Hello Michael
Thanks for the input and the kind words for my books, hope you are well. There were a few Rito/Righto/Wrighto Smiths around at that time. The transported Rito was the son of Samuel Smith and Annamonty/Cinamenty baptised at Gloostone, Liecester in October 1825. He stayed out in Australia and died there. There was another elder Rito baptised Norton, Northamptonshire in 1814. He married Comfort Smith at Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, September 1833 and seems to be the same man buried as 'Rito Smith, 28, a Gypsy' at Stockton, Warwickshire, 20 July 1841.
Mark Hearne's wife Cinementa appears to be the daughter of a third even elder Rito, baptised at Wymington, Bedfordshire, England, in 1805, to Samuel and Sophia Smith, married in 1793. They had at least two other children, Elijah Smith, baptised ‘born in the top road’, son of Samuel Smith and Sophia 'Gipsies' at Sapcote, Leicestershire, on 31st May 1798, in a joint ceremony with Arqetta Smith, daughter of Absalom Smith and Elizabeth, and Divers Lazarus Smith, ‘born in Biggin in the town of Newton’, baptised as son of Samuel Smith and Sophia, ‘Egiptians’, on 22nd May 1803, at Clifton upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire.
That Rito Smith baptised a daughter Kezia Smith, in Northampton 1831, with a partner called Ambrate. He much later partnered Trinity smith, and had Cinementa in 1851 and her younger sister Centina in 1854. He was buried at Hendon, Middlesex, in 1868, three years after the theft by Render Smith, an age of 66 given for him on the burial.
Looking at the trial details for Render it seems he didn't actually steal the money, he acted as look out whilst John Lewis, an apprentice of Rito did the actual theft. They both then went off and spent the money on new clothes. This might have helped Render build bridges with Rito's daughters when he was eventually released from prison, maybe he'd been led astray by the other young man.
Not quite sure how these three Rito Smiths were related, though I'm sure they were. I think the elder Rito was perhaps uncle to both the younger two. The forename Righto seems to have first been used in the Buckley/Buckland family in the 1760s, so maybe there is a wider link to them too, especially as Render Smith used their surname as an alias.