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Gilbert Smith

Birth2 APR 1742 - Groton, Conn

Death7 Apr 1814 - Groton, New London, Connecticut, USA

MotherMary Denison Smith

FatherNathan Smith

Born in Groton, Conn on 2 APR 1742 to Nathan Smith and Mary Denison Smith. Gilbert Smith married Eunice Denison and had 4 children. He passed away on 7 Apr 1814 in Groton, New London, Connecticut, USA.

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Parents

Nathan Smith
1702 - 1784

Mary Denison Smith
1705 - 1793

Spouse(s)

Eunice Denison
1744 - 1793

Phebe Denison
1747 - 1833

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Amos Denison Smith
1778 - 1826

Gilbert R. Smith,
1766 - 1796

Martha Smith
1776 - 1860

Eunice Smith
1772 - 1809

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found in Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

found in Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

found in Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920

found in Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934

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Surname meaning for Smith

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. Americanized form (translation into English or assimilation) of various European surnames meaning ‘smith’ or ‘blacksmith’ for example German and Jewish Schmidt Dutch Flemish and North German Smit Ukrainian Rusyn or other Slavic Koval Slovak Kováč Slovenian Serbian and Croatian Kovač (see Kovac) and Jewish Kuznetz (see Kuznetsov). Native American: from English smith adopted as an occupational name for a smith often as a translation into English of a personal name based on an equivalent occupational name from any of the Native American languages such as Navajo atsidí ‎‘smith’ (see Atcitty). In most cases however the surname Smith was probably chosen because it is the most common (English) surname in North America (see 1 above). It is also the most common surname among Native Americans. Compare Blacksmith.