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 & Frances Spalding - of Chediston
  • John Smyth & Dorothy - of Chediston
    • Charles Smith & Martha Sharman - of Chediston
      • Martha Smith & Robert Jessup  - of Chediston
        • Charles Jessup & Elizabeth Bedingfield - of Cratfield
          • John Jessop & Lucy Mouser - of Cratfield and Camden
            • John Jessop & Sarah Ann Burgess - of Camden
              • John Crofton Jessop & Hannah Shoobridge
                • Sydney Walter Jessop & Emily Louise McDermott
                  • Esmond Earl Jessop & Mary Agnes Darrough
                    • My mother