Douglas Laing Smit

Born: 21 Mar 1885
Marriage (1): Charlotte Louise Reay Shaw
Died: 1961 aged 76
Crem.: East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Charlotte Louise Reay Shaw

bullet Birth Notes:

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http://www.1820settlers.co.uk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I50116&tree=master

bullet Death Notes:

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Name: Smit, Douglas Laing
Age: 76 Years
Gender: Male
Date Of Death: 1961.00
Cremation Number: 289.00
Page Reference: BK1-025
Source: Cambridge Crematorium East London
Collection Name: Cambridge Crematorium East London 1959 - 2005

bullet Burial Notes:

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2149603747
Name: Smit, Douglas Laing
Title: Doctor
Date Of Birth: 21March 1885
Place Of Birth: Seymour, Cape Province
Occupation: Civil Servant
Father Name: Smit, N.H.
Surname Of Spouse: Shaw
First Name Of Spouse: C.L.R.
Surname Of Father Spouse 1: Shaw
First Name Of Father Spouse 1: J.R.
Other Information: U.P. M.P. for East London City. Has had a distinguished career in the Civil Service and on retirement in 1945 was Secretary for Native Affairs; Deputy Chairman of Native Affairs Commission 1934-49; joined Cape Civil Service 1903 and was posted to the Magistrate's Office in Grahamstown; during the next 29 years he served in various capacities in the Magsterial Service until in 1933 he became Under-Secretary for Justice;1934 appd. Sec. for Native Affairs; 1945 accompanied General J.C. Smuts to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco and represented South Africa on the Trusteeship Commission. ; Later in the same year was a Union Delegate to the I.L.O. Conference held in Paris; saw service in the South African war and in 1939, as secretary for Native Affairs was responsible for the recruitment of Natives for the Native Military Corps.; rank Hon. Col.; Chair. Finance Comm. Union Advisory Board on Native Education 1945-49. Educated: Seymour Public School, in 1946 he received Honours Degree of Dr. of Law from Witswatersrand University. Married Miss C.L.R. Shaw daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Shaw. Had 3 children. Address: 1 Mimosa Road, East London.
Collection: 1959 Who's Who

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Douglas married Charlotte Louise Reay Shaw, daughter of John Reay Shaw and Charlotte Louisa Van Ryneveld. (Charlotte Louise Reay Shaw was born calculated 1889, died in 1968 and was cremated in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

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There will inevitably be errors and omissions and the whole purpose of creating this online record, is to invite feedback and corrections.
The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years