (1865-1927) in Hampstead in 1914
• Married Dorothy Trevethan (1895-1981) in Cardiff in 1933
• 1939: 8 Rockfield Avenue, Monmouth. Auctioneer's clerk.
• Died in Monmouth

"He has composed several piano pieces (published by Ashdown's, Leonard's, Evans, & c.), also several marches for orchestra, as well as organ music, and is well known in London as a pianist and organist, having played in all the principal restaurant orchestras. Mr Smart introduced to the public his own orchestras in the year 1915, and was also appointed bandmaster to the Deal Corporation for the season. The following year, he was engaged on the West Pier, Brighton, with his West End Orchestra [ed. The inaugural season for its Concert Hall], and in 1917 he was appointed musical director at the Southport Pier, with a ladies' orchestra - he named it the "Imperial Ladies' Orchestra" - which proved a huge success, and is now recognised as one of the very best in England. 

Brighton West Pier, c 1900 (credit)

Brighton West Pier in 2014 (my photo)

"Mr Smart is also the director and solo organiser of a first-class military band in London, composed entirely of ex-Service men, and he gets a very good share of private balls, dances, and other functions all over the country. For two years - 1900-2 - he was private organist to the Duchess of Sutherland. 

"Mr Smart has accompanied on the piano many of our well-known vocalists, including the late Edward Lloyd, Messrs Ben Davies, Walter Hyde, Mme Clara Butt & c., with distinction at various concerts. He has also held the post of organist at several London churches, and given organ recitals at most of them. He has many times played before Royalty, especially the Duke and Duchess of Fife. 

"Mr Smart has a charming personality, and is on the very best of terms with all the members of the various orchestras and bands he controls; this is evidently one of the reasons of his success." The Era 28 Dec 1922 (with thanks to 123_ancestry on Ancestry)

• Henry Percy Smart (1872-1900)
• Died at age 29

• Ernest William Smart (1874-1952)
• 1901. Boarder at 7 James Place, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury. Clerk at army pay office.
• Married Helen Louise Davies (1884) in  Atcham nr Shrewsbury in 1907
• He was a civilian clerk at the army pay department discharge depot Gosport (!)
• Children:
• Marjorie Edna Barnard Smart (1911)
• They retired to 'Belgrave', Mount Street, Shrewsbury

Atcham Church by a flooded River Severn (Paul Beaman)

• Constance Betsy Smart (1875-1950)
• Had not left home, nor had an occupation by 1911 (35)
• 1939: Boarding at 51 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. Nurse. The bridge is question crosses the Rheidol, and she was a short stroll from the beach, and about a mile from Bronglais Hospital. The Hospital saw wartime service: there is a story on the BBC People's War about a casualty and a nurse finding love in the linen cupboard.
• Died in Cardigan

• John Archibald Smart (1881-1952)
• 1901/11: At home in Newport. Assisting his father with his music business.
• Married Eliza Walker (1888-1961)
• Children:
• Bessie Jane Smart (1907)
• Served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in WWI from January 1918.
• Died in Shrewsbury.

More information on these individuals in Chapter 57.

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