Abigail Smith

Brief Life History of Abigail

When Abigail Smith was born on 11 February 1705, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Smith, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Mary Armstrong, was 30. She married Ebenezer Welch before June 1724. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died before 1795.

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer Welch
1703–
Abigail Smith
1705–1795
Marriage: before June 1724
Ebenezer Welch
1725–
Daniel Welch
1747–1827
Lydia Welch
1759–1846

Sources (3)

  • Abigaell Smith, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Abigaell Smith, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

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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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