Smith Family Ancestors—A Major Discovery!

For some time now I have faced the proverbial “brick wall” on advancing my research on my Smith ancestors. Several weeks ago I received a note from a genealogy researcher, Josie Walsh in Kildwick, Yorkshire, and our ancestral home. She had come across Smith family data on my Ancestry.com web site, and offered to check for additional information.

The information she has sent me including gravestone photos taken at Kildwick Church is simply amazing! I now have data going back to two sets of my 5X great-grandparents, Christopher Smith and Hannah Benson, as well as Thomas Cockshott and Hannah Struth. A brief summary of my Smith line starting with great-grandfather, Lot Smith is shown below. All of the new information has been recorded on The McAdoo Clan web site, http://jhmc1.tribalpages.com. Contact me if you don’t remember the password.

Lot Smith (1845-1921) great-grandparents
Elizabeth Grange (1852-1937)

Abraham Smith (1813-1898) 2X great-grandparents
Mary Ann Jackson (1810-1863

John Smith (1787-1841) 3X great-grandparents
Alice Padget (1782-1863)

Andrew Smith (1761-1838) 4X great-grandparents
Elizabeth Peel (1753-1839)

Christopher Smith (1717-1800) 5X great-grandparents
Hannah Benson (1730-1779)

Again, thanks to Josie Walsh, Craven Indexes for contributing so much information to our family tree. Her web site is http://www.cravenindexes.co.uk