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Maylyn Ann Smith's Father:
Christopher John Smith
Birthdate: April 17, 1977
Birthplace: Palatka, Florida
Parents:
John Edmund Smith
1959-
Holly Maurine Abbott
1960-
Family 1
Spouse:
Kimberly Blackwell
Children:
1. Maylyn Ann Smith (Lane) b. June 4, 1998 - (1 child - Ila Rae Lane)
Family 2
Spouse:
Dorothy Murphy
Children:
1. Isabella Grace Smith b. March 6, 2010
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Christopher Smith's Father:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal Grandfather:
John Edmund Smith (1959 - )
Birthdate: December 22, 1959
Birthplace: Palatka, Florida
Parents:
Richard Preston Smith
1937-
Laura Ann Ramsey
1940-2012
Family
Spouse:
Holly Maurine Abbott
Also known as: "Holly Abbott Parham"
Birthdate: 1960
Birthplace: Sarasota, Florida
Married:
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Harold Abbott and Joan McFarland
See: Abbott Line
Children:
1. Christopher John Smith
2. Stacey Smith (Bruner)
3. Cory Myron Smith
About John Edmund Smith
US Army Veteran
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Christopher Smith's Paternal Grandfather:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal Great Grandfather:
Richard Preston Smith (1937 - ?)
Birthdate: August 10, 1937
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia
Death: unknown
Parents:
Charles Lawrence Smith
1893-1970
Laura Hassel
1898-1977
Family
Spouse:
Laura Ann Ramsey
Also known as: "Laura A. Dunson"
Birthdate: February 14, 1940
Birthplace: Florida
Married: September 18, 1954 in Perquimans, North Carolina (she later married William Martin Dunson, Jr.)
Death: May 12, 2012 in Pomona Park, Putnam
Burial: May, 2012, Oakwood Cemetery, Welaka, Putnam, Florida, 29.487524,-81.670121
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Thomas Clarence Ramsey (1918–1952) and Laurie Ann Warr (1920–2005)
See: Ramsey Line
Children:
1. John Edmund Smith
2. Richard "Ricky" Smith
3. Cindy Smith
4. Kathy Smith
5. Tommy Smith
About Richard Preston Smith
When Laura and Richard got married, on 18 September 1954 in Perquimans, North Carolina, they were both 18 years
old.
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Christopher Smith's Paternal Great-Grandfather:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal 2x Great Grandfather:
Charles Lawrence Smith (1893 - 1970)
Charles Lorenzo “Smitty” Smith
Birthdate: December 26, 1893
Birthplace: Cherry Or, Skinnersville), Washington County, North Carolina
Death: January 11, 1970 in Virginia
Burial: Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia
Parents:
Josephus C. Smith
1856-1926
Sylvania V. Phelps
1858–1898
Family 1
Spouse:
Laura Hassel
Birthdate: September 6, 1898
Birthplace: Cherry, Washington County, North Carolina
Married: 1915
Death: December 3, 1977 in Chesapeake City, Virginia
Burial: Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery, Norfolk, Norfolk city, Virginia
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Edmond Hassell and Nancy Spruill
Children:
1. Marvin Edmond Smith (1933–1980)
2. Richard Preston Smith (1937- ?)
Family 2
Spouse:
Magnolia Allen
Birthdate: August 19, 1914
Birthplace: Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina
Death: December 25, 2001 in Moyock, Currituck County, North Carolina
Burial: Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia
Immediate Family:
Daughter of William Henry Allen (1884–1968) and Laura Jane Wrenn (1883–1977)
[children unknown]
About Charles Lawrence Smith
Notes:
Richard P Smith was born on 8/10/37 in Norfolk VA. His mom and dad (Grandma & Grandpa) were: Laura Hassel Smith
(don't have info on her) and Charles Lawrence Smith born 12/26/1893 in Tyrell County, North Carolina.
