When Samuel Smith was born on 2 October 1830, in Margaretting, Essex, England, his father, Samuel Smith, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Mead Cheek, was 21. He married Jane Ellison on 19 July 1857, in Saint Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in St Pancras St Jude Gray's Inn Road, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Grays, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 16 November 1921, at the age of 91.
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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 .
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