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Edwin Henry Mason Smith (also known as Henry Smith) is a former Jeweller Edwin Henry Mason Smith was born at 6 Constantine Street, in Plymouth, Devonshire on 20 July 1886. His father Edwin Henry Smith was a Jeweller Journeyman. He grew up living above a watch and jewellery shop in Embankment Road, Plymouth. He was the eldest son of five boys and was known as Eddie or Ed in England and as Ted or Henry in New Zealand. ==Immigration to New Zealand== He spent his 21st birthday in hospital with rheumatic fever and after a doctor told him the climate in England was not suitable to his medical condition and after marrying Ada Gartrett in Plymouth on 3 July 1909 he emigrated to New Zealand. Arriving in Wellington he travelled to Auckland by train on the newly completed North Island main trunk line. After working for Adolf Cohen who owned a watch and jewellery shop in Queen Street, Auckland he moved to Huntly where he opened up in business at 1 Main Street. Watch Maker and Jewellers shop in the front and accommodation in the back. May Smith and Henry met in Huntly. May's father Alexander Smith had worked in the mines in Consett, North England as a stonemason, moved to New Zealand and worked in the coal mines in Huntly so that he could pay the passage for his wife and four daughters to join him in New Zealand (Alexander Smith built the stone chair on the walkway between Thorne and Milford Beaches, Northshore, Auckland). Sidney Smith (Sid) was born on 18 August 1917. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Henry Mason Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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