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blacksmith Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a smith who worked in iron (‘black metal’), as opposed to tin (‘white metal’). This was never established as a surname in England or Scotland, which suggests that the name may have been adopted in North America as a translation of an occupational name for a blacksmith from some other language (see Smith).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blacksmith Families in the US in 1920
Number of blacksmith families
 9-16
 4-8		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Blanche BLACKSMITH m Richard SLATER baxlib 1
George William BLACKSMITH - b Germany 1852, d IA abt 1930 Trudy 0
BLACKSMITH aka TIMKO, 1910 PA margaret 0
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