| Name |
Eli Elijah Smith [1, 2] |
| Born |
30 Jul 1847 |
Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD, Australia  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
05 Sep 1847 |
St John's Cathedral [1] |
| Occupation |
1891 |
Normanby, QLD, Australia [3] |
| the Postmaster |
| Residence |
Sep 1891 |
Petrie Terrace, Normanby, QLD, Australia [3] |
| Residence |
Jul 1935 |
Hanworth Street, East Brisbane, QLD, Australia [3] |
| Died |
28 Jul 1935 |
Brisbane, QLD, Australia [1] |
| Obit |
Aft 28 Jul 1935 |
The Courier Mail, Brisbane, QLD, Australia [3] |
"Veteran Ex-Postmaster"
Late Mr E E Smith
On the eve of his eighty-eighth birthday, Mr E E Smith, who was for many years associated with the postal services of this state, passed away. The late Mr Smith was born in 1847 in Queen Street, immediately opposite where the GPO now stands. His father, John Patience (sic) Smith, familiarly known by his second christian name, had a metal worker's shop and residence there. He was a prominent temperance and church worker.
There was no national school here when Mr E E Smith was a boy. He therefore was sent to a private school conducted by Mr Joseph Hobart Carvosso, father of Mr W H Carvasso, for many years sheriff of the Supreme Court, and a well known cricket umpire, and of Doctor A B Carvosso. The curriculum was a liberal one and the late Mr Smith there became acquainted with Latin and other subjects not taught in the State Primary schools.
POSTAL SERVICE
Upon leaving school, the young Queenslander entered the postal service, and he remained associated with it until he retired under the age-limit regulations, when he became a Savings Bank officer. During his term in the Postal Department, he served in the travelling post office between Brisbane and Dalby, being one of the first officers to carry out this exacting work in Queensland. He was a model penman, and some time later he was brought into the accounts branch of the head office. His first postmastership was that of the old office in Petrie Terrace, opposite the Normanby Hotel. Then he was transferred successively to the same position at Paddington and George Street, and later he was savings bank officer at Woolloongabba.
The late Mr Smith was twice married and had eleven children, nine of them from his first marriage. His widow and nine of the children survive. Mr A B Smith, for many years associated with His Majesty's Theatre, and now resides at Bribie, is a brother. The funeral took place at Bulimba Cemetery
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| Buried |
Bulimba Cemetery, QLD, Australia [3] |
- Grave Number 238B, Block 18
|
| Person ID |
I34194 |
Mote/McInnes |
| Last Modified |
9 Apr 2002 |
| Father |
John Patient Smith, b. 30 May 1816, Mendham, Suffolk, England , d. 08 Dec 1882, Merivale Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Age 66 years) |
| Mother |
Jane James, b. 20 May 1826, Baulkham Hills, NSW, Australia , d. 27 Jan 1912, Mowbray Terrace, East Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Age 85 years) |
| Married |
25 May 1840 |
St John's Church of England, Parramatta, NSW, Australia |
| Family ID |
F26 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Sarah Adele Sawyer, b. 1849, England , d. 23 Sep 1891, Australia (Age 42 years) |
| Married |
1870 |
Brisbane, QLD, Australia [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Emily Marianne Smith, b. 1872, Australia |
| | 2. Alfred Arthur Albert Smith, b. 1873, Australia |
| | 3. Walter Herbert Smith, b. 24 Aug 1876, Dalby, QLD, Australia |
| | 4. Reginald Smith, b. 1879, Australia , d. Bef 1935, Australia (Age < 55 years) |
| | 5. Ernest George Smith, b. 1881, Australia |
| | 6. Leslie Rupert Smith, b. 1883, Australia , bur. 15 Jun 1948, the cemetery, Toowong, QLD, Australia (Age ~ 65 years) |
| | 7. Ada Lillian Smith, b. 1886, Australia , bur. 02 Nov 1936, the cemetery, Toowong, QLD, Australia (Age ~ 50 years) |
| | 8. Mabel Evelyn Smith, b. 1888, Australia |
| | 9. Bertie Leonard Claude Smith, b. Feb 1891, Australia |
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| Last Modified |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Family ID |
F8490 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
AUSIGEN - Family History
1847 - 1935 (87 years)
