Texas Smyrls should check
the TX
Unclaimed Money Fund
My computer died, would
researchers please contact me so I can rebuild my address book.
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No family history is ever completed. This
web was started as a way for family members to share information. In
the fall on this year I was sent the pages from the E. L. Smyrl family
Bible and some Smyrl photos I had never seen. I will love and
cherish them.
William R. Smyrl of Houston lovingly prepared a Smyrl family history.
A copy of the work can be obtained from him. Please contact me at link
provided below for his e-mail address. I refuse to give spammers
anyone's e-mail address.
I encourage any kinsmen and Smyrl researchers to contact me so I can
pick your brain regarding the family.
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The origin of the name of Smyrl is in question but
one possibility is that it is an old Irish or Norse word for hawk or falcon.
There are three references in regard to this:
1.
Old Norse Forms of Early Irish Names: Lind doesn't have Smyrill; It's actually a word meaning 'merlin (hawk)', but de Vries says that it
appears as a personal name.
2. Viking Raiders from the North - Time-Life Books:
Bishop Jon Smyrill served as Bishop to St. Nicholas Cathedral, Gardar,
Greenland, from 1188 - 1209. Excavation of the north chapel
unearthed his skelleton, an episcopal ring and ancient crosier. One
source referr to the Bishop as sparrowhalk. 3.
My cousin, while working in the North Sea, was told about an island called
Smyrl and was told that Smyrl was an old Norse word for falcon.
Shannon Smyrl
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