English (mainly Nottinghamshire): apparently a habitational name
from a lost or unidentified place, perhaps so called from Old English
smeðe ‘smooth’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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