Grace Lydia Smith

Brief Life History of Grace Lydia

When Grace Lydia Smith was born on 3 June 1914, in Saint Thomas, Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Harry Johnston Smith, was 27 and her mother, Margaret Lillian Stackhouse, was 23. She died on 24 June 1992, in London, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 78, and was buried in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

William Matthew Houseman
1912–1973
Grace Lydia Smith
1914–1992

Sources (4)

  • Grace Smith in household of Harry Smith, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Grace L Houseman, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Grace L Houseman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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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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