Margaret Smith

Female12 September 1596–

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Smith was born on 12 September 1596, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Smythe, was 50 and her mother, Margaret Davie, was 47.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Smythe
1547–1605
Margaret Davie
1549–
Eleanor Smith
1569–
Richard Smith
1579–1580
James Smith
1583–1583
Margaret Smith
1590–1595
John Smith
1604–1604
Smith
1605–1605
Elizabeth Smith
1574–
John Smith
1574–
Thomas Smith
1577–
Thomas Smith
1578–
Margaret Smith
1596–
George Smith
1599–1599
Hugh Smith
1599–
Thomas Smith
1602–

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    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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