Thus they would write (or show on a pedigree chart) a child as, e.g., the son of John Smith and Mary Brown.

Smith was born in 1952, the son of John and Patricia Smith.

Smith was born in Sawley, the son of John Smith a farmer and his wife Ruth.

He was born in Port Hope around 1813, the son of John David Smith.

Smith was born as the second son of John And Isabel Smith.

He was the son of John Smith and Mary Ransom.

He was the son of John Smith who preceded him as MP for Midhurst.

He was the son of John David Smith, who served in the assembly for Upper Canada.

He was born the son of John Smith, a Lambeth merchant and became a timber merchant himself.

He was born in Port Hope, Upper Canada in 1823, the son of John David Smith.