Leroy Smith

Brief Life History of Leroy

When Leroy Smith was born in 1822, in Bethel, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Charles S Smith, was 22 and his mother, Anna Taylor, was 19.

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Charles S Smith
1800–1869
Anna Taylor
1803–1864
Leroy Smith
1822–
Anne Jeannette Crane
1825–1904
Jeanette Smith
1827–
Harriet Smith
1828–1903
Frank Wilmot Smith
1829–1919
Joseph Romaine Smith
1831–1902
Charles Griffen Smith
1834–1900
Leonard D Smith
1839–1862
William Edward Smith
1843–
Lucian A Smith
1845–1846

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    1865

    Danbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut. The Danbury area was then called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Algonquian-speaking Pahquioque Native Americans

    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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