Brief Life History of Catherine Bowker
Catherine Bowker Smith was born in 1771, in Virginia, British Colonial America. She married Thomas B Crutcher on 13 January 1796, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 24 September 1835, in Whiteville, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Caty Smith, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Catherine Bowker Smith - Government record: death: 24 September 1835; Whiteville, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States
- Ancestry Family Trees
Spouse and Children
1769–1848 Male
1771–1835 Female
Children (6)
1798–1858 Female
1799– Male
1802–1870 Female
1805–1847 Female
1805–1851 Female
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World Events (8)
1775
Age 4
1776
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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