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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goldsmith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:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goldsmith families
 395 - 787  132 - 394 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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 Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Goldsmith
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Goldsmith Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Goldsmith census records
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Goldsmith Civil War Service Records
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