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On this page:
James Smyth and Margaret Harte
Thomas Smyth and Mary White
Documents
Other Smyths


Family Tree
  • Source for all information on this page is the family "Blue Book" unless otherwise noted
  • Family Tree on ancestry.com which requires a credit card for free access. Living people are hidden for security. Contact me for full access.
  • I have a private version of this page with tons more info on the children of James Lucas Smyth and Margaret Harte. The info is from a fellow in N.Ireland and is for "family only" so let me know if you are interested in seeing it!
  • Partial tree on tribalpages.com
  • My page on the Callans, Eliza Jane Smyth's husband Samuel's family
  • James Lucas Smyth and Margaret Harte

    Child Dates Notes
    Eliza Jane
    Thomas Hamilton b. 10 Dec 1855
    d. 16 Nov 1908
    My great grandfather
    James Lucas
    Margaret d. 26 Mar 1914
    Joseph Connel
    William Hamilton
    Samuel
    Daniel
    Isaac Lennox

    Thomas Hamilton Smyth and Mary White
    married 1888

  • Mary born 22 Jun 1871, died 16 Mar 1957 (Seattle, WA)
  • Second source for this family is 1911 Census of Ireland
  • Child Dates Notes
    Margaret (Newland)
    b. 22 Sep 1889
    d. 14 Jul 1972
    Arrived in Seatle, WA in 1917
    Mary "Minnie" (Campbell)
    b. 29 Mar 1892
    d. 28 Oct 1986
    Arrived in Seattle, WA in 1924
    James
    b. 15 Mar 1894
    d. 3 Oct 1959
    Children:
    Thomas Hamilton d. 1990 -- not married
    Mary Anne (Sills) d. (England) -- no children
    Samuel d. 1983 (Londonderry?) -- no children
    Violet (Sauntson) d. (England) -- no children
    James (Burlington, MA)
    Frederick John d. 2007 (Moville) -- no children
  • Photo of headstone below
  • Thomas Hamilton
    b. 16 Aug 1897
    d. 7 Jan 1979
    Arrived in Boston, MA 1929
    Matilda "Tillie" Ann (Wittett)
    b. 13 Aug 1898
    d. 11 Jan 1918
    Married English soldier in 1916. Died giving birth to first child.
    Eliza Jane (Callan)
    b. 25 Nov 1900
    d. 15 Dec 1977
    Arrived in Somerville, MA in 1921
    My grandmother
    Robert
    b. 20 Jan 1903
    d. 16 Jun 1974
    Arrived in Seattle, WA in 1920
    Gladys Violet (Cooke)
    b. 18 Jul 1905
    d. 23 Oct 1994
    Arrived in Seattle, WA 1925
    Nelson Frederick
    b. 11 May 1907
    d. 12 Sep 1968
    Arrived in Seattle, WA 1926 with Samuel Callan

    Documents & Images

    Source Date Notes
    Griffiths Valuation
    Map
    Valuation 1857
    Map 1835
    Marked in red on the map:

    No. 18: Leased by Richard Smith "House, offices, and land"
    No. 19: Leased by Richard and James Smith "Land" (except 19a and 19b which were leased (sub-leased?) by McDevitt and Collins FROM Richard Smith)
    No. 20: Leased by James Smith "House, offices, and land"
    All leased from Hugh Corbett

    We have James (b. 1824) with brothers William and Thomas. Maybe Richard was a brother of James (b. 1800).
    Minnie Smyth
    Andrew Campbell
    1892-1974 Minnie White Smyth (1892-1960) married
    Andrew Campbell (1894-1974).
    Isaac Ship Entry 1896 entry no. 129
    Name: Isaac Smythe
    Arrival Date: 16 Apr 1896
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1871
    Age: 25
    Gender: Male
    Port of Departure: Moville
    Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Irish
    Ship Name: State of Nebraska
    Port of Arrival: New York, New York
    intended destination: philadelphia
    Eliza Birth Cert 25 Nov 1900 Eliza Jane Smyth, Samuel Callan's wife
    Mary E Campbell
    Young Charles
    Charles Johnson
    1910-1938 Minnie White Smyth married Andrew Campbell and had daughter Mary E Campbell. In 1938 she married Charles E Johnson (b. 1910 d. 1988).
    Mary White, Kids 1911-1912 Eliza Jane Smyth, second from left.
    Land Folio 39
    Page 2
    1913 No. 18: Leased by Richard Smith in 1857. Now No. 39, register to Richard Smith 1913. Changed to Alexander Smith 1937, Walter Hegarty 1948, Thomas Hegarty 1950.
    Land Folio 38
    Page 2
    1913 No. 19: Leased by Richard and James Smith in 1857. Now No. 38, registered to Mary Smyth 1913 (Thomas' wife). Ownership changed to Thomas Smith in 1928. It was sold to Thomas Hegarty in 1946.
    Note: The old home was taken down in the early 1980's, but the farmland remains a field.
    Land Folio 37
    Page 2
    1913 No. 20: Leased by James Smith in 1857. Now No. 37, Daniel Smyth 1913 (Thomas' younger brother). Sold to Thomas Hegarty of Shrove in 1961.
    Matilda Ann PDF
    1918 7th child of Thomas & Mary Smyth
    Nelson Smyth 1926 Nelson (middle) was Eliza's youngest brother (11th child of Thomas & Mary Smyth). Andrew Cambell (left) was Minnie's husband.
    Eliza Smyth b.1900 1926?
    Eliza US Census 10 Apr 1930 No. 12: Samuel Callan and wife Eliza
    Your Irish Roots PDF
    1957 Story of Mary (White) Smyth by Marge McRae
    Photo of Mary Burnside White
    Charles 1963 Minnie White Smyth married Andrew Campbell and had daughter Mary E Campbell. She married Charles E Johnson. They had son Charles.
    Blue Book Page 2 PDF
    1994 Thomas Hamilton Smyth & Margaret White family tree
    Update: Gladys Violed died 23 Oct 1994
    Hegarty Land Folio 1999 Three land folios are now one. It is owned by George C Hegarty of Shrove, Greencastle
    Cherie
    Cherie's Husband
    Cherie's Son
    2002-2007 Minnie White Smyth married Andrew Campbell and had daughter Mary E Campbell. She married Charles E Johnson. Cherie is their granddaughter.
    Land Folio Aerial
    Hegarty Farm Aerial
    2004 Compare this with 1835 Map to see how 3 plots combined to one big one.
    There are no bulding permits for the farm land as of 2009.
    St Finian's Churchyard
    Map
    2008 Where Thomas, two children that died at birth (Mary & Thomas) and James (d. 1959) have a memorial stone. There may be additional children (and ancestors) marked in this churchyard.

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