Charlotte GOLDSMITH [5024]

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The Register (Adelaide) Monday 8 October 1917
CONCERNING PEOPLE
Mrs. C. Page, one of the pioneers of the State, celebrated her 80th anniversary of her birth on Thursday. Several members of her family called at her residence, Dover street, Malvern, to congratulate the old lady. Mrs. Page arrived in South Australia in 1839 in the ship Buckinghamshire [or Somersetshire that her sister, Mrs. Short, arrived on], and for a while her father (Mr. William Goldsmith) and her elder brothers were engaged in conveying timber from the hills for building purposes in Adelaide. The family resided in Goodwood, then a remote suburb of the city, but subsequently removed to Port Noarlunga, where a section of land was purchased. She married Mr. Richard Page, and lived at Noarlunga, Aldinga, and Morphett Vale before removing to Minlacowie, Yorke's Peninsula, in 1876. She retired from farming operations a few years after the death of her husband, and has lived with her daughter at Parkside, and subsequently at Malvern. Her family consists of five sons. Messrs. E. A., G. E., and R. O. Page, of Yorke's Peninsula; W. G. Page, of Fullarton; and Rev. A. E. Page, B.A., of Morphett Vale; and three daughters, (Mrs. T, R. Smith, of Mount Lofty, and Misses A. D. and M. M. Page. Mrs. Page enjoys excellent health, and lives an active life.

The Register Monday 6 December 1926
OBITUARY.
The death occurred on Saturday, of Mrs. Charlotte Page of Dover street, Malvern, who was born at Framfield, Sussex. England, in 1837. She was one of the oldest colonists in the State, having come to South Australia with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith in the Somersetshire in August, 1839. She was present at Colonel Light's funeral. Mrs. Page's parents first resided in Gouger street, Adelaide. Mr. Goldsmith, who was a sawyer by trade, helped in the con- struction of the wharf at Port Adelaide, and walked there and back, to and from work, every day. Mr. Goldsmith later began farming where Goodwood now stands, and his wife and daughters carried on dairying. There was then only one house near Unley road, and Mrs. Page used to go there, to pay for the paddocking of cows. The park lands
were covered with scrub, and Mrs. Page could recall, playing with other children where the railway station now stands. She attended a school kept by Pastor Abbott, and a Sunday school superintended by Mr. Fetherington, a Baptist minister in Adelaide. The family walked to Hindmarsh for divine service. Mrs. Page recollected tribal fights amongst the blacks. The tribe which lived on the Adelaide Plains soon died out. On her eleventh birthday Mrs. Page went to Noarlunga, to keep house for her father -her mother remaining temporarily at Goodwood. The blacks were very numerous at the mouth of the Onkaparinga. When the gold rush of the fifties started, Mrs. Page's brothers were among those who left for Victoria. After Mrs. Page's marriage, in the McLaren Vale Congregational Church to Mr. Richard Page they engaged in farming pursuit. The year 1867- known as the "redrust year"- affected them seriously, but they still held on. When land was opened upon Yorke Peninsula, they were among the first persons to settle there. Mrs. Page struggled through the trials of a pioneer's wife and the cares of bringing up a large family. After the death of her husband at Minlacowie, in 1890 Mrs. Page and her sons carried on farming. When prosperity had at length crowned their efforts, Mrs. Page came to Adelaide to spend her declining years. But she could not be idle. When the war broke out, she, being an expert at her needle, started working for the Red Cross Society, and made on an average a shirt a week for soldiers until the Armistice. Mrs. Page was for many years a member of the Baptist Church, and for the past 12 years has been connected with the Unley Park Baptist Church. Of a family of 10, seven survive her- Mr. E. A. Page of Minlaton, Y.Peninsula; Mrs. T. R. Smith of Murray Bridge; Misses A. D. and M. M Page, of the Grange and Malvern; Messrs. G. E. and O. R. Page, of Moonta and Myrtle Bank, and Rev. A. E. Page, B.A. B.D., of Seacliff. (photo included)

  Other Records

• Resided: Death, 1926, Dover St., Malvern, Adelaide.

• Resided: Farm, 1885, Lullington Farm, nr Minlaton, South Australia.

Charlotte married Richard PAGE [5023] [MRIN: 1680] on 26 Dec 1861 in MacLaren Vale, South Australia. (Richard PAGE [5023] died in 1890 in Minlacowie, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.)