Our family line is first found in Lasswade, Midlothian in the late 1600s.

The earliest confirmed member of our Smith line is Robert Smith. His great great granddaughter Christian Smith is the mother of Jessie Stoddart who emigrates to Australia with her husband William Hardie in 1879.

My Smith ancestry goes back 10 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links below

• Robert Smith married Marie Drover
  • William Smith 1691 - ? married Isabel Paton
    • Richard Smith 1729 - ? /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/2963144705 married Christian Bennet
      • Robert Smith 1765 - ? married Christian Brown
        • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/2963243016
          
          • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/2963046409
        • Christian Smith 1797 - 1878 and David Bowman Stoddart
          • Jessie Stoddart 1833 - 1918 married William Hardie
            • George Hardie 1871 - 1945 married Joan Kitching
              • Douglas James Hardie 1917 - 2012 married Doreen Bain
                • My father