Goldsmith Family History
Goldsmith Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a worker in gold, a compound of Old
English gold ‘gold’ + smið ‘smith’. In North America
it is very often an English translation of German or Jewish
Goldschmidt.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goldsmith
Name Distribution of Goldsmith Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goldsmith families
 605 - 1,208  202 - 604 |
 1 - 201  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goldsmith families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goldsmith census records
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Goldsmith Family Origin
Goldsmith Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Goldsmith Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Goldsmith families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Goldsmith Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Goldsmith census records
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Military Service by Goldsmith
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