{"id":278,"date":"2020-03-29T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T02:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T06:35:21","slug":"william-allen-jessie-may-smart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=278","title":{"rendered":"ALLEN &#038; SMART"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The parents of my paternal grandfather, <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=264\">Ronald ALLEN<\/a>, were William ALLEN and Jessie May SMART.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William ALLEN was born 31 January 1895 in Dunedin, Otago, NZ, to <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=321\">William Henry ALLEN &amp; Eliza NOTLEN<\/a>. He had three siblings; Oswald (1896-1980), Eva Alice (1904-1927) and Raymond (1908-1979). In 1919, he was living at 63 Waitoa Road, Wellington, with his parents, and working as a driver for his father&#8217;s carrier company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 26 December 1921, he married Jessie May SMART at St Peter&#8217;s Church in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessie May SMART was born 3 April 1904 in Wellington, NZ, to <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=325\">George Charles SMART &amp; Mary HIPWELL<\/a>. She had two siblings; Lily Mary (1900-1981) and Fred (1911-1984).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William and Jessie lived in Wellington for much of their married life, raising two sons; William Robert (known as Jim) and Ron. The couple moved to Auckland in the early &#8217;60s and spent the rest of their days on the North Shore. William died 23 June 1977 and Jessie died 4 February 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WilliamHenry-Wm-Eliza-Oswald-Allen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WilliamHenry-Wm-Eliza-Oswald-Allen.png 560w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WilliamHenry-Wm-Eliza-Oswald-Allen-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WilliamHenry-Wm-Eliza-Oswald-Allen-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WilliamHenry-Wm-Eliza-Oswald-Allen-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption>William Henry ALLEN &amp; wife Eliza (nee NOTLEN), and sons William &amp; Oswald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lily-MaryHipwell-JessieMay-Fred-George-Smart.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lily-MaryHipwell-JessieMay-Fred-George-Smart.png 560w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lily-MaryHipwell-JessieMay-Fred-George-Smart-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lily-MaryHipwell-JessieMay-Fred-George-Smart-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lily-MaryHipwell-JessieMay-Fred-George-Smart-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption>George Charles SMART &amp; wife Mary (nee HIPWELL) and children Jessie &amp; Fred<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of my paternal grandfather, Ronald ALLEN, were William ALLEN and Jessie May SMART. William ALLEN was born 31 January 1895 in Dunedin, Otago, NZ, to William Henry ALLEN &amp; Eliza NOTLEN. He had three siblings; Oswald (1896-1980), Eva Alice (1904-1927) and Raymond (1908-1979). In 1919, he was living at 63 Waitoa Road, Wellington, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALLEN &#038; SMART&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":264,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/348"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}