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Robert Goldsmith

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Birthplace: Ballyoughter, Roscommon, Ireland
Death: circa 1711 (52-61)
Co Roscommon, Ireland
Immediate Family:

Son of Reverend John Goldsmith and Jane Goldsmith
Husband of Catherine Crofton
Father of John Goldsmith; Jane Contarine; Reverend Charles G Goldsmith and Catherine Mills
Brother of Jane Muns and John Goldsmith

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About 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.

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Robert Goldsmith's Timeline

1654
1654
Ballyoughter, Roscommon, Ireland
1679
1679
Ballioughter, Shankill, County Roscommon, Ireland
1682
1682
1690
1690
Ballyoughter, Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland
1711
1711
Age 57
Co Roscommon, Ireland
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