Isabella Gair Rose Smith (1810–1835)
Isabella Gair Rose Romanes (1835–1873)
1810–83
Scottish. Daughter of the Rev. Robert Smith, parish minister of Cromarty, Scotland, and brother of John Smith, minister in Beckwith, Ontario, Canada. Married George Romanes (1806–71), minister at Smith Falls, Ontario, in Beckwith in 1835. Mother of George John Romanes, who was born in Kingston, Ontario, where his father was appointed to a post at Queen’s College in 1846. The family returned to Britain after George Romanes came into a substantial inheritance in 1848.
Sources
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 1–2, 148
queensu.ca/academia/forsdyke/romanes.htm#Romanes - Father and Son, accessed 1 December 2022
UK and Ireland, Find a grave index, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 February 2017)
Bibliography
Romanes, Ethel Duncan. 1896. The life and letters of George John Romanes M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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