Ivy Smith

Brief Life History of Ivy

When Ivy Smith was born on 19 February 1899, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Smith, was 30 and her mother, Alice Maud Hinton, was 30. She married William Charles Wassall in 1927, in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. She immigrated to Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States in 1922 and lived in Tipton, Staffordshire, England in 1901 and Tipton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 28 years. She died in 1984, in Tettenhall, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.

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William Charles Wassall
1896–1982
Ivy Smith
1899–1984
Marriage: 1927

Sources (9)

  • Ivy Smith in household of Thomas Smith, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
  • Ivy Smith in England Civil Registration Birth Index
  • Ivy Smith, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1915 · Zeppelins Over London

On May 31, 1915 a German zeppelin went over London in dark of night. It released a bomb over the city killing 28 people and wounding 60. 

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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