>Hi Graham, Thanks for your web site it's great to find pages that
>are clear and well thought out without too many gimmicks.
>My full name is David Edward Smout, for some reason BT keeps
>putting me ex-directory so I probably don't show up in any of
>your searches but I have registered with yahoo. I'm married to
>Helen Smout and we have one daughter called Mollie Rowan Blair
>Smout, we live in Perth in Scotland.
>My parents are listed in the whitepages, Alan Smout and Angie
>Smout, Garrard Gardens. He was an apprentice printer with ICI
>where his father Edward was a senior carpenter.
>I have found entries on the mormon site for many Smouts from East
>Lothian and Edinburgh and around Inverness dating back to the
>16th Century, my wife suggested the clearances may have forced
>them away.
>I also can confirm the use of " a wee smouty man " as a term of
>abuse in Scotland.
>I hope to have my own site set up soon. Email me at
>pyrogen@u.genie.co.uk.
>Hope this has been of interest.
>David Smout

Received your message David

Thanks for looking up the site. Do you notice any connections? One of my
long distance relatives, one Sir Arthur Smout, was at one time chairman of
ICI. he would have been more nearly related to professor T C (Christopher)
Smout, prof of Scottish social History, Uni. of Edinburgh.  Have you come
across him at all?

Graham

more details later

>hi Graham,
>
>I think it's strange that my father has never mentioned that the head of
>the company where both he and his father worked was a smout. I do know
>that his father was in a senior position and that my father was a bit of
>a rogue, his boss was always informing his dad of any mischief. I
>haven't met Prof Smout although I thought he was at St Andrews Uni, he
>could have moved though. I used the link in your page to download a copy
>of Genius Family Tree and have created my own, it is a little incomplete
>even for close members of the family, but I'll let you know when I
>upload the pages. Got to go know as the show is about to start.
>
>David Smout
>
>Ps On the American side of my family is a link to the Sundance Kid by
>marrige, my Aunt has written a book called "Sundance my Uncle" if you
>ever see it it quite good, she has researched that side of the family
>quite a bit.
>
>

(Interesting thought; GPS)