Your First Smith?

[jillruss]

Assuming that you're not actually called Smith, how far back in your family tree did you manage to get before you hit your first Smith?

I know it's not very nice if you ARE a Smith but I can remember my heart sank when I found my first one. 

I have a theory that, if you go far enough back in your family tree, everyone has a Smith in there somewhere. There must have been an awful lot of horses that needed shoeing in the old days!

I've only got 3 ( and 2 of them are only 'provisional' - i.e. still to be confirmed). Working backwards, my first is my ggggg grandmother Sarah Smith bp 1750, but I make up for it by having a great grandmother Beatrice Jones + all her ancestors.

I wonder if there is a Rootschatter out there who has actually gone back a few generations and has NOT found a Smith?

I'm not sure I'll believe you!!   

Jill

[PassionPlay]

Only one so far and she married a distant cousin, none in my direct line - yet!

Steph.

[Heather D]

Oh ...I feel deprived now ....just double-checked my tree and no Smiths!

Plenty of Brown, Williams and Davis ancestors to confuse me though 

[prozac]

My grandmother and her two eldest sisters were born Smiths.  My great grandmother married a Thomas Smith in 1910, but he died between 1917 - 1920, so we know no information on that side of the family.

[SooCatt]

I came across my first just the other day.  My 3x Gt Grandmother is the first, and -wait for it- she's a JANE! 

Susan
 

[moscan]

Have two.... first one was my grandfathers first wife... and the second is my brother in law... but with my other surnames, McDonnell and McMahon and Condon here in Ireland... I am snookered anyway..

Best wishes

Mo.

[Comosus]

My grandmother was a Smith, my GG Grandmother was a Smith and my GGG Grandmother was a Smith.  And they're not linked together at all.  Ironically though, I've been able to get back quite a long way with each line.  I'm back to c1790 with one, c1748 with another and c1777 with the other line.  I have a grand total of 75 Smiths on my family tree!

Andrew

[nashua]

My paternal great grandmother Laurina Skuse was illegitimate, but her mother Jane later married a John Smith ( not sure if he was Laurinas father). My maternal grandmother was a Jones, so not easy to trace either.

Nashua

[pipkim]

I carelessly married a Smith  , that's before I found I had an interest in Genealogy.

I've been concentrating on my family until recently, but now I've started on my husbands. The only problem so far, is that the possibilities are endless, and they are cropping up in places I felt they shouldn't. It's going to cost a fortune, so maybe these brickwalls will have to wait. 

Pipkim