Goldsmith Family Ramsgate Kent

[Wheatman]

Dani,

What do you know and who is your starting point?

You will note that there a number of us with varying degrees of knowledge but between us a fairly comprehensive knowledge.

All new connections warmly received

Roger
 

[WeavaBird]

Hi,

Basically I know up to Augustine Smithers (1710-1785) who married Mary Knot

My lineage is as follows 

• me
• Andrew Smithers
• Noel Thomas Smithers
• William Cassel Smithers
• William Smithers 
• Alfred Thomas Smithers (1843-1933) Who marrried Sarah A Goldsmith

From there i continue to Augustine Smithers but i also go on to find relatives of Sarah A Goldsmith. I have gone so far as her g grandfather Edward Goldsmith (1762-1838).
I am an ancestor through his son Jarman Goldsmith, who i know very little information about. Only that he was in prison for 8 months for theft. He also married Francis Betts Anderton, who i further dont know anything about.

Would you be able to shed some light on these people, and also give me information on who Augustines parents could be?

Any help will be very much appreciated

Dani

[Wheatman]

Dani,

If you have the family back to those you mention I don't think I can help much at all as I will only be duplicating what you already appear to have.

I knew nothing about the Smithers marriage so that your family are new to me.

What info do you have on Alfred Thomas Smithers, I could perhaps start from him and work back

If you want what I have I can convert into a pdf and send it but it will be a large file and there are many gaps as the Goldsmiths are not my main interest in Kent

Regards

Roger

[John Meara]

Hello. My wife is a Great Granddaughter of Elizabeth Pullen Goldsmith and Peter Bedford Keough. They never married as far as I can tell. I have researched them extensively and have the main tree on Ancestry.  Are you on Ancestry?  Also have 3 DNA kits on Ancestry, MyHeritage, Gedmatch and FTdna.

Peter KEHOE was tried in Wicklow town on 7 Jul 1846 by Baron Pennefather for the crime of Rape. Convicted and sentenced to 10 years. He was described as single, age 17, Roman Catholic, could read and write and a Shoemaker. He spent 3 months in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison, then via Smithfield Male Convict Depot before boarding the convict ship “Tory”. His conduct in gaol reported as very good. The Tory departed Kingstown Harbour 11 Nov 1846, arrived Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) 4 months later on 18 Mar 1847. He was then on a 2-year Probation Period at Maria Island, Tasmania before being granted his Ticket of Leave in May 1850. He was approved to marry Teresa Burrows (aka Preston), a female convict from Dublin. They married on 14 Jul 1851 in Hobart, Tasmania, but no children. They separated in about 1853 or 1854, when she was granted a Certificate of Freedom and appears to have fallen pregnant to another man, Thomas Walker.

Peter made his way north across Bass Straight to the Victorian goldfields, where he used the name Peter Bedford KEOUGH for the remainder of his life. By 1856 he had partnered with Elizabeth Pullen Goldsmith (my wife Catherine's Great Grandmother). They settled near Bendigo on the goldfields and had 7 children, 5 survived to marry; one being Caroline Esther (Grandmother) and produce grandchildren: one being my wife’s mother, Minnie Crilly. Peter Keough died in Bendigo in 1903 at the age of 74.

Elizabeth's sister Maria similarly never married Jabez James Janes. In 1870 he was charged on warrant with deserting his 5 illegitimate children by Maria. We have many many DNA matches to the Goldsmith descendants, but few that can be mapped for the Kehoe side.  I have all the brith and death certificates. 

I was alerted to this Roots Chat on a Facebook Wicklow Genealogy group post where I was inquiring about Peter. 
Cheers