Our family line is first found in the Blything Hundred of Suffolk in the late 1600's recorded as Smyth. There are records of Smyths in the Blything Hundred going back to the late 1400s but we have been unable to trace the line that far back.

The earliest confirmed member of our Smith/Smyth line is William Smyth of Chediston. His great granddaughter Martha Smith marries into the Jessop family, and her grandson John Jessop migrated to Australia in 1838.

The ancestral line going back 11 generations is likely

• William Smyth

• married Frances Spalding - of Chediston
  • John Smyth

• • 1666 - married Dorothy - of Chediston
    • Charles Smith

• • • 1700 - ? married Martha Sharman - of Chediston
      • Martha Smith

• • • • 1728 - 1814 married Robert Jessup  - of Chediston
        • Charles Jessup

• • • • • 1761 - 1843 married Elizabeth Bedingfield - of Cratfield
          • John

• • • • • • Jessop 1795 - 1885 married Lucy Mouser - of Cratfield and Camden
            • John Jessop

• • • • • • • 1834 - 1906 married Sarah Ann Burgess - of Camden
              • John Crofton Jessop

• • • • • • • • 1861 - 1910 married  Hannah Shoobridge
                • Sydney Walter Jessop

• • • • • • • • • 1887 - 1973 married Emily Louise McDermott
                  • Esmond Earl Jessop

• • • • • • • • • • married Mary Agnes Darrough
                    • My mother