Records of Fred Smithies on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Fred Smithies in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Fred Smithies and the Smithies Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smithies Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Smithies family tree.

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Some Famous People called Fred Smithies

Fred Smithies

Frederick Albert Smithies (12 May 1929 – 24 September 2018) was a British trade unionist.

Born in Lancashire, Smithies was educated at St Mary's College, Blackburn and St Mary's College, Twickenham, qualifying as a teacher. He taught in Accrington until 1960, then moved to Northampton, where he taught at St Mary's High School. He also joined the National Association of Schoolmasters and was elected to its National Executive in 1966, remaining on the body after a merger formed the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT).

In 1976, Smithies was elected as vice-president of NASUWT, then, later in the year, as the union's assistant general secretary. In 1981, he was promoted to deputy general secretary, and he was elected as general secretary in 1982, taking up the post early in 1983. While in post, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and the executive of the International Federation of Free Teachers' Unions. He retired from the NASUWT in 1990, although he remained honorary treasurer of the international federation until 1993.

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Other names that sound a bit like Smithies

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