Smith

Smith family page

Louisa Esther Smith, nee de La Mare

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Smith family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Smith, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

This, the commonest of all UK surnames, comfortably ahead of Jones, Taylor and Williams, is renowned as being the most difficult for family historians to research, just because there are so many of them, and have been for a long time.

Contrary to popular misconception, the origins of the name have nothing to do with a blacksmith, or any other sort of smith. The name comes from the word smitan, meaning 'to smite', and as such is believed to have described not a worker in iron, but a soldier, one who smote. That he also probably wore armour, which he would have been required to repair, may have lead to the secondary meaning

Early records

The name has been present in Jersey since the 1620s, although our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, which was compiled not without an element of insular snobbery, ignores it.

The 14 baptisms registered between 1621 and 1778 were all girls.

Variants

• Smith
• Smyth
• Smithe
• Smythe
• Smiths
• Smithson

Family records

Family trees

• Jonathan Smith: 18th-21st centuries
• Arthur Smith: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

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• Smith baptisms in Jersey
• Smith marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Smith marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Smith burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Smith family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Smith family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Smith burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• James Smith, a silversmith and clockmaker was in business at 75 King Street in the 1830s and '40s, later in partnership with G Bensa
• Londoner Albert Smith became one of Jersey's most successful commercial photographers

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  1858 advertisement
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  A previously unrecorded Jersey photographer, W O Smith, advertised in 1859
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  1927
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  1940
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  1948
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  1948
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  1927
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  Smith and Son invoice, 1935

Family photo album

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  Constance Smith c1905
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  Constance Smith with bridesmaids, sisters Lily and Elsie, at her 1910 wedding to Jimmy Rimington
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  A Smith family gathering at Highfield, St Saviour c1909, photographed by Francis Foot
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  The Smith/Rimington wedding, 1910
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  Lily Smith in 1910
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  Constance Smith and friend Emmie c1920
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  Constance Smith and adopted daughter Doris with their children
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  Emelia Anna Thomas, nee Smith, born in Ireland in 1889, married George Randolph Thomas (1892-1958) of St Helier at All Saints in 1915. A seamstress, she made all her own clothes and her children's
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  George Randolph Thomas (1892-1958) and his wife Emelia Anna, nee Smith (1889-1984)
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  Joseph Smith and family
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  Hugh De La Mare Smith
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  Agnes and Kathleen Smith
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  The wedding of Charles John Thatcher (1884-1929), son of John and Jan, nee Laurens, and Emily Kate Smith (1890-1940) in Alverstoke, Hampshire in July 1918
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  Edith Mary Smith and Sonia
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  F Smith, Caesareans' right back, on a 1925 cigarette card
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  John Smith and Yvonne Medekeube, nee Jouault (1910-1979)
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  Christopher Henry Edmund Smith, born in Jersey in 1865 and emigrated to British Columbia, Canada
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  Dorothy Kathleen Mayne, nee Smith(1931-2019)
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  Dorothy Mayne, nee Smith, Simonne and Gary
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  John Farrant Smith and Yvonne Madelaine, nee Jouault (1910-1979)
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  Muriel Smith, nee Johnson (1897-1959)
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  AnnieTherese, Brenda and Marion Smith
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  Jane Burton, nee Smith (1818-1897)
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  John Thomas Smith and his children
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  John Thomas Smith (1890-1941) and Victoria May, nee Atherton
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  Joseph James Smith (1890-1916)
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  Kenneth Smith (1924-1970)
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  Melina Mary Smith, nee LeMiere and Emelia Anna Thomas, nee Smith
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  Margaret Napier Smith (1848-), AnniePink, AnnieTaylor, May Napier Taylor, 1903
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  PhilipTheophileSmith
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  Philip Theophile Smith
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  Sisters Clare, Alice and Mary Ann Smith (1889-1959)
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  Roma Natalie Smith (1924-2002)
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  Jane Sarah Smith, nee Edwards, Henry and Jane
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  Edmund De La Haye Horman (1860-1945) and Martha Spiers, nee Smith, at Utah
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  Australian Archbishop William Saumarez Smith (1836-1909)
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  Archbishop William Smith
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  Arthur Gustavus Smith (1838-1922)
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  Arthur Smith (1854-1928) and Marguerite, nee Clay
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  Annie Trewyn Smith (1896-1971)
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  Charles Thomas Smith (1907-1934)
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  Edward Hardy Smith, 1938, Liverpool
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  Clarence Ernest William Lane (1863-1929) and Annie Laura, nee Smith
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  Cyril John Smith and Gertrude Gladys, nee Smith
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  Emelia Anna Smith (1889-1984)
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  Emelia Anna Thomas, nee Smith, and Nancy Muriel Smith
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  Francis Henry Smith 1866-1931), Melina Mary, nee Le Miere, Anna Emilia and Francis Henry
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  George Smith (1859-1937) and Mary, nee Reddy
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  Ernest Albert Smith (1895-1960)
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  Annie Laura Smith (1868-1951) and daughter, Clarice Maud
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  William O'Brien (1865-1942), Amelia, nee Smith, Irene May, Mildred and Effie
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  Jane Elizabeth Smyth, nee Martin (1836-1924)
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  J E Smith, photographed around 1880 by Ernest Baudoux

Family gravestones

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  Smith - St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Smith - St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Smith - St John’s Church cemetery
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  Smith - St John’s Church cemetery
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  Smyth - St John’s Church cemetery
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  The grave of Great War casualty Francis Henry Smith at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery
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  The grave of Great War casualty George Harry Smith at Bonnay Communal Cemetery, near Corbie
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  The grave of Great War casualty Joseph James Smith at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
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  The grave of Great War casualty Percy Oliver Smith at Hagle Dump Cemetery, Ypres
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  The grave of Great War casualty Walter Smith at St Vaast Communal Cemetery, near Cambrai
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  The grave of Great War casualty Ernest Duhamel Smith at Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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