Greatgrandpa - Josephus C. Smith born in Tyrell County, NC 7/1855 and Greatgrandma Sylvey P. Phelps Smith was
born in Washington County NC on 9/12/1858.
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Christopher Smith's Paternal 2x Great-Grandfather:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal 3x Great Grandfather:
Josephus C. Smith (1856 - 1926)
Josephus C. “Joe” Smith, Sr
Birthdate: July 1856
Birthplace: Beaufort, North Carolina
Death: April 13, 1926 in Columbia, Tyrrell, North Carolina
Burial: Cherry, Washington County, North Carolina
Parents:
Batson B. Smith
1833–1882
Mary Ann Ambrose
1840–1916
Family
Spouse:
Sylvania V. Phelps
Also known as: "Sylvey", “Silvia”, "Sylvania P. Phelps"
Birth: July 12, 1858
Married: February 27, 1879 in Washington County
Death: November 18, 1898 in Scuppernong, Washington County, North Carolina
Burial: Nehemiah W. Ambrose Cemetery, Cherry, Washington County, North Carolina
Children:
1. James B Smith (1879–1954)
2. Lillie S. Smith (1882–1925)
3. Joseph Cephus Smith, Jr. (1884–1953)
4. Iredell Sylvanus Smith (1887–1962)
5. Mary M. McCabe (1887–1979)
6. Harrison Garfield Smith (1888–1939)
7. Hester Gertrude Smith Snell (1891–1975)
8. Charles Lawrence Smith (1893–1970)
9. Lucille Hollis (1902–1972)
10. Jessie A Smith (1906–1968)
About Josephus C. Smith
When Josephus C Smith was born in July 1855, his father, Batson, was 22 and his mother, Mary, was 14. He had five
sons and five daughters with Sylvania V. Smith between 1879 and 1906. He died on April 13, 1926, in Columbia,
North Carolina, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cherry, North Carolina.
Sylvey Phelps
Capehart's Baptist Church, Bertie County, NC
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/church/cape2.txt
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Christopher Smith's Paternal 3x Great-Grandfather:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal 4x Great Grandfather:
Batson Bartimus Smith (1833 – 1882)
Also Known As: "William McDonald"
Birthdate: March, 1833
Birthplace: South Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina
Death: September 10, 1882 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, City Poor Lot, Mattapan, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Plot: Section C, grave 65, row 22
Parents:
Jasper Smith
Charlotta
Family 1
Spouse:
Mary Ann Campen
Also known as: "Mary Ann Ambrose" (married Nehemiah W. Ambrose in 1855)
Birthdate: October 22, 1840
Birthplace: Hyde, North Carolina
Married: August 19, 1856 in Beaufort, North Carolina
Death: October 9, 1916 in Scuppernong, Washington, North Carolina
Burial: Nehemiah W. Ambrose Cemetery, Cherry, Washington County, North Carolina
Children:
1. Josephus C Smith (1855–1926)
Family 2
Spouse:
Ann McKearnan
Also known as: "Ann McCarron"
Birthdate: abt 1836
Birthplace: Ireland
Marriage: 21 May 1869 in Boston, Massachusetts
Death: July 2, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts
Burial: Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Plot: Lot 106, Row 2 west
[no children]
About Batson Bartimus Smith
Batson was born in March 1833 in South Creek, North Carolina, the son of Ms. Charlotta McDonald and Jasper Smith.
He married Mary Ann Ambrose and they had three children together. He then married Ann McCarron on May 21, 1869,
in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on September 10, 1882, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 49, and was
buried in Mattapan, Massachusetts.
