Records of Hugh Smyth on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hugh Smyth and the Smyth Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smyth 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Smyth family tree.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 14447 people with the Smyth surname in the UK? Smyth is now ranked number 400 for popularity in the UK.

Smyth Genealogy Databases

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Smyth Forums

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ukDid you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Smyth surname in the USA? Smyth is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA.

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Some Famous People called Hugh Smyth

Hugh Lyle Smyth

Hugh Lyle Smyth (15 Nov 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a wealthy merchant and a JP who was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1895.

He was born in Derry to Ross Thompson Smyth and Sarah Lyle. He married Eliza Turner of Rusholme Park on 5 June 1862. They had eleven children. Their family home was Crabwall Hall, in the village of Mollington, Cheshire. He had a large country house, Barrowmore Hall in Great Barrow, Cheshire, designed by the architect, John Douglas (1829–1911) and completed c. 1881. His daughter Una Maud Lyle Smyth was a novelist who wrote under the name Marius Lyle.

Source: Hugh Lyle Smyth, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia