Daoine Pharaig
Peter's People
Family Group Sheet
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Husband Andrew Smart [AN010] |
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Born |
21 May 1871, Rait, Perthshire, Scotland (B/363/1871/9 Kilspindie) |
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Chr. |
05 Jul 1871, Errol Free Church, Perthshire, Scotland |
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Married |
08 Dec 1905, Little Powgavie, Inchture, Perthshire, Scotland (Estabd. CoS Banns) (M/1905/395/00/1 Inchture) |
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Died |
16 Mar 1940, age 68 years, 4.50 a.m., Crosslea, The Cross, Errol, Perthshire,
Scotland (Apoplexy hemiplegia; arterio-sclerosis) (D/1940/351/1//7 Errol) (the residence of his son-in-law and his
daughter.) |
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Buried |
Inchture Churchyard, Perthshire. Funeral to Inchture Churchyard,
Tuesday 19 March 1940, arriving 2.30 p.m. [Death notice: The Courier and Advertiser, Dundee, Monday 18 March 1940, p.8 col. F.] |
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Husband’s Father Andrew Smart [AN020] (Labourer; [Traction] Engine Driver, 1905) |
Husband’s Mother Margaret Campbell
[AN021] |
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Other wives: none |
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Notes: Ploughman, 1905. Was working asa ploughman on New Mains farm and living at New Mains Farm cottages, Inchture at time of death of wife Cecilia in 1930. Living at Kiersland, Errol village later in 1930s; from there, carried on stretcher to daughter Mary’s house, Crosslea, where died.
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Wife Cecilia Deans McLaren Wanliss [AN011] |
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Born |
03 Mar 1882, Oudenarde, Dunbarney & Dron parish, Perthshire, Scotland
(B/347/1882/5 Dunbarney) |
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Chr. |
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Died |
10 Feb 1930, aged 47 years, Royal Infirmary, Dundee, Scotland; usual residence. New Mains, Inchture, Perthshire (carcinoma of pylorus) (D/282-2/1930/99 St Clement Dundee) |
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Buried |
Inchture Churchyard, Perthshire. Funeral from D.R.I. to Inchture Churchyard, on Wednesday 05 February 1940, arriving 2.30 p.m. [Death notice, The Courier and Advertiser, Dundee, Monday, 03 February 1930, p.12, col.G] |
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Wife’s Father James Wanliss [AN022] (ploughman) |
Wife’s Mother Mary Ann Campbell [AN023] |
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Other husbands: none |
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Notes: Agricultural labourer, at marriage (1905). Cecilia was ten years younger than her husband Andrew, but he outlived her by ten years.
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Children |
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03 August 1906, Rawes, Longforgan, Perthshire (B/377/1906/23 Longforgan) |
Peter Symon [AN004], 19 July 1935, South Manse, Errol, Perthshire, Scotland (M/351/1935/5 Errol) |
12 July 1950, aged 43 years, Royal Infirmary, Perth, Scotland; usual res,
Inverlea, High Street, Errol, Perthshire, Scotland; c.o.d. carcinoma of lung, 3 months (D/387/1950/365 Perth). |
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2 M Andrew Smart |
08 April 1909, Templehall, Longforgan, Perthshire (B/377/1909/11 Longforgan) |
Single.
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Found dead, 05 March 1979, 15.00 hrs, aged 69 years, in Night
Shelter, Brymner Street, Greenock (coronary thrombosis, as certified by J.H. Henderson). Watchman, born 08 April 1909. John R Alexander, Social Worker, 195 Dalrymple Street [Greenock Social Work Department], Greenock.
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Updated 14 Dec 2016 and 11 June 2017
New Mains farm, Inchture, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
Andrew Smart, senior
Not much is yet known about my great-grandfather. I have not found a photo or likeness of him. He was a farm servant, working as a ploughman, like his father and his father-in-law. He seems to have worked exclusively on farms in the Carse of Gowrie, close to Errol. For a number of years he was employed at New Mains, Inchture. The cottage where the Smarts lived is still there today, sitting a short distance to the north of the farm, across the Erskine pow, by the side of the road leading to Ballindean (always pronounced "Banden" in old local dialect, and Inchture was always pronounced "Inster"). It was formerly a row of three farm workers' cottages but the building was converted into two terraced cottages and altered in the early 1970s. I am not sure when a water supply would have been provided. Some of the villages in the Carse had water supplies provided privately by the 1890s and the Lord Kinnairds who had Rossie estate on which New Mains was a tenant farm were quite progressive minded. Somewhere there is a photograph of probably Cecilia Smart standing in front of a thatched cottage which could be her home. It's just possible that the Smarts lived in a house that is no longer standing - there was one marked on the map around the turn of the 19th/20th century a short distance to the south of the row of cottages described above.
