Samuel Page Smeeton
Samuel Page Smeeton, I.S.O., was born in South Lincolnshire, England, in 1842. He was educated privately. He came to Jamaica and was appointed clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office in 1862. He was appointed first-class clerk in 1870 and was promoted to the post of Registrar General in 1878, and Deputy-Keeper of Records in 1899. He conducted and reported the Jamaica census in 1881 and 1891 and was appointed a member of Marriage and Registration Commission in 1903. He was a Captain in the Jamaica Militia, and a Justice of the Peace. He married twice, his first wife being Miss Emma Moore, who died in 1888, and his second wife, Miss Jean Henderson of Kingston, Ontario, whom he married in 1899. He was created member of the Imperial Service Order in 1903. He went to Canada 1908, lived in Wetaskiwan in the early months of 1908 and in Edmonton up to the time of his death which occurred on the 19th July, 1916.
Obituary, Who's Who in Jamaica, 1916 |
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