When Lionel Edgar Smart was born on 1 November 1879, in Bakers Gully, South Australia, Australia, his father, Henry Alfred Smart, was 23 and his mother, Lucy Emma Wade, was 23. He married Rosetta Maud Golder on 9 February 1905, in Kangarilla, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 12 August 1965, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 85, and was buried in Clarendon and Kangarilla General Cemetery, Kangarilla, South Australia, Australia.
English: nickname for a brisk or active person, from Middle English smert, smart ‘quick, prompt, brisk, vigorous’ (Old English smeart ‘stinging’, ‘painful’, from smeortan ‘to sting’). This name is widespread throughout England (especially Gloucestershire), Wales, and Scotland (mainly Angus).
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