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Christopher Smith's Paternal 4x Great-Grandfather:
Maylyn Ann Smith's Paternal 5x Great Grandfather:
Jasper Smith (1800 - )
Birthdate: between 1795-1804
Birthplace: Ireland
Death: [date unknown] in Beaufort, North Carolina
Parents Unknown
Family 1
Spouse:
Ann Carron
[no children]
Family 2
Spouse:
Charlotta McDonald
Also known as: "Charlott"
Birthdate: between 1800-1805
Birthplace: unknown
Married: unknown
Home in 1860: Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina
Home in 1880: McNeill, Moore County, North Carolina
Death: [date unknown] in Beaufort, North Carolina
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Angus McDonald (1769 - 1861) and Catherine Buchanan (1776 - 1856)
See: McDonald Line
Children:
1. Batson Bartimus Smith (1833–1882)
About Jasper Smith
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=ywQ41&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gl=42&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Jasper%20&gsfn_x=1&gsln=Smith&gsln_x=1&msbdy=1800&msbpn__ftp=Ireland&msbpn=3250&mssng=Charlotta&mscng=Batson&mscns=Smith&MSAV=1&uidh=9x3
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Smith Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Smith family
The surname Smith was first found in Durham, in present day Northumbria (North-Eastern England) where an Olde English version of the name is cited in circa 975, almost 100 years before the Normans would invade this part of England. Some of the family moved to Mount Thoydon in Essex. "The church [of Mount Thoydon] is a handsome edifice, containing many fine monuments to the family of Smyth, among which is one to Sir Thomas Smyth, chancellor of the garter, and principal secretary of state, in the reigns of Edward VI. and Elizabeth." "Wootton Hall [in Wooton-Wawen, Warwickshire] was early the seat of the Smythe family, of whom was Lord Carrington, who, at the battle of Edge-Hill, bravely redeemed the royal standard, as is recorded on his monument in Christ-Church, Oxford. Over the front entrance of the Hall are the arms, finely executed in relief, of Lord Carrington. "
It is difficult to attempt to chronicle such a common name as Smith. Smith [and its variants] is easily the most common surname in Britain and figures in the top ten of surnames in Ireland in various polls over many centuries, being also number one in Ulster. The name, of course, is occupational and may derive from any worker in metal but most commonly from blacksmith, armourer or farrier. Prior to the invention of mechanized travel, the horse was the most important method of carriage for personal, trade and military purposes and wherever there were horses there had to be a "smith". It is not surprising therefore that the trade gave rise to a multitude of surnames which arose independently all across the English speaking world and indeed further afield. At the outset it is important to mention that the spelling of the name as Smith, Smyth, Smithe, Smythe, etc. is of little historical significance. The use of "i" and "y" and the presence or absence of the terminal "e" merely reflect the writing styles of the day.
In an Irish context (which is the self imposed scope of this feature) Smith may be the anglicised form of one of several native septs, the name of Scottish families transplanted into Ulster or simply from English families who settled in the country over the centuries.
Of the native Irish families, that of Mac an Gabhain of Breffny is the most important. Mac an Gabhain literally means "son of the smith" and has been variously anglicised as McGowan (later simply Gowan) as well as Smith and Smyth and also as Smithson. The usual modern gaelic form is MacGabhain. The name is still common in all its forms in county Cavan where the many of Smiths are of this family. On the borders of Breffny, in Co. Leitrim, and to the north west in Counties Donegal and Sligo, the true form in English, MacGowan, is still used in preference to Smith.
A branch of the family known as Cruthnean Dail hAraide of counties Antrim and Down, of which Hugh O Gowan was chief in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, was transplanted to County Cavan because they aided the O Neills. Other families remained in County Down, Anglicizing their name to Smith or Smythe.
In Ballygowan, County Down, an O Gowan sept Anglicized its name to Smith, and a distinguished descendant of this family reintroduced the original O Gowan name, with the full agreement of the Irish Genealogical Office, in 1949. This was Major-General Eric Dorman-Smith, a brilliant military tactician, who was born in 1895 at Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, County Cavan. His youngest brother, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, was Governor of Burma at the time of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War. Apart from this family, the form O Gowan is rarely encountered in modern times. It is, however, to be found in the census of 1659 as one of the principal Irish names in the counties of Monaghan and Fermanagh.
