Brief Life History of Ada Jane
When Ada Jane Smith was born on 29 May 1877, in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, her father, Frederick George Smith, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Martha Harris, was 23. She had at least 2 sons with John Allison MacMillan Senior. She died on 22 January 1947, in Newport, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 69.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Ada Jane Smith - Published information: birth-name: Ada Jane Smith
Spouse and Children
1874–1952 Male
1877–1947 Female
Children (2)
1913–1942 Male
1917–2000 Male
Parents and Siblings
1853–1934 Male
1853–1942 Female
Siblings (8)
1876–1933 Female
1877–1947 Female
1880–1981 Female
1880– Female
1881–1881 Male
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World Events (7)
1892
Age 15
1901
Age 24
1901
Age 24
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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