From Rev William Matheson’s “History of the Families of Lewis – Smith” published under the pseudonym Mac Gille Chaluim in the Stornoway Gazette in the late 1950s. See a further story of Calum Olach here. There was a noted family of Smiths of Valtos, Uig, for whom it has been claimed that they were of [...]
Read more →From the Stornoway Gazette, 1959, pertaining to Rev William Matheson’s article on the origin of the Smiths of Uig: Sir, — In the first of his three most interesting articles on the genealogy of the Smiths, Mac Gille Chaluim writes of Iain Dubh Chraidhig. “This last word must be a place0name but unfortunately we cannot [...]
Read more →From Rev William Matheson (Mac Gille Chaluim), Families of Lewis (1959) in the Stornoway Gazette. Rev Matheson begins by explaining how he reckons the Smiths of Earshader (from whom are descended the Smiths of Strome, Valtos, Laxay and Keose) were Morrisons sometimes known as Mackinnons, before they acquired the surname Smith in English. He continues: If we [...]
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