Robert Goldsmith

In relation to Oliver Goldsmith, "not only his father and mother, but his ancestry (on both sides), for several generations, were of Roscommon origin" - Michael F. Cox, 'The country and kindred of Oliver Goldsmith' in Journal of the National Literary Society of Ireland, vol. I part I (1900).

Presumably the Robert Goldsmith of Ballyoughter whose will was proved in 1711 - 'Index of will abstracts in the Genealogical Office, Dublin' in Analecta Hibernica, no. 17 (1949).

'The life of Oliver Goldsmith' by James Prior says that Robert had 13 children but names only 3.