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Roy gordon Smith mentions his Smith line in Walton on the hill. ie.william Smith 1815 married a Margaret Voce in 1839. I have the Voce family walton farmers in my tree if he would like a contact.
a superb site
many thanks
Laraine

I am a cousin of Arthur Ward Swenson. On a Smith family web page it notes that: "Sadie Marguerite (Peggy) Newton was the first wife of Albert SMITH.
Sadie (Peggy) was married first to Arthur Ward Swenson. They married on March 14, 1931 in Burnaby, B.C. The ceremony was done by Rev. J. White and it was at 3:00 p.m. At the time, Peggy lived at 1813 Morton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. and Ward was living at the Rialto Hotel in Vancouver, B.C. Peggy's attendent was Katherine (Billie) McDonald and Ward's attendent was his brother, Leslie W. Swenson." I am trying to track down any living descendants of Arthur Swenson or Leslie Swenson.

Thank you for all our comments. Please join us on our sister site www.smithchat.com to share family information. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

hello all

I was just looking for a Jeremiah Smith he was my mother mother father and come from Ribchester born 1800/01 his wife was a Alice Bennett who also came from Ribchester

Robert Smith of Barshaw, Paisley, 1759-1841, subscribed to Mills Ancient Ordinances etc of the Isle of Man (1821). Since I've not 100% IDed his origins, could it be he came from the Isle of Man? He was well established as a thread manufacturer at Paisley by 1787.

I have just stumbled onto this site and pleased to find a Smith site. I expect to find it an excellent networking tool and am hopeful that I will find some common ancestors/ Descendants among other visitors as I start to explore it.
I have traced my Smith line in Liverpool and Walton-on-the-Hill back to 1790s so far, to James Smith. His son William Smith (Born circa 1815) married Margaret Voce in 1839 and had 5 Boys and 5 Girls(The Voces were Walton Farmers). William and his father James Smith were flour dealers and Bakers in Liverpool and have entries in the 1796,1821 and 1842 trade directories. Well done to the Site owners
Good Luck to all you "Smith" investigators
Roy Gordon-Smith

Thank you all for your comments and if you wish to share more information please visit your sister site www.smithchat.com where we share information.

I was very interested to see the marriage of Jane Marsland, daughter of William Marsland, hatter, to James Smith in 1856. Jane is the sister of my great great grandfather, Joshua Marsland, and this is the first piece of information I've received on his siblings.

Greetings fellow Smiths. I'm researching my grandparents William Smith and Esther,ne. Grierson. They resided in Preston, Lanc. and Brierfield, Lanc.
Tks for any help.

carole mary has responded to my search for frances do i leave my email address with my message? or can she get it from somewhere else on the site?sorry have not had a response before.thank you jenny.

hi mary thank you for your message i have found frances in surrey,she is my niece,i am sure she would love to hear from you please contact me on my email.jenny.

message for Jenny re Frances Smith . I am distantly related by marriage to Frances Smith who is my sister-in-laws' cousin. Frances and I were bridesmaids at my brother, Leo, and his wife, Kathleen Shaw's wedding in 1960. I have no idea where Frances lives now and have lost touch with Kathleen. It was interesting to see your mail though

Hi Great site , My gggrandfather was joseph smith born st Aulkmunds derby eng,1804. married Mary hickling came to Australia in 1857 mary followed in 1858 he was a engineer/ surveyer, a were most of his male children, Joseph ,clarence , frederick, william they lived in lancashire area for a time, any help to go any further back would be great. regards to all

Hi

I'm looking for Smith Families that lives in Kent, England.

Great site never thought I'd find so many 'Smiths'
Is anyone looking for Aloysuis Stanilaus Smith b 1870 to John Smith and Margaret Mary Hindley?
thank you

Hi fellow Smiths ! I live in Halifax west yorkshire but my dad and grandad were from stonehaven in scotland , anyone got any info ?

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TRYING TO TRACE FRANCES SMITH WHO I BELIEVE LIVED IN WAKEFIELD OR LEEDS 1950S 1960S MOTHER WINNIE FATHER WASLEY

would any body have any information regarding eliza and albert smith there children were elizabeth, william,sydney,albert,ellen and frederick they lived at park row normanton 1901.

I got your website from a 3C1R, who lives in UK & whom I found on Ancestry.
My Dad's family were millworkers in the Halifax area for several generations, my Mum's family were Pollards from the Burnley area
I was born in Burnley in 1928 and now live in NY State.

