When Frances Dora Smith was born on 29 July 1832, in Blendon, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Oswald Smith of Blendon Hall, was 38 and her mother, Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, was 27. She married Claude George Bowes-Lyon 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne on 28 September 1853, in Bexley, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1832 and Bexley, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 5 February 1922, in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89, and was buried in Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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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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