Scot Symon (1936-) remembers his grandfather, Andrew Smart, being carried on a stretcher, the few hundred yards from Kiersland, High Street, Errol, to Scot's parent's house, Crosslea, The Cross, Errol, shortly before his grandfather's death at Crosslea on 16 March 1940. He remembers his mother, asking her father if he wanted to speak to Scot. Scot was three years and ten months old when "Grangy" died.
On inspection of the churchyard in June 2015, no memorial was found for either Andrew or Cecilia Smart. In an attempt to locate the grave, an enquiry was made to staff at Perth Crematorium, Perth & Kinross Environment Service, Burial Services department, where all registers of burials for public burial grounds in Perth & Kinross (and some private burial grounds) are held. Unfortunately it drew a blank. A cash book held at Perth Crematorium that relates to Inchture church from 1934, contains an entry for a payment of an interment fee to David Thomson, Errol for the interment of Andrew Smart on 19 March 1940. Thomson was a joiner and undertaker in Errol. This is apparently the only record relating to either Andrew or Cecilia Smart, in the records of Perth & Kinross Burial Services department, although I have not been permitted to inspect these records personally. The burial register for Inchture dates only from 1955. (email from Perth & Kinross Council Environment Service, 14 August 2015).
Cecilia Wanliss or Smart
Verses by Cecilia Smart, 1927 (poems about the scenery around Aberdalgie and Glenfarg, where she played as a child).
Childhood Scenes
They lure me back, Ah, they lure me back,
Though I close ma een I can see the track,
Though the season is bye for the Hawthorn tree,
The scent o' the blossom comes sweet tae me.
The scent o' the woods, the broom, an' the whin,
A gairden o' peace wi a blue sky abune,
Hill streamlets meandering, my loved river may,
In fancy, they a' cling aroond me the day.
The slaes, tae, I pued roond the auld 'Roman Camp',
Wi playmates o' mine, an' the burn whaur we drank
O' the clear icy water, - the tanker I see,
It's there mong the rest that come crowdin' roond me.
Beneath sings the [...]ch, abun, Castle Law
Wi its stories o' [...]ures deep hidden awa.
The swift speedin' oors by the Auld Chestnut tree,
An' the whistles we made, - hoo they hover roond me.
Lang an' bright were the simmers, nor were winters e'er cauld
For the hills i' her airms her loved anes enfauld,
Oh they lure me back, an' its back yet I'll be,
For the scenes o' ma childhood keep callin' me.
C. Smart
October 10, 1927.
My Ochil hills
The sweet summer hoose yon'r by the Wishing well,
That such a place existed, there were nane that cou'd tell,
Save lovers of nature, whose ears caught the rhyming
Of sounds, like the bells of paradise chiming.
The owlets coo-ooo! when gloaming approaches,
Increasing in volume as darkness encroaches,
But lends to the charm of mysterious night,
Enfolding all things in the arms of its night.
O' fair are the Ochils when summer winds blow,
But fairer, I think, when o'ermantled with snow,
Then one thought of fairies, princesses and Kings,
Queens, and quite a host of impossible things.
What more happy sound that the noise of the river,
Though all else should sleep, it flows on for ever
The crash of the "Falls" ah, ..'King' of the "May"
The "Queen" was the "flower'd place" where I used to play.
Far roamed the [... ] - t'was everywhere clinging,
The pink Foxglove tower'd o'er the Bluebell so winning,
The Primrose was there, an' from some marshy spot,
Looked, lovingly pleading - Forget-Me-Not.
When the mountains were swept by a pure Autumn breeze,
When it raced down the valleys, and the trees shed their leaves,
When Golden, and Brown, decked each dykeside and grove,
Not I could resist 'mong such scenery to rove.
