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Goldsmith

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Gertrude's family have been researching and looking for her descendants since the 1970's !

From around 1914 Gertrude Mary Goldsmith moved around the south of England eventually settling in Torquay Devon (c1919) with her husband Harry Bird and his partner Dorothy Mazasitisz and their joint children. She died aged 67 in 1953

Businesses they ran were the Adyar Hotel Castle Circus
and Esdaile Guest House Ashill Road

Please send in any memories you may have of these establishments

 
1911 CENSUS

Charles Leonard 64 Horsekeeper Cement Works
Clara Ann Selina 53
William Charles 40 Labourer Vestry
Bertha Violet 17 Single
Mary Ann 33 Single Housework
Harry Robinson 17 BOARDER Shop Assist (Boot) Civil Service Stores

Occupying 6 rooms 69 Ponsonby Place Westminster

The ages of the family do not appear to be quite correct on the handwritten census form **

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Lawrence 29 General Carman - born Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
Ellen 28 - married 6 years
Charles 5
Bertha 1

Occupying 2 rooms 58 Pulford St Westminster

( this dispels any myth that Lawrence thought he was the son of Elizabeth Quick who died giving birth to him in Westminster)

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Charles Leonard 26 Dairyman
Mary Elizabeth Hughes 24 Dairyman Assistant
Sophia Jane Rees 23 Visitor from Cardiganshire Wales

67 Aspenlea Road Fulham

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Tom Edwin Goldsmith 23 Harness Maker
George Washington 42 Harness Maker & family

66 Station Road Addlestone Chertsey Surrey

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Harry Bird 28 Stationer Shopkeeper
Gertrude Wife 24 Assisting in shop
Thora baby 1
Living in 3 rooms, 215 Vauxhall Bridge Road Westminster

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** One knows that the census form should have been completed and signed by the householder and one would assume that the form was done by Charles Lennard. But, on his son’s birth certificate in 1884, under ‘signature, description and residence of informant’ appears X The Mark of Charles Goldsmith, Father, 17 Millbank Street, Westminster.

It would appear that my grandfather, Charles Lennard, may possibly have been illiterate and that someone else may have completed the form on his behalf who did not know the correct age of either Charles Lennard or William Charles and who had some reason for concealing the (under-age) marriage on 17 November (not October) 1910 of Henry and Bertha Violet.
Charles George

Thank you for this Census page and for all your work; we do appreciate your efforts!!
Pam and Jim - Australia




Clara Ann Selina and Grandchildren Clara and Henry

Clara Ann Selina and Grandchildren Clara and  Henry
Photo donated by Margaret - Tom Goldsmith's daughter

HP The Goldsmiths were living
where the trees
are now, in Millbank Street

Photo Walter Carrera
Our Goldsmith family originated in Ixworth and Whepstead Suffolk and later moved to Lawshall & Rede before Charles Leonard and his brother moved down to London to seek his fortune...

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First, we should thank you for coming to us in the first place. You have re-awakened our interest in the Family History. So, we were able to enjoy the Bertha Website which we think is marvellous. You have done an enormous amount of work!!! Pam & Jim Horton

I am grateful to you for your generosity in sharing the results of your researches
with the family .....Charles

Gertrude Mary Goldsmith

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model Model of St Mary's Lambeth
where Charles Leonard married
both Elizabeth and Clara
Although Charles and Elizabeth were C of E and their children were baptized in
St John's Smith Square, Clara became a staunch Baptist and none of her children were baptized.

Site of 17 - 23 Millbank Street Today

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