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Ha, Cynthia, lucky you added that, or I would have been directing you to the threads that say *Give a county name!!*

Daff, fancy names in Devon and Cornwall? Yeah, like mine ... Hill ...

I was surprised at how many Marriotts there are kicking around England. When I found I had a Marriott ancestor (Leicestershire, I think, 1700s-ish) I was quite impressed, it sounded very posh. Oh well. ;) Same with a name on my dad's side, quite uncommon here, they litter the landscape in England. And of course they all have the same given names, whether they be in Wiltshire (mine) or Gloucestershire or Norfolk or Essex or Somerset or Kent ... Richard, Thomas and Benjamin for the boys. The Cornwall/Devon Hills are all James and William, of course. And the Nottinghamshire Coopers (with the Smith ancestor) are Samuel and William and Hannah and Sarah, to a person ... except for my Reuben, which you would think would make him easy, but noooo.

Shelly, that's a Nathan Marriott came to Canada? Let me know if I can help with that one!

I can throw a family of Smiths from Dysart in if you like - but they go back to 1700 and whatever, so too old even for you JC!! Now Taylors I can provide by the zillion! Cx.


Oh yes, knowing your lack of knowledge on places over here .....Dysart is in Fife, which is in Scotland....lol

No Smiths, sorry, Janey... a couple of Jones, one my side another 'im indoors... then we have the Williams, Roberts and Edwards...... thank goodness for my Cornish and Devon lot with their fancy surnames, lol

However.... I do have a Marriot... married in, but their son is a blood rellie cos the Marriot married my unusually-named blood rellie.

I do apologise if that doesn't make sense.... I have mislaid my sensible brain cell, and the mad one has been left without a minder. It is wreaking havoc!

Love

Daff xxxx

Just look at all these people hanging around being bone idle, whom I have prodded into doing something productive now. ;)

Maybe it will rub off on me!

Me, I had a job due four minutes ago, another half hour of work to do on it ...

janey i wouldent no if how smith married a dennis or not as the smith branchies away from hubby direct line so have not gone in to them that much

how marriotts are from Barton, Cambridgeshire, England
then moved to west ham essex

and now looks like how nathan went to canadia and we did wounder what happend to him after doing 9 morh for man sloter and then re-joining the army

so your thread came in use to me made me go and check on the smith
and marroitt lot

so thank you xx

O' MRS C
'AVE YOU ANY OFTHOSE IN YOUR LOT

now puts on really posh twinset an pearls voice
I WILL HAVE YOU KNOWMRS C
I AM MEMBER OF THE BROOKINGS SOCIETY
VERY ELETE
OKAY THE ONLY ILLIGITIMATE SIDE,
BUT STILL THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE


NOW MUST ROUND UP 2 GR MEN LOL

Hey Dizzi - butt out, get your own thread. ;)

Tryphoena was actually a popular name in Northamptonshire -- there seem to be pockets of the name around England at various times in the 19th century. The Carters and Craddocks were good solid ag labs. Who of course became shoe factory workers by the mid 1800s.

How exciting, all these cousins!

I have Marriotts too -- in Nottingham.

And Ernest's wife's clan has deep roots in Romford and surrounds. Any of those Romford Smiths marry any Dennis-s?? First cousin twice removed by marriage (or something) Brian in Essex is the expert on that clan. Of course, he tried to deny the relationship when I first contacted him here at GR. ;)

Sigh, your grandparents leave mother England, nobody wants to know you any more ... unless they're looking for cheap vacations!

Come one come all; nice apartment will probably still be available for the horrible hot humid summer -- or now, the tulips have sprung, a nice early spring here.

GONNA REGRET THIS I THINK
OKAY
ANY
BROOKINGS.WEAVER.FINCH.
BUT MOST
"QUEENIE" BOOKINGS OR CARTER

JANEY TRY WEBSITE
ROMANEY GENES

Tryphoena
MAY JUST BE THERE

thank you janey i just went off to find hubby smith and fant some think intresting and that i dident no as my daughter nomaley finds this side

these are the smith i have


minnie smith 1901 – 1981 born havering died romford berried in ripple road cem

george william smith 1879 – 1929 born ilford died romford essex berried in ripple road cem

frederick smith 1914 – 1917 born romford died romford essex berried in ripple road cem


now intresting part is we have a nathan marriott neaves dobble barral name the neaves get drop along the line

but he marries an elizabeth ellen smith
now in 1928 thay arrive in queebc canadia
there is also a child i dient no about
flornce jane marriot

now also on the record on the same ship is a
christine dorice smith also from england but cheltenham
maybe relly maybe not ?

Oh, no I don't have any Smith's :-((((( ...........but I do have ancestors from Nottingham so somewhere along the way we MUST be related Janey! ;-)

*goes off to pack suitcase for my visit to my new found relative in Canada* ;-))

Mary

I like all the people who have Smiths but haven't tried tracing them. :) Kind of like me! Although I do think that with St Cleer, Cornwall, I may be in better luck than many -- a tiny parish with excellent parish records, thanks in part to one of my ancestors who was the parish clerk in the late 1700s. ;) (Was the Smith his ancestor? I forget ...)

Then there are those who deny having Smiths. Hmmmmm.

I think Running Bear may take the prize here! Two recent ancestors named John Smith.

Never mind about AuntyS. We do both have Charles Carters, but they're different -- but -- she is trying to claim my Ernest Monck/Hill and his family! If she were to succeed, of course, that would indeed give her Smiths, since the St Cleer Smith is on Ernest's mother's side. Ha.

.... Hey, how come nobody said *Did you search trees???*

There's one St Cleer Smith in a tree here at GR ... and two pages of Calverton Smiths! One of whom I may indeed recognize as one of mine!

One of my Gtx3 Grandmothers was an Ann Smith, in 1815 she married a Henry Shearman Fennell in Portsmouth Hampshire. I have not yet tried to trace her parents.

What fun it would be to do a one name study on SMITH. Zillions of John, Henry, William and George. Then we would have our Mary Ann, Ann, Annies, Mary Jane, Jane and various Eliza's and would not be enough space on my PC.

Couldn't resist it Janey!

A John Smith m. into my Morris family in 1840's Northamptonshire! I think you already know that I am from that other famous elusive name Jo... - and TheresaW if you would like to let me know a bit more about your Kings in West Ham I'll see if I can help. Only when you're ready, though!

Shelly - you might be very busy!

Look, I only popped in to see if I had any mail from OZ and dropped the duster - cheered me up no end!

I thought it was a long shot Teresa. I'm sure you'll find him one day.

:o)

Mine was earlier than that, around 1880, in West Ham *sigh* lol

No Smiths in my family (so far) lol

Teresa, a friend of mine on here has a Henry King in her tree b1937 in Dulwich.

Steve
:o)

Ooo yes please Shelly, as you know, it's Florence's Fathers family. They are likely to be in there too somewhere. But there were lots of Kings in the area, so they could be any of them. All John's and Henry's LOL