When William George Smith was born on 18 May 1861, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Smith, was 39 and his mother, Mary Ann Mole, was 38. He married Elizabeth Ann King on 11 February 1882, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1880. He died on 30 July 1932, in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Kerstine Jensen Poulsen BIRTH 17 Aug 1832 Denmark DEATH 12 May 1862 (aged 29) BURIAL Liberty Cemetery Liberty, Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA MEMORIAL ID 74506023
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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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