22-829: For the island, see Faure Island . For the hamlet, see Faure, South Africa . Not to be confused with Fauré (surname) . Faure ( pronounced [ˈfawɾe] ) is an Occitan family name meaning blacksmith , from Latin faber . It is pronounced [fɔʁ] in French (unlike Fauré which is pronounced [foʁe] ). People [ edit ] Politicians [ edit ] Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician Edgar Faure (1908–1988), French politician Félix Faure (1841–1899), French politician and President of France from 1895 until his death Fernand Faure (1853–1929), French economist and politician Jacques Faure (ambassador) , French co-chair of
44-428: A sickle - or scythe -smith. Wildsmith in turn is a corruption of wheelsmith The patronymic practice of attaching son to the end of a name to indicate that the bearer is the child of the original holder has also led to the surnames Smithson and Smisson. Historically, "Smitty" has been a common nickname given to someone with the surname, Smith; in some instances, this usage has passed into "Smitty" being used as
66-628: A y in Smyth or Smythe is also often considered an affectation but may have originally occurred because of the difficulty of reading blackletter text, where Smith might look like Snuth or Simth . However, Charles Bardsley wrote in 1901, "The y in Smyth is the almost invariable spelling in early rolls, so that it cannot exactly be styled a modern affectation." Some variants (such as Smijth ) were adopted by individuals for personal reasons, while others may have arisen independently or as offshoots from
88-526: Is 26m above sea level. It has some limestone and red sand cliff shores, like Peron Peninsula. The vegetation is predominantly low shrubs of Acacia ramulosa . There are also mallee shrublands, spinifex grasslands, samphire / Atriplex shrublands, and coastal mangroves . The climate is semi-arid to arid, with hot dry summers and mild winters. Rainfall is erratic, falling mainly in winter, with an annual average of 222 mm. Cyclones may sometimes bring rainfall in summer and autumn. Faure Island
110-784: Is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom , the United States , Australia , Canada , and New Zealand , and the fifth most common surname in the Republic of Ireland . In the United States, the surname Smith is particularly prevalent among those of English, Scottish, and Irish descent, but is also a common surname among African-Americans , which can be attributed either to African slaves having been given
132-478: Is an important breeding area for many seabirds , as well as being important for migratory waders using the East Asian - Australasian Flyway . With the neighbouring much smaller (5 ha) Pelican Island and their associated mudflats, it has been identified as a 5821 ha Important Bird Area (IBA). The Faure and Pelican Islands (Shark Bay) IBA supports breeding colonies of fairy terns and over 1% of
154-2802: The French military mission to Japan (1918–1919) Keith Faure , Australian career criminal Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper Sébastien Faure (footballer) , French footballer See also [ edit ] Fauré (surname) Faur v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith Celtic Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan [REDACTED] Germanic Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd Romance Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre Semitic Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad Slavic Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik Kováčik Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovalik Kovalik Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík Kowal Kowalik Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar Other Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith' Funk Funke Vonck Vonk [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
176-1282: The OSCE Minsk Group Louis-Joseph Faure (1760-1837) French jurist and politician Olivier Faure (born 1968), French politician Martine Faure (born 1948), French politician Maurice Faure (1922–2014), French Resistance leader and politician, and the last surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome Sébastien Faure (1858–1942), French anarchist Faure Gnassingbé , president of Togo Writers, artists, and musicians [ edit ] Élie Faure (1873–1937), French art historian and essayist Gabriel Faure (1877–1962), French poet, novelist and essayist Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), French composer, organist, pianist and teacher Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), French baritone and composer Lucie Faure (1908–1977), French writer Renée Faure (1918–2005), French actress Others [ edit ] Abraham Faure (1795–1875), South African clergyman Camille Alphonse Faure , French chemical engineer Gunter Faure , American geochemist Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of
198-613: The Smith root. Names such as Smither and Smithers may in some cases be variants of Smith but in others independent surnames based on a meaning of light and active attributed to smyther . Additional derivatives include Smithman, Smithson and Smithfield (see below). Athersmith may derive from at the Smith . Other variations focus on specialisms within the profession; for example Blacksmith , from those who worked predominantly with iron, Whitesmith , from those who worked with tin (and
