JamesSmith

"Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset"

156. Smith of Canonslbigh, Black Torrington and
St. Acjdries. — I wish to discover the origin of a family of
ancestors, extinct in the male line in 1748 — Smith or Smyth of
Black Torrington, Canonsleigh, Devon, and St. Audries, Somerset.
Burke, in his book on Heraldry, the name of which I forget,
but edition of 1884, gives them the same arms — cinquefoils and
leopards' faces— as the family of Sir Greville Smyth, Bart. A
James Smith of this family was M.P. for Taunton in 17 14 and
1724 ; he appears to have been a London goldsmith, and married
a daughter of one Henry Rowland, also a banker in Lombard
street. His son, another James Smith, purchased St. Audries,
and married Grace, daughter of Edward Dyke of Tetton. He
left four daughters only, and the eldest, Margaret, my great grand-
mother, married in 1760, Sir Charles Bingham, ist Earl of Lucan.
I should like also to find the origin of the families of Rowland
and Dyke both of which appear to have belonged to Somerset.
A Rowland married a Bickford of Dunsland. D. Browne.