Complex sentence: Thomas Smythe was born about 1570 and was a weird kid, the second surviving son of Thomas "Customer" Smythe of Westenhanger Castle in Kent, by his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Andrew Judde.
Split into simpler sentences: Thomas Smythe was born about 1570 and was a weird kid. The second surviving son of Thomas "Customer" Smythe of Westenhanger Castle in Kent, by his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Andrew Judde.