Smith (Kingussie)

For family tree see Smith (Kingussie, Demerara & Canada) on Ancestry (subsciption required)

John Smith (1778–1864), a shoemaker, and Anne Gordon had at least four sons and four daughters. Three of their sons – Alexander (b.1807), Duncan (1808–48) and Donald (b.1812) – went to Demerara. Alexander arrived c.1824 to join his aunt and uncle – their father's brother Donald/Daniel. Duncan and Donald followed in 1828.

The youngest son, William (1823–63), became a draper in Kingussie, working with his sisters Mary Ann (1819–86) and Ann (1820–1911), who were milliners and dressmakers. An older sister Elizabeth (1814–99) seems to have kept house for them. They were in Kingussie in 1851. living with their father John – but by 1861 the family had moved to Guelph, Ontario (Canada), probably to join relations there. 

The archive of Wellington County holds a collection of thirty-two family letters, most written from Demerara between 1824 and 1851: see this link.