Brief Life History of Wallace James
When Wallace James Smith of Ryebourne was born in 1913, his father, James Smith, was 37 and his mother, Isabell Anna Chalmers, was 29. He died on 18 May 1936, at the age of 23, and was buried in Deniliquin Cemetery, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Wallace J Smith, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (3)
1914
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
1918
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
1921
Edith Cowan is elected to the Western Australia Parlaiment. She is the first woman parliamentarian in Australia.
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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