I can trace my roots to Ralph Smith of New Jersey, circa 1600's. Some sites say he was born in England others to Cape Cod and the Plymouth Colony. They were all sea captains and boat builders. The John Smith at Cape Cod is squetchy. I know THE John Smith was supposed to have borne no children ??

Greetings--my Ancestry.com account has led me to Captain John Smith (of Jamestown fame), but he is not known to have had any children through Pocahontas, at least not formally so. Yet the Smith and Hiatt families trace their lineage to a Peregrine Smith, allegedly the son of Captain Smith and Pocahontas. That is where my Ancestry.com account leads me. If true, then I am likewise descended from the "ancient Smiths of Crudley, Lancashire."

i am trying to trace the smith heratage i am "hitting a brick wall" my great grandfather was orin smith he married an indian woman(native american) Please help

Hey!
The name smith's motto is: Semper Fidelis meaning Always Faithful
Hope this can help in any way :)
(Im from Scotland so this website can't really help lol)
byee x

** note from Carole, 25 March 09
** Thanks Lucy - that's interesting about the Smith motto!! Hope you'll please register at Smith Chat (link at top of this page) and share your Scottish Smith interests on the Board "Other Counties of England, Scotland, Wales". Hoping for more Scottish Smith interests to be posted there, so that eventually can start a separate board for "Smiths of Scotland".
Hope to chat again to you there, at some time in the future.

Help!!!!! I registered some time ago but decided to do further research before contributing to your site. Now I've forgotten my user name and password. How do I re-register?

**Note from Carole - 25 March 09
**Hi Jeremy - sorry about the delayed response - I'll contact you off-site.

hey i want to thank you for having this info i've beein looking everywhere for something about my history. Smith it really popular and not all that easy to find what you want when looking on the web so thanks

Just saying hello and trying to start a family tree and do research for myself all i know is that there is Irish and Spanish in our ancestry,my father was Smith and my mother s maiden name was Pembridge.
My fathers mother also kept a dark secret way back somewhere was a black ancestry which no one knew until her death as my sister is tacking down there ancestry.
Any way must go now thank you for listening great page, i live in Queensland,Australia

** note from Carole, 25 March 09
** Hi Colleen, this is interesting. Hope you'll please register at Smith Chat (link at top of this page) and share these interests on either one of the messageboards - "Ireland" or "Emigrants to Australia" - or if applicable on the "Other UK Counties" Board. Hope to chat again to you there.

HAPPY NEW YEAR and Thank you for all recent posts in the Guestbook. It's always good to see new posts here.

A lot of time and effort has recently been put into improving navigation of the Smith Chat Forums and preparation of a navigation-help tutorial/topic for the convenience of our Users, along with improved indexing of old and new "Help & FAQs" Topics.

The tutorial can be found at the url given below (you'll need to copy and paste it) and I would welcome feedback about it at Smith Chat, from anyone who has followed this navigation topic/trail

SITE NAVIGATION HELP - please see..........
http://www.smithchat.com/regulations-help-faqs-f16/site-navigation-help-parts-1-7-t4063.htm

I find the site difficult to use. I have put some information on the "new member site" and it appears to have ended up on thwe IoM site. All I want to do is to pass information to as wide a range of Smith descendants as possible. How do I do this? and how do I recieve a reply?
Regards
Kingskerswell
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Inserted - reply from Carole, Admin:

Hi kingskerswell
There has been some misunderstanding here. I think you must have posted this Guestbook message before reading my reply to you at Smith Chat. It was believed that your Smith/Morrison interests message would be more appropriately placed and moved to the Ireland board (not the Isle of Man Board, which is currently closed) and with a copy to the West Riding of Yorkshire Board. Please see further reply to your other queries at this link........
http://www.smithchat.com/coffee-break-chit-chat-f40/9-january-2009-11pm-gmt-forums-back-to-normal-access-t4089.htm#21308

Looking for ancestors of Mary Ann Shepherd married George Smith from Southwark.
ANY Welsh Smiths out there?

After long hours searching different sources with very limited free information I found your great site and certainly I will join the Chat Group soon. By the way, for ancestors in West Derby and Formby, will Liverpoool be the appropriate one?

My great grandfather was Edmund Whaley Smith and his birth certificate states that he was born in West Derby in 1849, the son of Thomas Seddon Smith (attornery at law) and Jane Whaley.

Edmund Whaley Smith had at least two brothers: Thomas Seddon and George. I know the family at some moment also lived in Formby before my great granfather Edmund Whaley Smith moved to Chile, South America before 1879.

I understand that Dora Hughes Smith (probably in her early tweenties in 1911 and resident of Liverpool at that time) can be related to the part of the family who stayed in England.