In medieval times the Ghabhainn clan families of counties Clare and Tipperary were hereditary historians to the O Loughlins of Burren and the O Kennedys of Ormond.
Among the many alternative forms of the name recorded in the statistical returns of the Registrar-General, the most usual, apart from Smith, are Mageown and Magown. Further confusion arises from the fact that the Gaelic surname MacDhubhiin, a family of Raphoe, Co. Donegal, and also of Co. Clare, where the anglicized form is MacGuane, has become MacGowan in Co. Mayo; while Mac Gamhna (normally Gaffney) is also rendered MacGowan in some places.
Two MacGowans of Irish ancestry have distinguished themselves abroad: in the U.S.A. Samuel MacGowan (1819-1897), a Presbyterian, jurist and Confederate soldier; and in New Zealand, James MacGowan (1841- 1912), statesman. Faelan Mac an Ghabhan was one of the scribes of the Book of Ui Maine (1394).
Numerous Irish Smiths and MacGowans served in the Irish armies in the seventeenth century. They also served with Charles I, and were soldiers of the Commonwealth in Ireland and, later, in the French and American brigades.
In Scotland the name MacGow was, in Gaelic, MacGobha also meaning "son of the smith", was anglicised as both Gow and Smith. There were Gows or MacGowans, a sept of Clan MacPherson, long known as Sliochd an Ghobha Chrom, the "race of the bandy legged smith", from their ancestor Henry Gow of the Wynd. These Smiths became a clan in their own right, being one of the seventeen tribes of the great Clan Chattan federation. The names Gow, Gowan and Smith are also common all over Scotland. MacGobhainn, anglicised as MacGowan and Smith, was the name of a family, which was hereditary smiths to the Clan Donald. Many of the Ulster Smiths descend from one or other of these Scottish families.
Many Smiths of Kilkenny and Tipperary descend from William Smith of Damagh, who was secretary to the Earl of Ormonde. It is recorded that the Earl "was well pleased that William Smith of Damagh, Co. Kilkenny, should bear some parcel of his arms for diligent services done by him to the said Earle". It is also noted that William "was brought out of England to my service". William's son, Lawrence, was slain in the service of King Charles at the siege of Drogheda. The family line continued through Lawrence's son, Valentine.
Many other Smith families of English origin are found, especially in the area around Dublin. These included Smith of Maine, County Louth and Smith of Annsbrook, County Meath (a branch of Maine). In 1646 William Smith started his fifth term as Lord Mayor of Dublin. He was a Colonel in a regiment of foot that protected the city and was of a Yorkshire family that later settled in Suffolk. Several other members of this Yorkshire family are also recorded in Ireland. In 1677, John Smith was Lord Mayor of Dublin. He was of the same family as the Carrington-Smiths, whose ancestor was on the Crusades with King Richard. Captain Robert Smith, who was of an English family in Dirleton, Haddington became Athlone Pursuivant of Arms or assistant to the Ulster King of Arms. His son, Robert Soden-Smith held a position at the South Kensington Museum in London. The Prendergast-Smyth family help the title of Baron Kiltartan and Viscount Gort. This family was originally from county Down and included several clerics - Thomas Smyth was bishop of Limerick 1695-1725 and his son, Arthur, bishop of Dublin in 1766. It was the grandson of the bishop of Limerick, John Prendergast-Smyth, who received the titles. This family claimed to be descended from the O Gowans of county Down, however, they bore a quite different coat of arms. Another prominent English family of the name was centred in Waterford.
Smith Spelling Variations
One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The spelling variations under which the name Smith has appeared include Smith, Smyth, Smythe and others.
Above image: Smith Family Crest / Irish Coat of Arms
Smith Ancient Tartan - Lochcarron of Scotland
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See also:
Ramsey Line
Warr Line
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