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John Goldsmith

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Birthplace: Kilkenny West, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland
Death: circa 1752 (7-16)
Immediate Family:

Son of Reverend Charles G Goldsmith and Anne Goldsmith
Brother of Margaret Goldsmith; Catherine Goldsmith; Reverend Henry Goldsmith; Jane Johnston; Oliver Goldsmith and 2 others

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About John Goldsmith

Date and place of birth from 'The early haunts of Oliver Goldsmith' by J. J. Kelly, who also says that Charles and Anne's youngest child died young. 'The life of Oliver Goldsmith' by James Prior says that John was dead by 1770.

Katherine C. Balderston in 'The history and sources of Percy's memoir of Goldsmith' (Cambridge: U.P., 1926) says that John died about the age of 12.

In a letter of 1753, Oliver Goldsmith refers to "my poor Jack Goldsmith" - Michael F. Cox, 'The country and kindred of Oliver Goldsmith' in Journal of the National Literary Society of Ireland, vol. I part I (1900), p. 106.

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John Goldsmith's Timeline

1740
1740
Kilkenny West, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland
1752
1752
Age 12