BIOGRAPHY: Mr Frank John Goldsmith
Mr Frank John Goldsmith, 33, was born January 27, 1879. A resident of Stroud, Kent he was emigrating to America with his wife Emily Alice Brown and 9 year old son Frankie. Another son, Bertie, had died from diptheria towards the end of 1911.
Frank worked as a tool maker, among their possessions stored in the hold of the Titanic were the tools he used in his trade. The family were travelling to Detroit, Michigan.
Frank and his family boarded the Titanic at Southampton as third class passengers. Travelling to Detroit with them were his friend Thomas Theobald and Alfred Rush. Alfred John George Rush, 16, from Kent was travelling with Frank Goldsmith and family. Frank had promised to deliver the young man to his brother in Detroit, Michigan
Frank Goldsmith died in the sinking.BIOGRAPHY: source http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography.php?id=828
BIOGRAPHY: Mrs Emily Alice Goldsmith (née Brown)
Mrs Frank John Goldsmith (Emily Alice Brown), 31, was born in the Autumn of 1880.
A resident of Stroud, Kent she was emigrating to America with her husband Frank and 9 year old son Frankie. Another son, Bertie, had died from diptheria towards the end of 1911.
Emily was the only one of nine children not to have already emigrated, now Emily too was crossing the Atlantic to a new life. The family were travelling to Detroit, Michigan.
Emily Goldsmith and her family boarded the Titanic at Southampton as third class passengers. During the voyage she got to know May Howard who was travelling to Canada. Emily and Frankie were rescued, probably in Collapsible C.
After their rescue Emily and Frankie made their way to Detroit where they settled. Emily found employment as a dressmaker. She acted as a volunteer for the American Red Cross during World War Two.
Emily eventually remarried to Harry Illman, she died September 22, 1955 on board a train in Ashland Ohio where many of her family lived.
source: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography.php?id=829
Daughter of John Caryl b abt 1854 and Ruth Robert b abt 1853
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