Looking for Norman Smith 1893 - 1950 - Walsall

[mckha489]

Well done!
That must be him. He is the manager of the Picturedrome, Crescent Road, Darlaston.

(So the first newspaper clip I posted at #4 is him, but not the second. )


Added, lucky they got the “orman” part. His N is very fancy with a tail.

[mckha489]

Well…..
Wakefield birth for Norman (no second name)  has MMN HUNT

Baptism at Wakefield, Holy Trinity, 23 July 1893
Norman Lewis/Louis son of Aaron Leece Smith, teacher of music, and Emily
Address 14 Hartley Yard,

Marriage

Marriages Dec 1890   
Smith    Aaron Teece        Wakefield    9c   97

[Sally4x]

I only have free indexes, but 1921 census may be
In Darlaston
Gorman Smith, age 27 years 11 months, born Wakefield, Yorkshire
Mary Alice Smith, 27 years 9 months, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Mary Iris Smitten, 2 years 7 months, Darlaston, Staffordshire

That's him! Thanks so much!

[mckha489]

Image for that marriage is on Ancestry indexed as Leece

It does look like Teece.

Aaron is 29 a widower, teacher of music, father also Aaron iron worker
Emily Hunt 21, father George a miner.

Witnesses William Thomas Thresh, George Ernest Thresh

[mckha489]

Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46296508/aaron-teece-smith?_gl=1*1cjitqw*_gcl_au*MTY3MDQ5NjY2MS4xNzM0NzYzMTk0*_ga*NTI5MjEyODk2LjE3MTkxMDE2Njg.*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NmU2YjVhYjEtYzRiZS00OWZhLTgzMGEtNDVjM2I0ODU2OGVlLjY3My4xLjE3Mzc0OTE4MjUuNDkuMC4w*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*NmU2YjVhYjEtYzRiZS00OWZhLTgzMGEtNDVjM2I0ODU2OGVlLjY3NC4xLjE3Mzc0OTE4MjUuMC4wLjA.

[mckha489]

Hmm, or…am I going up a garden path?

Was Aaron Teece actually divorced/separated/a bigamist rather than a widower?

He seems to have been previously married to Elizabeth Harvey. Two children Aaron Teece Smith  & Prudence Harvey Smith.
And they, with their mother are in Boraston, Shropshire in 1891 (after the 1890 marriage)

[Sally4x]

It sure looks like it! If only Norman's real father's name was on his marriage certificate and not Henry Smith. You have no idea how many Henry Smiths I discounted!

Thanks to all - I have my answers.

[mckha489]

Norman Smith seems an interesting man.
At the Picturedrome from at least September 1919

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/328f6e7f-0f2f-4e85-b548-cb7d96ef4950

I would be wanting to get my hands on some of those pamphlets if he was in my extended family

[mckha489]

This fits with the findagrave entry posted earlier
And names some more brothers

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/0d5df764-e900-4cf4-99b9-1f84247e9c85