Any help will be appreciated. I hope to post a few more details soon in the Forums. Congratulations to all those who make this site possible.

Carlos T. Smith

Are there any Smith,s out there with Charles Raymond Smith, married to Florence [Shaw ] as ancestors [married 23 april 1900 ]

i want to know were does the smith and what is the meaning for smith

Looking for Grandparents

Karin we will look into your technical difficulties.

THANK YOU to all of those who have added your comments in this Guestbook. Some of you have already also posted your interests at our Smith Chat Forums. Those of you who haven't done that yet - I hope that you soon will do so, in order to receive feedback from other researchers who might share your area of interest.

Hi Carole,

I am sorry for contacting you this way but I am finding it very difficult to log in. It's been quite some time that I have been trying without success.
I have even tried a new e-mail address.

Looking forward hearing from you,
Enjoy the evening,
Regards,
Karin.

Message to Gillian.
You may be interested to know that a Witham painting "Germanicus" sold at southerbies in 1998 for £24k

Cool site will pass it on to my family who are doing our family tree.

Philip Smith Age 48 Oldham Lancs

Hey, guys who is running this site? Well, who ever is running this site, please, get back to me as soon as possible. In the States, so keep the time difference in mind. Thanks.

I am trying to find any family members of Sam Leening born 1851 married Mary Nelson born 1859 married 1885 West Riding of Yorkshire. thank you
Donald

Hi,
I just googled Alfred Mazzini Smith, who is my Great grandfather and was amazed to find him on this website. My grandfather was Harry Smith, first son to his 2nd wife Margaret Goodyear. I would love to hear from the people who are distantly related to me, as I am desperately in need of a photo of Alfred Mazzini----if anybody has one.

My father Arnold Fewster Smith was born in 1900 and registered in SUB-Dist. of Northowram.His father ws Charles Raymond Smith,mother was Florence {formerly Shaw ].residing at 12 Bolton Str. Halifax....Has anyone any more info. on this family?Pls.contact me at Email address above.....Thanks

just came across your site as an old morley resident i thought i would just say hi from oz. keep up the good work

I was trawling the internet for smiths origin in Ingleton Yorkshire and was directed to your sites - amazingly saw a "chat" from someone looking for the same relatives as my hubby. Joseph Waller Smith - Great site so far.

I am a great great grandson of Joseph and Elsie Smith of Ossett England. They were born in 1840.
My great grand father was joseph Smith who married Mary Chappel in Ossett England and immigrated to the US in 1889 to Philadelphia PA.
I have no prior history and wondered if you had the information i was looking for.
Thank You
John Graver
US

This is a great and a very interesting website website (nice to read and with great pictures). I will tell all my relatives about it. A real pleasure to explore! Go ahead, best regards from www.katzer.pl (Katzer - the name, the roots, the origin. Family genealogy and local history.)
I have been interested in family history as long as I can remember. Nicolas Katzer, the court astronomer of Henry VIII is the oldest certified person by the name of Katzer we know.

THANK YOU to all of those who have added your comments in this Guestbook. Some of you have already also posted your interests at our Smith Chat Forums. Those of you who haven't done that yet - I hope that you soon will do so, in order to receive feedback from other researchers who might share your area of interest.

The Smith Project/ Chat Team

TRYING TO TRACE ALBERT SMITH AND PARTNER BETTY WHO MOVED TO AMERICA LATE 1950 EARLY 1960'S POSSIBLY CALIFORNIA

Looking for English origin of Richard Smith b 1627, immigrated to Northumberland, Virginia,USA 1657, married Anne Hull 1669, d 1678.

Great site. Well done! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the congrats Carolle babies grow so fast almost walking now. I am still looking for Grandad Smiths sister Mary born 1867 in Askam in Furness came to Canada 1890 with the family she went to California and either married there or before she left Canada haven't had any luck from our vital stats hope to soon. Your site is great take care and good luck to all those looking for Smith ancestor. Ruth

THANK YOU to all of those who have added your comments in this Guestbook. Some of you have already also posted your interests at our Smith Chat Forums. Those of you who haven't done that yet - I hope that you soon will do so, in order to receive feedback from other researchers who might share your area of interest.

The Smith Project/ Chat Team

Great Site... PLEASE ADD ME...THANK YOU

How does one search for other family names other than Smith?

To make a connetion

Greetings!
Just found this site. Looking for distant cousins in England or any information on the parents, Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles of William B. Smith
born about 11 Oct 1808 in Needingworth Huntigdonshire, or "shisre" England. He immigrated to NY (?) and was married about 1837 to Laura Bartlett who was from Nova Scotia, CAN. They lived in New York for a few years before moving to Fairhaven , Caroll co., IL

Any help in finding out more Information on William B. Smith ( including his Middle name "B") and who his parents were...is MUCH appreciated!