220-831: The boodie , Shark Bay mouse , banded hare-wallaby and western barred bandicoot . An attempt to reintroduce the greater stick-nest rat failed. The island is located within the Shark Bay Marine Park and is adjacent to both the Wooramel Seagrass Bank and the Faure Sill sandbank that is a major component in the creating of the conditions within the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. 25°52′S 113°53′E / 25.867°S 113.883°E / -25.867; 113.883 Smith (surname) Smith
242-424: The surname Faure . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faure&oldid=1246033064 " Categories : Occupational surnames Surnames Occitan-language surnames Hidden categories: Pages using
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#1732780893315264-594: The German Schmidt was often Anglicized to Smith not only during the world wars , but also commonly in times of peace, and the Polish equivalent Kowalski was Anglicized to Smith as well. Variations of the surname Smith also remain very common. These include different spellings of the English name, and versions in other languages. There is some disagreement about the origins of the numerous variations of
286-940: The Peron Peninsula, in Shark Bay , Western Australia . It lies in line with the Monkey Mia resort to the west, and the Wooramel River on the eastern shore of Shark Bay. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and Shark Bay World Heritage Site and, as the Faure Island Sanctuary, is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC). The island was given its European name by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1801, in honour of
308-568: The Phonos extension Pages with Occitan IPA Pages including recorded pronunciations Articles containing Latin-language text Pages with French IPA Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Faure Island Faure Island is a 58 km island pastoral lease and nature reserve , east of the Francois Peron National Park on
330-518: The beginning of the 20th century, when many new immigrants were entering the U.S., civil servants at Ellis Island responsible for cataloging the entry of such persons sometimes arbitrarily assigned new surnames if the immigrants' original surname was particularly lengthy, or difficult for the processor to spell or pronounce. While such claims may be exaggerated, many immigrants did choose to begin their American lives with more "American" names, particularly with Anglicised versions of their birth names;
352-656: The geographer, Pierre Faure , aboard his ship Le Naturaliste . Pastoral leases over the island were granted to Charles Broadhurst in 1873, and to WD Moore & Coy in 1883. For most of the 20th century, from 1905, the Hoult family of Denham ran sheep and goats on the island. In 1999 the Hoults sold the lease to the AWC, which removed more than 3400 sheep. The landscape consists mostly of red and white sandy plains and dunes, with claypans in low-lying areas. The highest point
374-420: The more obvious Tinsmith ), Brownsmith and Redsmith, from those who worked with copper ( Coppersmith and Greensmith; copper is green when oxidised), Silversmith and Goldsmith – and those based on the goods produced, such as Hammersmith, Bladesmith , Naismith ( nail -smith), Arrowsmith which in turn was shortened to Arsmith, or Shoesmith (referring to horseshoes ). Sixsmith is a variant spelling of
396-463: The name Smith. The addition of an e at the end of the name is sometimes considered an affectation, but may have arisen either as an attempt to spell smithy or as the Middle English adjectival form of smith , which would have been used in surnames based on location rather than occupation (in other words, for someone living near or at the smithy). Likewise, the replacement of the i with
418-587: The statement: "Common to every village in England, north, south, east, and west"; and sufficiently common on the (European) continent (in various forms) to be "common in most countries of Europe". The name refers to a smith , originally deriving from smið or smiþ , the Old English term meaning one who works in metal , related to the word smitan , the Old English form of smite , which also meant strike (as in early 17th century Biblical English:
440-477: The surname of their masters, or to being an occupational name, as some southern African-Americans took this surname to reflect their or their father's trade. 2,442,977 Americans shared the surname Smith at the time of the 2010 census , and more than 500,000 people shared it in the United Kingdom as of 2006. At the turn of the 20th century, the surname was sufficiently prevalent in England to have prompted
462-563: The verb "to smite" = to hit). The Old English word smiþ comes from the Proto-Germanic word smiþaz . Smithy comes from the Old English word smiðē from the Proto-Germanic smiðjon . The use of Smith as an occupational surname dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, when inherited surnames were still unknown: Ecceard Smith of County Durham , North East England , was recorded in 975. A popular misconception holds that at
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#1732780893315484-495: The world populations of red-necked stint and pied oystercatcher . Together with the nearby Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island IBA, it supports more than 1% of the world population of pied cormorants . The original native mammal fauna of Faure Island did not survive the introduction of livestock and the presence of feral cats . However, sub-fossil evidence of the former presence of native mammals has brought reintroduction of
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