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Hi all.

Please could someone be kind enough to look for a death for Ada Ellen Smart/Smartt sometime between 1901 & 1911? Her husband George appears as a widower in 1911 census - I'm assuming he was telling the truth!

It's probably staring me in the face, but I just can't see it.

Thanks in advance.

Here she is in 1901.

Name: Ada E Smartt
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872

Spouse: George Smartt
Birth Place: Shorehampton, Gloucestershire, England
Civil Parish: Leamington Priors

Town: Leamington
County/Island: Warwickshire

Registration district: Warwick
Sub-registration district: Leamington

George Smartt 32
Ada E Smartt 29
William G Smartt 7
Ada E Smartt 6
Cyril H Smartt 1

I can't find a death for her either. Maybe they just separated?

I can't find any trace of her in the 1939 register either.

The nearest death is this one (different area though so probably not the one - different spelling of the surname too):-


First name(s) ELLEN
Last name SMART
Gender Female
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1872
Age 36
Death quarter 3
Death year 1908
District Bolton
County Lancashire
Volume 8C
Page 250
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Kath. x

Sorry, I can't see her death (unless the Bolton one is correct), nor anywhere in 1911, even searching without surname in case she'd gone off with someone else.

Marriages Jun 1889 (>99%)
Kibbler Ada Ellen Meriden 6d 569 Scan available - click to view
Smartt George Meriden 6d 569

Births Dec 1869 (>99%)
Kibbler Ada Ellen Clifton 6a 147

Thanks very much for looking. Not just me then! I wonder what became of her? I'll probably never know! :)

Maybe she took up with someone else and took their surname

We know this happened to hubby's paternal grandmother who never married his grandfather but moved on to several different men . So I am told from descendents of her siblings

Know too she died c1931 and in a Birmingham hospital but haven't been able to pinpoint her as she must have lied about her age too

One of those ?? that stays a mystery

Annoying cos I like to tie up the loose ends too

You may already have it but there is quite a lengthy article re Ada stealing sausages in the Leamington Spa Courier 24 February 1900.

Name: Ada Ellen Kibbler
Baptism Date: 7 Nov 1869
Baptism Place: Shirehampton, St Mary, Gloucestershire, England
Father: Daniel Kibbler
Mother: Sally Kibbler

You're probably right Shirley.

But - AustinQ - I had no idea about that!! Wow, thank you so much.

There's also a homeless woman Ada Smart arrested for being drunk & disorderly in 1924, I wonder! :-(

There's no sign of her with a different surname in 1911.


Another vaguely possible death to add to Kath's Bolton one:

Ada E Smart
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Ada E Smart
Death Age: 56
Birth Date: abt 1870
Registration Date: Dec 1926
Registration district: Bradford
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9b
Page: 159

The 1926 death appears to bve an Ada ELIZA :

SMART, ADA ELIZA 56 Order
GRO Reference: 1926 D Quarter in BRADFORD Volume 09B Page 159

Dea x

Thanks for checking Argyllgran & Dea. I guess she's going to remaiin a mystery!