The Smeals bring a Scottish heritage of the Sutton family. As farm workers and householders they came to Australia as bounty immigrants in 1844 to settle on the estate of the famous Henry Osborne at Marshall Mount near Dapto in NSW.  Strange that the Suttons should return to that area to live in the 1970s.

Family legend draws a line from Rob Roy McGregor to the Weirs and Smeals of Scotland.  We have yet to prove the lineage - but the pride in a Scots heritage is strong.