Winifred Annie Smith

Brief Life History of Winifred Annie

When Winifred Annie Smith was born on 4 July 1925, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Archibald Ferdinand Smith, was 27 and her mother, Annie Elizabeth Fryer, was 24. She married John Turl on 6 May 1944, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 22 February 2007, in Northwood, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.

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Arthur Frank Francis
1915–1969
Winifred Annie Smith
1925–2007
Marriage: 21 December 1946
Patricia Ann Francis
1948–2024

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    World Events (8)

    1928 · Women Granted Right to Vote

    Women in England over the age of 21 were granted the right to vote on May 7, 1928.

    1940

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.

    1948

    London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.

    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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