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SMEE Family History

This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century "Smethe" meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of locational origin from Smeeth in Kent, recorded as "Smitha" in the "Index to the Charters and Rolls" in the British Museum 1018, from the same derivation. One, Laurence de Smethe, is noted in the 1275 Hundred Rolls of Kent. The surname may also have originated as a nickname from the same word, "smethe", used in a transferred sense for someone of an amiable disposition.