Thank you,

Donice

What a lovely Site thanks for your message Carole, Iam connected to the late Thomas Smith born 25th May 1819 who came to Australia onboard the Vessel/Barge Hope 1837-1839 I have received information regarding this family from other ancestors, stating that Thomas's father was William Smith (farmer) Blackpool and mother was Martha Fitten. Other queries was that William Smith and a Nancy Collinson was Thoma's father and mother. William Smiths father and mother was William also and Margaret Bleasdale. Thomas's grandparents, no records of marriage etc. to confirm this. Still looking.

Regards,
Janet Pritchard (nee Smith)

i would like to find my grandfather called thomas darren kirk but i dont know where to start if someone could help me it would be much appricated.

Looking for my grandfather Thomas Smith from Liverpool d.o.b 1st April 1900 (well he told us that no
Birth certificate matches)
Sent as a Home Children with his little sister Catherine/Katherine to Canada in approx 1910 when his was 10 years old.
Father name was Samuel occupation Labourer.
Does anyone have family from possibly West Derby way a large Family of Smiths sent two of their littlest or eldest children off to Canada to be rehomed.
Catherine/Katherine was adopted we think.
The saddest thing, at the dockside the two children got split up never to meet or see each other again. My beloved grandfather was traumatized by this all his life, and never got over losing his little sister.
Maybe anyone from Canada looking for Smiths in Liverpool England, where there grandmother was originally from may read this and contact me. Help Please.

As we know trying to trace the name of Smith is endless, and at times daunting.
This is an amazing project,and has today, just given me a little light at the end of the tunnel, and has lifted my spirits to find so many Smiths in one organized site is fantastic. Rather than, trawl through endless boring census and birth indexes.
Well done for this site.
Looking for a large family of Smiths from Liverpool in 1900, there must be for sure a connection
somewhere on your site. Thank goodness you started something quite spectacular for all the Smiths out there!!!!!

VERY GOOD SITE

THANKS MICHELLE FOR YOUR HELP BUT THE FRANCIS IAM LOOKING FOR IS FEMALE

Hi, looking for Francis Smith, Married Lilian Goundry!
Fed up with the pay to see sites, that still dont come up with anything.
All i know is he married Lillian Goundry, Children:
Rita, Marjorie, Laurence, Betty, Ronald, Frank!
Any help!
PLEASE!

I am trying to trace Francis nee Smith who lived in Leeds or Wakefield,father Wasley mother Winnie,grand father Frederick,is there any one out there that knows her.

I have been looking for a website just like this. It is fantastic. I have been doing my family tree since 1988.
Most website you have to pay to get very little. I hope I can get some contacts from relatives. I know I'm just a new member but this is great. Thanks to all

nice site ................................................................................................................................................

(REPLY: Thank you Kenzo, but the URL you inserted here was unknown, so it has been removed, Carole, Site owner)

THANK YOU to all of those who have added your comments in this Guestbook since it re-opened here at the new site in June this year. Some of you have already also posted your interests at our Smith Chat Forums. Those of you who haven't done that yet - I hope that you soon will do so, in order to receive feedback from other researchers who might share your area of interest.

WISHING A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2007 and NEW YEAR 2008 to all Smith Project & Smith Chat members and guests.

From Carole and the Smith team.

During the 19th century there were numerous Smiths in West Derby, just outside Liverpool. Confusion arises because sometimes they are listed as coming from Liverpool or Walton-on-the-Hill, but if West Derby could be mentioned as well as any other name, it would be a great help in putting the families. together.

Only have one ? Mary Smith married to Henry Cowburn
11 dec 1833 Cathedral, Manchester Lancashire Eng
Can any one help me verify or Disgard if she is the one Thay lived in Lower Darwen.

Hi i am trying to trace my family on my fathers side. My grandparents were Rosemary and Billy Smith, they had billy arthur jeanette joan and gerard, and they all lived at 136 Marlborough Rd opposite the duke of york pub. The last address I have for Billy smith(grandfather) was 6 Kirklees walk in Prestwich. Jeanette was married to a man called bobby Salt. I am drawing a blank everywhere is there anybody out their that knows or could give advice on how I might move this search forward?

