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Surely there are others here who have the surname ................................











SMITH

in their trees!



I am descended from Smiths in Nottinghamshire and Smiths in Cornwall, both on my mother's side. And my mother's maternal aunt married a Barnardo's boy named Smith, born in Hampshire (although his parents were from completely elsewhere - probably Somerset for his father). So my mum's Smith first cousins are descended from three different batches of Smiths.

Any cousins for me? ;)


Just for the heck of it:

Anybody descended from more than two separate batches of Smiths?

Anybody *not* descended from *any* Smiths? ;)

Hi Janey, well my o.h. is a Smith, and his g. grandfather was adopted so before that they know nothing, whether Smith was his real name or adopted name, but you can have any of his lot if you want lol They are in Norfolk.

I think in my maternal side I have a Smith, maybe a g.g.g.grandmother but as I am not doing much with that side of the family, Throwers and Wilsons, I am not sure, I have two cousins working on that side so am concentrating on my paternal side.

Good luck in finding lots of Smith cousins lol

Lizx

OH OH I have a Smith as a 6x great grandmother from Kent. So now have a cousin in Canada, how exciting.

Janey they are a horrid bunch to try and trace. I groan inwardly if I find a Smith in my tree, so much work and very little result.

Gail

Sorry JC...no Smiths in my tree however perhaps I could trade you a William Williams b c1795 somewhere in Wales . Oh and his occupation was a game keeper if that helps lol.

Linda

Edit...surely this thread should be on TTF : )))

My lot must have gotten very bored after their 5th or 6th child.
Oliver Cromwell Smith??

Maureen

I know, Linda, wrong board ... but if I'd put it on TTF, all those horrid rude people would have been berating me for not putting all my names and dates and places in my post ... and done my own searching at FreeBMD and in the 1911 ...

Cornwall, uh, I think St Cleer, sometime in the 1700s, a female ancestor on my mother's father's father's mother's mother's side ... you know ... Ernest the Monck/Hill ...

Nottinghamshire, around Calverton, around 1800 ... allegedly the mother of my mother's mother's mother's father ...

Purple Liz -- that was always the story about my mother's aunt's husband the Home Boy -- that Smith was his "orphan" name! Except I then looked up his marriage registration (in Canada) and found that he'd given both his parents' full names, and tracked the whole lot of them down in the English censuses, and sure enough, he was a real Smith.

So now I have people I can make provide me with room and board for a week or two in Oz and NY (City, I hope?). How excellent! I won't even insist that you prove your blood relationship. ;)

Maureen, did you know there were at least 3 Oliver Cromwell Smiths??

Births Mar 1855
Smith Oliver Cromwell Birmingham 6d 194
Births Jun 1885
Smith Oliver Cromwell Barton R. 6a 191
Marriages Jun 1890
SMITH Oliver Cromwell C Poplar 1c 1103
Marriages Jun 1895
Smith Oliver Cromwell Birmingham 6d 219


Yours reminds me of my Carters (who have no Smiths in them, I think) - children (I have no clue as to the order of the first 5)

Eliza Jane
Eliza Ann
Mary Jane
Mary Ann
Ann Maria
Georginia
Virginia
Tryphoena
William

Yours got bored, mine ran out of ways to combine the same three names. ;)

No Smiths so far, but when I tried for James Crawford......I thought that Crawford was the Scottish form of Smith.....

Sorry, but I don't hold out much hope ...... but you never know......I always feel sorry for the Welsh......with Jones..... and then there are Roberts, Robertsons, Williams, Edwards......etc. etc.....

With all the strange names our kids are coming up with for the next generation, at least their ancestors have a chance of finding a Baylie Rae, rather than all my Mary Anns...... :0/

Janey, as far as I know...no Smiths :0((

Allan

My son in law is a Smith.....family from Essex apparently. That's not far from Kent, so you never know!

And Aunty Sherlock has a branch of Carters somewhere in her family. My carters were actually waggoners & Ag Labs - lol

I think I have at least 6 groups of Smiths.

My favorite was Edward John Napolean Smith.my 4x great grandfather.

On another branch I am having trouble finding anything else about Etherlinda Smith other than 1841 census.
But sorry none in in Hampshire or Somerset that I remember.

I'm a Smith, and my grandad married a Smith, so half my tree is Smiths, i have 2 great grandad both called John smith

Not one Smith so far.....

but it does put me in mind of a friend, on her first visit to my house ( she was 19) my mum 'read' the cards for her... and 'saw' her marriage etc.. so we were laughing about that a bit, and my mum said " well any surname apart from Smith would be good " ..... what mum didn't know was my new friends surname......

Smith, lol.

No Smiths so far...but plenty of Kings in Essex, the lead being one Henry King (but which one?), and a William Robertson born in Scotland...thats all I have on that one. Helpful eh?

Thanks Janey
Still do not know about Etherlinda but I have just found her brothers family and his daughter is also Etherlinda.

I would not have looked if you had not put the thread up.

I am about to look at my tree and see if I have any Smith sssss.

You will of course be holding your breath until I return.

Toodelooo I shan't be long.

I'm back. Found one. Florence Hannah Smith born Broulee NSW 1875 married Roger T Backhouse. Now Roger T was the 19th child of John Backhouse & wife. The 17th child was my OHs birth grandfather. The family included triplets and two sets of twins.

Ooo yes please Shelly, as you know, it's Florence's Fathers family. They are likely to be in there too somewhere. But there were lots of Kings in the area, so they could be any of them. All John's and Henry's LOL

No Smiths in my family (so far) lol

Teresa, a friend of mine on here has a Henry King in her tree b1937 in Dulwich.

Steve
:o)

Mine was earlier than that, around 1880, in West Ham *sigh* lol