Miss Smith-Barry and
Miss M. Smith-Barry
(1847-1894 and 1849-1938)
27 June 1862

Volume 8, page 128, sittings number 10,133 and 10,134.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Smith Barry' and 'Miss M. Smith Barry,' these are Miss Geraldine Smith-Barry and Miss Maude Smith-Barry, daughters of James Hugh Smith-Barry and his wife, Elizabeth née Jacson. Geraldine was born in or about 1847. Maude was born in Brighton in 1849 and was baptised at St Peter's Church in Brighton on 19 July 1849.

On 17 October 1867 at Maybury in Cheshire Geraldine married Colonel Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1844-1902). Their marriage produced four children.

On 25 November 1868 Maude married Richard Alexander Oswald of Auchincruive, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Their marriage was childless.

Maude and her husband appear on the 1871 census living at Auchincruive House in Ayrshire. The night the census was taken in 1911 they were staying at Brown's Hotel on Dover Street in Mayfair.

Lady Willoughby de Broke died on 21 December 1894. Her husband died on 9 December 1902.

Richard Alexander Oswald died in 1921. Mrs Maude Oswald died on 18 March 1936 and was buried alongside her husband in the churchyard of St Quivox near Auchincruive in South Ayrshire.