Alice Mabel Smith

Brief Life History of Alice Mabel

When Alice Mabel Smith was born in 1874, in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, her father, Alfred Smith, was 42 and her mother, Eliza May Edwards, was 42. She had at least 1 son with Albert Ernest Walter White. She died in 1961, in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 87.

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Family Time Line

Albert Ernest Walter White
1872–1952
Alice Mabel Smith
1874–1961
Walter Edward White
1902–1963

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    World Events (8)

    1877

    Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.

    1892

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    1901

    First Federal election.

    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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