Smith Project Member ID: ID:118-- (to be confirmed)

Town/s of Interest: West Riding of Yorkshire:
Ripon, Givendale Grange,
Great Givendale, Little Givendale
Newby Hall, Westwick, Nunwick,
Sharow, Copt Hewick.
Boroughbridge (Aldborough Parish)
[also North Riding - Parish of
Kirby on the Moor (Kirby Hill)
and Hutton Conyers]

Researcher: (to be confirmed)
Location: Goodwood, Adelaide, S.Australia
Smith Chat Forums Username: Givendale Grange
Online Office pigeon-hole: 118--

Summary of Interests/Message
Some of my forebears came to South
Australia from Givendale Grange in the
Parish of Ripon in the West Riding of
Yorkshire. They arrived here in
August 1839. Others came in 1856.

Several of our families lived at either
Givendale Grange, Great Givendale or
Little Givendale on the Newby Hall
estate. They were tenant farmers and
it appears that various generations
farmed there for over 100 years.

Some others of our family farmed in the
North Riding at Humberton-cum-Milby
in the Parish of Kirby on the Moor
(Kirby Hill). The earliest records I have
show Smiths in the area from c.1700.
Various family members lived at times
in a number of places including those
already mentioned and .........
Westwick, Nunwick, Sharow,
Boroughbridge, Knaresborough,
Hutton Moor, Skelton, Blois Hall,
Hutton Conyers, Ripon, Copt Hewick
and Kirby Hill.

Christian names in the family include
Jacob, Richard, Robert, Thomas,
James, Henry and Joseph for the
males and for the ladies, Ruth, Mary,
Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Charlotte and
Eleanor.

In many cases, the first son was
Jacob and the first daughter was Mary.
An interesting point, a number of
Jacobs married a Mary.

This information gives a bit of a lead
for anyone who thinks we may be
related. I would some members write
to me and say that we are.
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