Jane Louisa Smith

Brief Life History of Jane Louisa

When Jane Louisa Smith was born on 15 August 1827, in Sherington, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Daniel William Smith, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Wooding, was 30. She married Jesse Turpin on 16 April 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1843 and lived in Newington, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 May 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Sinclair Crawford
1829–1893
Jane Louisa Smith
1827–1893
Marriage: 3 October 1862
Mary Elizabeth Crawford
1863–1864
Victoria Cornelia Crawford
1866–1923
John William Smith Crawford
1869–1948

Sources (89)

  • Jane Smith in household of Daniel Smith, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Jane Louisa Smith - Individual or family possessions: birth: 9 September 1827; Sherrington, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Samuel Crawford and Jane Van - marriage record 1862

World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842

The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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History of Daniel William and Sarah Wooding Smith family

DANIEL WILLIAM SMITH was the seventh child of eight children born to William and Elizabeth Longhurst Smith. His Certificate of Baptism in the Sherington Parish, Buckinghamshire, England was dated Octo …

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