Hi deb!
Just a note to let you know that we now have the wills ordered from Devon. They are very informative. We now know that both William and Milleycent lived to a ripe old age, and were obviously *not* masacred by natives in Africa.
I believe it is much more likely that the impresionable young Martha (Richard's wife, who named her daughter Goldsmid) read about the exploits of missionaries in Africa and perhaps a similiar story, and named her child after the brave rescuer. Just don't think it *actually* happened to them.
We are now looking for references to a Goldsmid around the time of the 1830s that Martha could have taken the name from.
