Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Spouses
Marriage8 Sep 1841, 62 Leman St., Whitechapel, Middlesex1292
Notes for Josiah SOLOMON
Present at Death - Philip Solomon
From "Notes on the Geneology of the Phillips family" by Eric Phillips, 1951
Josiah seems to have come up to London in the early 1840's and by the time of the 1851 census was living at 134 Houndsditch, presumably over a warehouse and office, with wife, five children and two servants. A year or two later he was living in a fine-looking, eighteenth-century house, No. 11 America Square, which I remember seeing before it was destroyed in or just after the war, but he seems to have moved very soon thereafter to a hideous new Victorian villa in Clephane Road, Highbury. Presumably he remained in the family business until his early death (aged 47) in 1858, I know nothing of his appearance or personality but he is likely to have been well-off and never to have lost his Devonshire accent, as is recorded of his brother, Henry. His widow moved to 19 Upper Woburn Place, whence she married-off her son and the daughters. In her latter days she lived with my grandparents in Maida Vale, paying, I believe, the colossal sum of £800 a year, all found, for the privilege. My mother said that she was a handsome woman, though rather fearsome, and my Uncle Harold claimed that knocking her down accidentally as he rushed through the hall, late for some social occasion, lost him a large bequest under her will.
From "Notes on the Geneology of the Phillips family" by Eric Phillips, 1951
Josiah seems to have come up to London in the early 1840's and by the time of the 1851 census was living at 134 Houndsditch, presumably over a warehouse and office, with wife, five children and two servants. A year or two later he was living in a fine-looking, eighteenth-century house, No. 11 America Square, which I remember seeing before it was destroyed in or just after the war, but he seems to have moved very soon thereafter to a hideous new Victorian villa in Clephane Road, Highbury. Presumably he remained in the family business until his early death (aged 47) in 1858, I know nothing of his appearance or personality but he is likely to have been well-off and never to have lost his Devonshire accent, as is recorded of his brother, Henry. His widow moved to 19 Upper Woburn Place, whence she married-off her son and the daughters. In her latter days she lived with my grandparents in Maida Vale, paying, I believe, the colossal sum of £800 a year, all found, for the privilege. My mother said that she was a handsome woman, though rather fearsome, and my Uncle Harold claimed that knocking her down accidentally as he rushed through the hall, late for some social occasion, lost him a large bequest under her will.