When Stephen Justephonicus K. Smith was born on 2 April 1703, in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Thomas Smith, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Downing, was 32. He married Mary Polly Hawkins in 1729, in Orange, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died after 27 May 1784, in Orange, Orange, Virginia, United States, and was buried in Orange, Virginia, United States.
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Orange Court House was renamed Orange in 1890.
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.
Possible Related Names"In the name of God Amen. I Stephen J. K. Smith of the County of Orange and the parish of Saint Thomas being in years but of Perfect mind and memory thanks be given to almighty for the same and calli …
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