Selah Teresa Smith

Female22 March 1917–

Brief Life History of Selah Teresa

When Selah Teresa Smith was born on 22 March 1917, in Richmond Hill, York, Ontario, Canada, her father, Jeremiah Smith, was 43 and her mother, Effie May Hollingshead, was 37.

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Family Time Line

Jeremiah Smith
1873–1953
Effie May Hollingshead
1879–
Cora May Smith
1901–1956
Amy Agnes Smith
1903–1956
Gertrude Elsie Smith
1904–
Laura Beatrice Smith
1905–1994
Edith Lillian Smith
1906–1982
Ivy Mildred Smith
1908–
Goldwin Smith
1911–1911
Bartlett Smith
1912–1937
Smith
1914–1914
Alma Patricia Smith
1915–
Selah Teresa Smith
1917–
Audrey Marie Smith
1920–2012
Smith
1922–1922

Sources (1)

  • 1921 Census of Canada for Bartlett Smith

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (13)

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World Events (3)

1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born

Age 17

Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.

1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election

Age 26

George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.

1982

Age 65

Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.

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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