Tour Scotland travel video of the John Smart gravestone in the Cathedral Graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Smart is an English surname. In origin it was either a medieval nickname surname for a brisk or active person, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th century word " smeart ", meaning quick, or it may be an occupational name for a person who was probably a handyman or similar. It is an example of a sizeable group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames.
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