Solomon family


Samuel Moss Solomon was an early Jewish settler in Australia, amongst whose descendants many achieved a degree of notability. The relationship between these descendants is complicated by three factors: the duplication of names, not only within a family line but across lines; the number of intra-family marriages; and marriages to people with the same surname but not closely related. This list is not exhaustive but includes most family members likely to be found in Wikipedia and Australian newspapers.

History

Samuel Moss Solomon had a business in London manufacturing pencils, though reports of him being an inventor or even a major manufacturer are unsupportable. He married Elizabeth Moses and had four sons: Moss Samuel, Emanuel, Vaiben and Phillip, and four daughters: Susan, Hannah, Sarah and Esther. After the death of Elizabeth he married Esther Davis, with whom he had another two children, Isaac and Elizabeth "Betsy". Their home was at 30 Wentworth Street, Spitalfields, London.
Two sons, Vaiben and Emanuel, fell foul of the law, and were transported to Sydney in 1818 on the Lady Castlereagh as convicts. Fifteen years later Samuel Moss Solomon and his wife Esther and many of their family emigrated to Australia in the Enchantress, arriving in Sydney on 24 April 1833. Sons Moss Samuel Solomon and Isaac Solomon emigrated, also several children of Susan Benjamin, née Solomon, and later Susan herself. Hannah, Sarah and Phillip were married and remained in England.
Samuel Moss Solomon died in Sydney in 1842. Ten years after the death of her husband, Esther moved to the home of her son Isaac in Adelaide, where she died some 23 years later.

Family

Samuel Moss Solomon married Elizabeth Moses. She was the mother of Moss Samuel, Susan, Emanuel, Hannah, Vaiben, Phillip, Sarah, and Esther.
He married again, to Esther Davis, with whom he had another two children: Isaac and Elizabeth "Betsy". He is reported as emigrating to Sydney with daughters Hannah and Elizabeth in April 1833. Ten years after the death of her husband, Esther moved to the home of her son Isaac in Adelaide, where she died some 23 years later.

Moss Samuel

Moss Samuel Solomon married Elizabeth "Betsy" Myers or Meyers. Second marriage to Leah Myers c. 1830
Susan Solomon married Moses Benjamin, lived in Tavistock Street, Adelaide from 1869 to 1876 at least. Susan died at the home of Isaac Asher, North Adelaide. Their family included:
MLC married fellow convict Mary Ann Wilson on 6 November 1826. On 12 April 1844 he married Cecilia "Celia" Adelaide Smith who died in Sydney; that same year he married a third time, to Catherine Abrahams. Their children included:
Hannah Solomon married Benjamin Samuel Cohen ; they never left England. She has been reported as emigrating to Sydney with her father in April 1833.
was transported for larceny to Sydney 1818, married Mary "Sarah" Smith in 1826. Vaiben and his family are listed in the subscriptions to the building of Sydney's first Synagogue. Among their children were:
Vaiben and sons David, Abraham and Saul were from before 1856 in partnership as V. Solomon and Sons, graziers at Horningsea Park, near Liverpool. Vaiben withdrew from the partnership in April 1857. His sons continued as D., A. & S. Solomon; they left the district in 1872. During his life Vaiben accumulated a considerable portfolio of properties.

Philip

Philip Solomon about whom little is known. It is likely he married and was father of Selina Sarah Solomon, later Phillips

Sarah

Sarah Solomon married Michael Joshua. They arrived in Sydney in December 1839. He was a dealer of Hindley Street, lived in Brighton, South Australia at least 1845–1853, later Melbourne, died in Cooktown. Only next of kin in Australia was Lyon Jacob Marks.
Esther Solomon married Israel Myers. She may have arrived in Hobart in January 1833.
Isaac Solomon arrived in Sydney in 1833, married Isabella Solomon, , daughter of his half-brother Moss Samuel, at the Bridge Street Synagogue, Sydney on 15 June 1842. Later had home "Elizabeth Villa" on Kent Terrace, Norwood, South Australia. He had an import business in Adelaide in partnership with nephew Judah Moss Solomon at the London end.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Solomon married Michael Cashmore in Sydney on 9 December 1840, survived wreck of the steamship PS Clonmel on 2 January 1841, to become the first Jewish settlers of Victoria. They lived at "Cashmore's Corner", 1 Elizabeth Street then Albert Park, Victoria. His sisters Esther Cashmore and Leah Cashmore married Crawcour boys, eldest Susan Cashmore married a Benjamin.
Abraham Jacob Solomon, who was not closely related to any of the above, arrived in Adelaide in 1849 from London, where his father was a dealer in army supplies. He worked on the Victorian goldfields for several years, was lessee of Emanuel Solomon's Victoria Theatre from 1861 to ?? then licensee of the Blenheim Hotel, Hindley Street, and a hotel broker. He was closely identified with the Synagogue and married Julia Isaacs. Seven daughters and two sons survived to adulthood.
Miriam Solomon married Joseph Samuel Solomon, eldest son of Emanuel Solomon above
Charles Solomon married Selina Cohen, second daughter of Louis Cohen, on 26 November 1862. Charles was born in UK, and is recognised as the earliest European resident of Cooma. He has been confused with Charles Solomon, youngest son of Vaiben Solomon.