Frances Catherine Barnard

In the preface to Doleful Death and The Flowery Funeral of Fancy she wrote:— "For myself, if but one youthful mind become wiser or better from the perusal of my rhymes, I shall consider my trouble amply repaid".

[1] She was the eldest daughter and co-heir of Francis Smith, of Norwich (descendant of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull) and Sarah (Marsh).

[2] Her uncle was Sir James Edward Smith, a successful botanist at the time who co-founded the Linnean Society.

[1] Four baptisms occurred in 1836: Alicia Mildred, Robert, Frederic William, and Jane Catherine.

[4] Francis (1823-1912) was a microscopist, chemist, druggist, as well as a member of the Botanical Society of London who emigrated from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to Australia.