GOLDSMITH   FAMILY

 

 

John GOLDSMITH was sentenced to transportation for life when he appeared in a Surrey court in December 1826.  He had been found guilty of burglary in December 1826. He was single and aged about 19 years. He was transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the “Layton”, leaving Portsmouth on 17 June 1827 and arriving in Hobart on 9 October 1827.

 

Mary Ann DONOVAN was tried at the Central Criminal Court in London on 29 May 1828 and was sentenced to 14 years transportation for larceny.  Her convict record states that her proper name was MAHER and her father was Jeremiah Maher, a gardener.  Mary Ann had been born in County Kerry, Ireland.  She left England in September 1828 on the “Harmony”, arriving in Van Diemen’s Land on 14 January 1829.  Mary Ann’s convict record is contained in the book, “Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls” by Phillip Tardif.

 

John Goldsmith and Mary Ann Donovan were married at New Norfolk on 14 November 1836.  Children born to them were:

 

   Joannes GOLDSMITH (1834-)

 

   Elizabeth GOLDSMITH  (1838 - )

 

   Mary Ann GOLDSMITH (1840-1840)

 

   John GOLDSMITH (1841-1915)

Married Ellen/Helen Barwick at Oatlands 10 October 1860.

 

   Eliza GOLDSMITH born 1 January 1843.  Died 26 May 1882.

 

   Charles William GOLDSMITH (1848- )

 

   Maria GOLDSMITH (1849- )

 

   Mary Ann GOLDSMITH (1851-1851)

 

   Joseph GOLDSMITH (1852-1852)

 

Mary Ann DONOVAN/GOLDSMITH died in Hobart in October 1857.

 

John GOLDSMITH’s second wife was Lavinia Ann CHERRY (nee HILL) whom he married  in Hobart in December 1873.

They had one son:

 

   Robert George Henry GOLDSMITH, born 10 April 1874. 

          Missing, presumed dead, 19 July 1916 – France – World War 1

 

John GOLDSMITH died on 8 November 1895.

 

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