Born at Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, a son of Luke Smith (who was born at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England) and Elizabeth Courtney Ransom. There is a photo of these parents on Ancient Faces website.
Sydney Stratford Smith was a brother of Herbert Alfred Smith (my grandfather) of Beaufort, Victoria, whose photo, it appears, was too large for Ancient Faces to allow.
A son of Herbert Alfred was Walter Thomas Smith, whose gravesite appears on Ancient Faces.
We didn't have photos before the mid 1800's, but we do have paintings and sculptures. These are some of the representations of people and places before 1600.
Photos of old headstones, graves, and obituaries from around the world.
Grave markers or headstones (commonly referred to as graves) and newspaper obituaries provide valuable information for the family historian and researcher. Photos of information found in cemeteries no...