When Thomas Edward Goldsmith was born on 16 November 1884, in Preston, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Goldsmith, was 29 and his mother, Amy Upton, was 29. He married Emily Cissa Sheppard in October 1909, in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. He died in June 1957, in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
English: occupational name for a worker in gold, from Middle English goldsmith, Old English goldsmith ‘goldsmith’, a compound of gold ‘gold’ + smith ‘smith’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German Goldschmidt , and also of its Dutch equivalent Goldsmit.
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