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Excerpt from Goldsmith's the Traveller, And, the Deserted Village: Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Mother: Ann Jones, daughter of the Rev. Oliver Jones, master of the Diocesan school at Elphin.
Father: The Rev. Charles Goldsmith, portrayed in the village preacher of The Deserted Village, and in Dr. Primrose of The Vicar of Wakefield.
The Goldsmiths were of English origin. The Irish branch emigrated to Ireland about the sixteenth century.
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