Brief Life History of Amy Ann
When Amy Ann Smith was born on 13 November 1844, in Lewis, Virginia, United States, her father, Joshua David Smith, was 26 and her mother, Emily Jane Beall, was 20. She died on 1 August 1846, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Amy Ann Smith - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Amy Ann Smith
Parents and Siblings
1818–1865 Male
1824–1892 Female
Siblings (11)
1841–1921 Female
1843–1873 Male
1844–1846 Female
1847–1921 Male
1849– Female
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World Events (1)
1846
Age 2
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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