Samuel Smith

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Smith was born about 1806, in Ancaster, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Smith, was 29 and his mother, Winnifred Lavinia Silverthorn, was 31.

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Family Time Line

John Smith
1778–1851
Winnifred Lavinia Silverthorn
1776–1862
Rachel Smith
1790–
Samuel Smith
1806–
John William Smith
1804–1869
Isaac Smith
1807–1887
Susanah Smith
1811–1902
Ira Benjamin Smith
1814–1883
Abraham Smith
1816–
Annie Smith
1818–1834

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    World Events (3)

    1867 · Ontario Founded

    On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

    1871

    British Columbia joins the confederation.

    1883 · Mining Boom

    In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.

    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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