Goldsmith Family Photos

Our thanks to Leonard "Lenny" Goldsmith of Lobethal, South Australia for sharing with us his family photos. Lenny is a descendant of Job Nye as follows:

Thomas Nye + Ann Walker (married 1775)

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Job Nye + Ann Rolfe (married 1815)

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Elizabeth Nye + Richard Goldsmith (married 1852)

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James George Goldsmith + Maria Barton (married 1875)

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Albert Goldsmith + Rose Turner (married approx 1913)

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Leonard Albert William Goldsmith + Jean Hay (married 1943)

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Leonard Goldsmith

Marriage Record of Richard Goldsmith and Elizabeth Nye, 25 November 1852
Witnessed by James Goldsmith and Job Nye
courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Albert Goldsmith (right) at the seaside in England
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Rose Esther Turner Goldsmith, wife of Albert Goldsmith
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Wally Turner, Rose Turner Goldsmith, and Albert Goldsmith
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Leonard Albert William Goldsmith, 1916
son of  Albert Goldsmith and Rose Turner Goldsmith
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Leonard Albert William Goldsmith, about 1918
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Leonard Albert William Goldsmith
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Leonard Albert William Goldsmith and Jean Sloan Hay
on their wedding day in Glasgow, Scotland 1943
photo courtesy of Lenny Goldsmith

Partridge and Baker Family Photos

We are very grateful to Brian Skinner, of Dorset, who has sent us a number of photos of the Partridge and Baker family descendants of Elizabeth Nye and Samuel Kite.

They are related as follows:

Thomas Nye + Ann Walker (married 1775)
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Elizabeth Nye + Samuel Kite (married 1796)

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Samuel Kite Jr + Eliza Farrell (married 1833)

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Esther Kite + John Wood Partridge (married 1873)

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Sabina Farrell Partridge + Frederick Baker (married 1899)

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Children:

Mabel Annie Baker, Frederick George Baker, Winifred Baker, Leslie John Baker

Esther Kite and husband John Wood Partridge
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Sabina Kite, sister of Esther Kite Partridge
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Esther Kite and husband John Wood Partridge
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Sabina Farrell Partridge
daughter of Esther Kite and John Partridge
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Sabina Farrell Partridge and husband Frederick Baker
with their children Winifred, Mabel and Frederick
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Kneeling: June and Ann Pickett (daughters of Bert and Mabel Pickett)
Standing: Audrey French, Sabina Partridge Baker,
Mabel Baker Pickett (daughter of Frederick and Sabina Baker), Ethel Pickett, Frederick Baker, and Bert Pickett
1951 - silver (25th) wedding anniversary of Mabel and Bert Pickett
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Frederick Baker and Sabina Partridge Baker
photo courtesy of Brian Skinner

Nye Descendants on the Titanic

Thanks to information sent to us by Leonard Goldsmith, of Lobethal, South Australia, we have been surprised to learn that there were descendants of the Nye family on the fateful voyage of the Titanic.

Thomas Nye + Ann Walker (married 1775)

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Job Nye + Ann Rolfe (married 1815)

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Elizabeth Nye + Richard Goldsmith (married 1852)

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James George Goldsmith + Maria Barton (married 1875)

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Frank John Goldsmith + Emily Alice Brown (married 1901)

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Frank John Goldsmith, Jr.

Frank John Goldsmith, the grandson of Richard Goldsmith and Elizabeth Nye Goldsmith, boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, on 10 April 1912 with his wife Emily and son Frank Jr. as 3rd Class passengers. Their destination was Detroit, Michigan, where many of Emily's family had relocated.

Frank Goldsmith Snr, his wife Emily Brown, Frank Goldsmith Jr, baby Bertie.
Photo taken in Kent, England about 1907. The baby died in Kent in 1911.

When the ship struck the iceberg on 15 April 1912, Frank Sr. woke his wife and son, and, together with others made their way to the forward end of the Boat Deck, where lifeboat Collapsible C was being loaded. There was a ring of seamen standing around the boat, letting only women and children pass through.

Frank Jr. wrote of the experience in his book, Echoes in the Night: "Mother and I then were permitted through the gateway." He later recalled "My dad reached down and patted me on the shoulder and said, ‘So long, Frankie, I’ll see you later.’ He didn’t and he may have known he wouldn’t." Frank Goldsmith Sr. died in the sinking. His body was never recovered.

The story of Frank John Goldsmith Jr. is very well told on a page dedicated to him on Wikipedia. The story of his mother, Emily Alice Brown Goldsmith, is also told on the website Encyclopedia Titanica.

Emily Alice Brown Goldsmith later married Henry Illman.

Wedding photo of
Emily Alice Brown Goldsmith and Henry Illman
courtesy of Leonard Goldsmith

New information

I have been adding birth, marriage and death certificates to the blog but you will have to scroll through the families to find what I have added.  I will be working on adding more as I get time, I hope this will be useful to those searching for Nye information.  
Janice