Would anybody over are related to late of Egbert Robert Smith died Nov 1908 and his wife Sophia died 1912 they are be buried Longbridge Deverill Uk.
We would like if anybody had a obituatry notice of this people or relationfrom Australia ?.
Which our Grandmother was a smith and died in Australia and we don't know how we have a photo of a headstone grave and memory card notice it came from Uk it was found in a estates papers .
regards E & R Ind .

I found this site some time ago and think it's great. Just wish I could spend more time online but there are so many other things need doing - more's the pity!

Hello wpaxfstephanie, thanks for your message. Its always good to know who's been here browsing.

We'll be glad to do whatever we can to help trace your Scottish Smith roots, if you'd care to please also post your interests on Smith Chat's "Around the UK & Ireland" Forum - on the Board for "Other Counties of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES". (See menu above left - go to Smith Chat Gateway - where you'll find a preview of the layout of Smith Chat and links to the Forum). If you post the details there that you have about William, Robert and Elizabeth, no matter how brief - its OK - we'll see you there later!! Also - more chance of other researchers of Scottish Smiths seeing your message there too.

Have a great weekend, Carole

hello to all I am very pleased to have come across this site for i hope someone can help me. my ancestors came from Scottland william and robert smith and they came to us in abt.1810 and Robert married an elizabeth little great thanks in advance if anyone knows anything cause thats all i have

Hello Ruth, Nice to see you called in. Congratulations on the births of your new grandchildren!! My newest grandson was born in May. Aren't they wonderful!! Hope you'll call in at Chit-Chat at Smith Chat sometime Ruth. We'll be glad to see you there.

Have a great day!!

Carole

Great work sorry I have not visited for awhile but am really busy and am moving back to Kingston in Nov. and have had 3 new Great Grandbabies over the Summer 2 girls and 1 boy. So very busy but will try and keep in touch. Take care Ruth

Hi to you all,
we NEED some help over here in Germany.
Trying to locate my husband's half brother, who doesn't know he has three other brothers on this planet. The Mother was married very young to somebody called Williams, her name was Elizabeth Smith, born 02 March 1938 in Salford. My usband found out on his birth certificate, but she never told him the name of her first son or anything.
How can we find her 1st marriage ceritficate and how can we find out about her son? She never said whether he stayed with his Father or may be was adopted, nor the exact year of birth.
Can anybody help,please. WE'd love to find this man and tell him about all the other family he has got.
Any suggestions are very much appreicated.
Regards from Germany,
HEIKE

Thanks for the recent comments. Good to see that some have already discovered the new Guestbook. Alan & Maxine - thankyou - faithful followers! Sylvia - great to see another old Darwen Grammar pupil here! & thanks for your kind remarks. Peter & Penny, & Jo - thanks for posting info about your Smith family history interests. Sorry that for security reasons, email addresses aren't displayed in the Guestbook - but for sharing with others & getting feedback & help with your research, hope you'll decide to register at Smith Chat & post your interests there. See Menu, top left of this page, for link to the Forums Index. You'll be made most welcome & hope to see you there. Carole

Hi there, Iv just started on my smith family and would love some help ! William Hayward Smith married Rosa Hill West Derby Lancashire 1860. Williams Father was John born 1812 and mother Mary born 1812. william had children William 1862 Laura 1864 Arthur1865 and Clara 1867. they came to NZ about 1874, any help would be to a conection would be grate . Thanks Jo

Hi Carole
Penny (my other half) and I are visiting the UK on a family search/holiday from Australia. So far I have my Smith family back to David Gilbert Smith in Rotherhithe, Surrey in 1819 (perhaps Giles Smith c1790) so we may not have a Lancashire connection. I wish you well with your contined search activity and would be happy to help any Smiths searching for Australian connections.
best wishes, Peter & Penny Smith

Well done Carole,
It Is coming together now and looks fab.

I have found your site through Friends Reunited and I am very impressed. I was at DGS but my family were from Northumberland. However, my husband's family were from Horwich and district so I have lots of interest in Lancashire. The linked sites are always worth looking at. Many thanks for sharing all your work. best wishes, Sylvia

Well done Carole, the new site is looking good now, it all seems to be falling into place. I know you'll be glad when you've finished all these changes so that you can get on with updating the Smith interests list. You'll get there. Good work.

Hello there to all Visitors, and existing Smith Project and Smith Chat Members. Well here is the new Guestbook, at last!! Opened today 27th June 2007. The Old Guestbook was closed in April this year - having been accessed by "spambots". This one is more secure & can be monitored more easily. The Old Guestbook (excluding the "spam") now copied and viewable on this new site. Please sign the new book & get it started!! & its always nice to know who visited.
Thanks for your interest.
Carole, in Blackburn Lancashire England