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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Do You Have a Mary Smith?

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!   Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)  How many persons named Mary Smith do you have in your genealogy management program or online family tree?  How many persons named Mary Smith are ancestors? 2)  Pick out one of those persons named Mary Smith and do some online research for them in Ancestry, FamilySearch, or another set of record collections.  Your goal is to add something to your database. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. I have 7230 people in my RootsMagic database and only two Mary Smiths, both of whom married a Smith. Mary Jane Davey was born 23 May 1839 in Clifton, Bristol, England to Thomas Davey and Mary Nicholas. [1] She was their sixth child of fifteen and one of seven who lived to adulthood. After the family immigrated to the Uni...