What Address?
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Cross posted.Idmiston
It could well be.
All I have to do now is discover what happened to Mrs Goldmith's husband. Her first name was Mary (née Johnston) and she married Arthur Goldsmith in Brighton in 1907.
It is Arthur to whom I am connected. Strange upbringing: in 1891 he was at home with his parents in Horsham but by 1901 was in Stepney Boys Home as an Apprentice Tinsmith. The 1911 census has him, Mary and the children living in Gillingham, Dorset where he is working as a Tinsmith.
Why did he end up in the Boys Home?
Where did he disappear to after 1911?
When and where did he die?
Why New Zealand?
Oh what a wonderful hobby this is!
All I have to do now is discover what happened to Mrs Goldmith's husband. Her first name was Mary (née Johnston) and she married Arthur Goldsmith in Brighton in 1907.
It is Arthur to whom I am connected. Strange upbringing: in 1891 he was at home with his parents in Horsham but by 1901 was in Stepney Boys Home as an Apprentice Tinsmith. The 1911 census has him, Mary and the children living in Gillingham, Dorset where he is working as a Tinsmith.
Why did he end up in the Boys Home?
Where did he disappear to after 1911?
When and where did he die?
Why New Zealand?
Oh what a wonderful hobby this is!
Archie's Mum
Always digging up clues
Anthrax......
Just found a Mr A Goldsmith who emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand on 23rd November 1911 who was a Tinsmith. Now, you don't get many chaps named A Goldsmith who was also a tin miner going off to the same country where his wife and children were off to 10 years later... 
If that is him, I wonder why the rest of them waited so long...
If that is him, I wonder why the rest of them waited so long...
Archie's Mum
Always digging up clues
I wonder if he was the Arthur Goldsmith who died in NZ in 1959
I've known one or two small villages where in times past there would have been only one street or cluster of houses, and the houses in that part simply had a number followed by the name of the village, without any reference to a street name.Ah! Could it be Idmiston? If so, how can an address of 11 Idmiston be correct? No street name....
Strange, because his mother and his 7 brother's and sisters are living at 75, New England Street, Brighton, Sussex in 1901. Ann says she is married but her husband isn't with her. It says Ann is daughter to the head of the house (don't know how though.) Maybe with so many people in the house Arthur went into the Boys home to learn his trade. It does say he is an apprentice.
Handy to know. Thank you.
That is what I suspect as well. The age is about right.
In 1901, Ann's husband Edward is in the West Sussex County Asylum in Chichester and recorded as a lunatic. He died there in 1908.
The 1901 census looks like the word 'Lodger' has been overwritten with 'Daur'. As Ann was having children after Edward was admitted to the Asylum (1897), maybe Reuben wanted to show a closer relationship other than just her being a lodger and, as there was over 20 years difference in ages, wanted it to seem more respectable....
MollyMay
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The Boy's Home Stepney, was part of the Barnardo's organisation
I wonder if Ann signed Arthur over to them, as she was struggling, with her husband in an institution.
His connection with Barnardos might explain why he went to New Zealand.
Poor little Violet born and died between censuses.
Sandiep
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I would think thats right my grandfather and his brother were sent to industrial school as great gran was pennyless but she still kept in touch and lived with them in later life.
As did her brother Frederick. (1904 - 1908)
