Henry George Spedding-Smith

• Name	Henry George Spedding-Smith
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I1204	SmithTree
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family	Irene Annie Baxter,   b. 1882, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 4 Apr 1935, Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	17 Aug 1910	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  Children	1. Burton Spedding-Smith   d. 5 Dec 1970, Roleystone, Perth, Western Australia   2. Henry Glasgow Spedding-Smith   d. 19 Jun 1981, Maylands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  Family ID	F390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 17 Aug 1910 - Ballarat, Victoria, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Henry George Spedding-Smith Henry George Spedding Smith was born in Ballarat VIC the son of a very highly respected member of the Ballarat Stock Exchange. He was educated at Ballarat College and gained the Civil Service Diploma. He later moved to WA and eventually joined the WA Police Service on 16 October 1894 as a Probationary. Constable, Service No 133. During his long years of service with the WA Police Force Hal was stationed in the following country towns: Cue (2 November 1894) Const 2/C Wiluna (1 December 1899) Const 2/C Lawlers *(19 August 1904) Bridgetown (7 March 1906) Fremantle (2 September 1907) Corporal Ravensthorpe (23 March 1908) Fremantle (3 May 1912) Southern Cross (7 December 1914) Sgt Perth (3 June 1916) Sgt 2/C Kalgoorlie (10 February 1920) Broome (4 October 1921) Insp 3/C On posting to Cue he was paid six shillings and six pence per day and a living allowance of Đ30.0.0 PA. At Cue he was knows as the boy policeman. Whilst stationed at Lawlers he was in charge of the main gold escort from Lake Way to Leonora- Eventually he was transferred back to Fremantle where he was appointed Officer in charge of the Fremantle district with the rank of Inspector 1st Class. Some time after he and Rene were married he apparently chose to hyphenate his name to Spedding-Smith. Spedding was his mother's maiden name. After retiring from the Police Force Hal tried his hand at farming and he purchased or leased a property about 40 kilometres, north of Esperance, in the district which is now known as 'Speddingup.' Co-incidence? He died at Fremantle in July 1938 aged 64 years.