Reverend Charles G Goldsmith

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Reverend Charles G Goldsmith

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ballyoughter, Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland
Death: 1747 (56-57)
Kilkenny West, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland
Immediate Family:

Son of Robert Goldsmith and Catherine Crofton
Husband of Anne Goldsmith
Father of Margaret Goldsmith; Catherine Goldsmith; Reverend Henry Goldsmith; Jane Johnston; Oliver Goldsmith and 3 others
Brother of John Goldsmith; Jane Contarine and Catherine Mills

Occupation: Clergyman
Managed by: Private User
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About Reverend Charles G Goldsmith

Born 1690 at Ballyoughter - J. A.Connellan, 'Goldsmith: Roscommon's illustrious son' (Longford: Goldsmith Society, 1935).

Entered Trinity College Dublin 16 June 1707. Curate of Forgney and from 1730 Rector of Kilkenny West - 'The early haunts of Oliver Goldsmith' by J. J. Kelly.

The records of Trinity College say he was born near Elphin and was 17 when entering on 16 June 1707.

Rev. Charles Goldsmith of Ballyoughter [which seems a more likely birthplace than Kilkenny West]: born 1690; M.A.; married Anne Jones, 1718; priest 17 Sept. 1719; Curate of Forgney, Pallas, Co. Longford; Rector of Kilkenny West, 1730; died 1747 - Irwin A (Pedigree of Sir Alfred M. B. Irwin C.S.I. and his wife Alice Kathleen née French) (National Library of Ireland GO MS 436).

The Rev. Charles Goldsmith, father of the renowned eighteenth century poet and playwright Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774), was curate at Kilkenny West between 1730 and his death in 1747. His remains are interred in the graveyard. According to popular legend Oliver Goldsmith's career as a poet is said to have started in Kilkenny West church while his father was preaching. . Source buildings of Ireland.ie

Date of marriage from Prior I p.14.

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Reverend Charles G Goldsmith's Timeline

1690
1690
Ballyoughter, Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland
1707
June 16, 1707
- 1711
Age 17
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
1719
August 22, 1719
Ireland
1721
January 13, 1721
Pallas, Longford, Ireland
1722
February 9, 1722
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
February 9, 1722
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
1728
November 10, 1728
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
1730
1730
Age 40
Church of Ireland, Westmeath, Ireland
1736
July 7, 1736
Kilkenny West, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland