Mavis Helen Smith

Brief Life History of Mavis Helen

When Mavis Helen Smith was born on 2 February 1921, in South Australia, Australia, her father, William Henry Smith, was 31 and her mother, Clara Helen Cockshell, was 25. She died on 20 April 1957, in her hometown, at the age of 36, and was buried in Murray Bridge Town Cemetery, Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia.

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Family Time Line

William Henry Smith
1889–1967
Clara Helen Cockshell
1895–1971
William Sydney Smith
1917–
Rex Henry Smith
1919–
Mavis Helen Smith
1921–1957
Dorean Isabel Smith
1927–1983

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  • Mavis Helen Smith, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (5)

1939

Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

1940

Australia declares war on Italy.

1940

Communist Party of Australia is outlawed.

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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