O' fair hills of God, What a gift to mankind
Giving health to the body, and strength to the mind,
Great author, and artist of all sight and sound, -
The hills, and the vales by His presence are bound.
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13th October. C.S.
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1927.
A pamphlet of children's verse edited by Flora Klickmann, "Bluebells in the Birch Wood" (published by the Religious Tract Society, no date, prob. 1910s-1920s), with dedication presumably to Mary Smart by her mother Cecilia Smart. Klickmann (1867-1958) edited (1908-1931) the Religious Tract Society's The Girl's Own Paper and wrote about nature around her home in the Wye valley. From the personal archives of Scot Symon, grandson of Cecilia Smart and daughter of Mary Smart.
Andrew Smart, junior.
The only photograph found of Andrew Smart (1909-1979), son of Andrew Smart and Cecilia Wanless. Photographer unknown, probably taken during the 1930s.
Andrew had a prominent burn mark on his face, of which he was very conscious. Allegedly, when he was young, a steading (barn) caught fire at the farm where his father worked, and he got the blame. Steading fires were very frequent in those days, probably because of the prevalence of fire insurance policies held by farmers and estates and the dilapidated state of their farm "offices" (buildings) which could be replaced on the insurance if a fire was arranged. Much the same thing goes on today (allegedly).
"Watchman found dead"
"Police in Inverclyde are anxious to speak to anyone who can help them trace the relatives of Mr Andrew Smart (69), who died in the Nite Shelter on Monday afternoon.
"Mr Smart, who was a nightwatchman at the Inverclyde Sailors' Centre, was a native of Longforgan in Perthshire and was a seaman for most of his life.
"It is believed that he lived for some time in Oban and had an uncle there."
(Greenock Telegraph, 7 March 1979)
Death Notices, Greenock Telegraph, Thursday, 8 March 1979:
"SMART --- Suddenly, at Greenock, on 5th March, 1979, Andrew Smart; deeply regretted. Funeral tomorrow (Friday) 9th curt. Friends wishing to attend please meet at Greenock Crematorium at 1.55 p.m."
Correspondence with: the Head of Health and Community Care, Ravenscraig Hospital, Inverclyde CHPC, Greenock (Inverclyde Council and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde); the Jericho Society, who have had responsibility for the night shelter since 21 December 1979; the police; Watt Library, Greenock; and a visit to Greenock Crematorium; all revealed nothing further about the circumstances of Andrew Smart's death nor of his life leading up to it.
Scot Symon (b 1936) recalls Andrew visiting his sister, Mary Smart, Scot's mother, at her home, Crosslea, Errol, several times but after her death in 1950 he never visited again and was never seen again by any of the family. Peter Symon wrote to Andrew to inform him of Mary's death but he never had a reply, and Andrew did not come to Mary's funeral, which Peter found upsetting. Andrew was thought to have been working for the Forestry Commission in the Oban area, driving machinery, at a time when there was a lot of tree planting and tree felling work taking place. There was also a belief that he may later have gone to live in Australia, whereas it would appear that he had joined the merchant navy.
A possible sighting of Andrew in the early 1960s was reported by Dave Kettles, experienced drainer employed by James S. Symon & Son, who told Scot Symon "I see Smert's back in Perth" as someone, perhaps Dave himself, perhaps someone else, who had known Andrew had thought that he or she had seen him in the street in Perth.
An unknown group of Edwardian men, women and children, mounted on card by photographer Robertson, Newburgh (Fife), who is thought to have been active from the end of the 19th century until the
1950s. By the costume it would appear to be during the decade of the 1900s. The group appear to be on an outing and if it was to Newburgh, they may have arrived in train from
Perth, Dundee or elsewhere in Fife. They may also have arrived by ferry from Port Allen in the Carse or Gowrie, or on a boat trip from Perth or Dundee. The photo is in the personal
archives of Scot and Eleanor Symon, Errol, Perthshire, and is thought to have belonged to Scot's mother, Mary Smart or Symon. Perhaps one of the ladies may be her mother, Cecilia Wanless or
Smart, and maybe one of the men her father, Andrew Smart. The group may have been servants and their families, of one of the big houses in the area, perhaps including farm servants
and their families from the home farm.
The lady seated in the second row from the front, second from left, wearing light dress and hat, and the gent seated to her left, and perhaps the little girl to her right, look possibilities.