Lewis SIMONS

1823 - 1893  (69 years)

• Name	Lewis SIMONS
  Birth	17 Mar 1823	London, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	6 Jun 1841	Aldgate, London, England   [3]
  	Age: 18y
  	Address: 1 Nightingale Place
  	Baker
  Occupation	6 Jun 1841	Aldgate, London, England
  	Baker
  	Age: 18y
  Census	30 Mar 1851	Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  	Age: 28y
  	Address: Old Court
  	Relation to Head of House: Lodger In a lodging house listed as travellers
  Occupation	30 Mar 1851	Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
  	Traveller
  	Age: 28y
  Census	7 Apr 1861	Bristol, Somerset, England   [4]
  	Age: 38y
  	Address: Gloucester Lane
  	Relation to Head of House: Head ??? Maker Indexed as Simmons
  Reference Number	BR 1663b
  Reference Number	BR-J
  Death	25 Feb 1893	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA   [1]
  	Age: 69y
  Person ID	I4342	Jacobs
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Tsevi SIMONS,   b. Abt 1779, Aldgate, London, England
  Mother	Reyna UZIELI,   b. Abt 1792, Whitechapel, London, England
  Family ID	F1394	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane JACOBS,   b. 2 Mar 1827, London, England d. 21 Feb 1922, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	2 Apr 1845	London, England   [1, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Maria Rayna SIMONS,   b. 20 May 1850, Gloucester, England d. 15 Dec 1898, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 48 years)   2. Hannah SIMONS,   b. Abt 1852, Bath, Somerset, England   3. Henry SIMONS,   b. Between Oct 1855 and Dec 1855, London, England   4. Moses SIMONS,   b. Between Oct 1857 and Dec 1857, Rowde, Wiltshire, England   5. David SIMONS,   b. Between Jan 1861 and Mar 1861, Clifton, Bristol, England
  Family ID	F1388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Mar 1823 - London, England Census - Age: 18y,Address: 1 Nightingale Place - 6 Jun 1841 - Aldgate, London, England Occupation - Baker,Age: 18y - 6 Jun 1841 - Aldgate, London, England Marriage - 2 Apr 1845 - London, England Census - Age: 28y,Address: Old Court - 30 Mar 1851 - Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England Occupation - Traveller,Age: 28y - 30 Mar 1851 - Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England Census - Age: 38y,Address: Gloucester Lane - 7 Apr 1861 - Bristol, Somerset, England Death - Age: 69y - 25 Feb 1893 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Lewis Simons (Mar. 1889)

  
  

• Notes

  Note from Manfred Lindner's records:- The great-grandfather, born in London, but after marriage in 1845 moved to Bristol where he and hsis wife Jane raised seven children. They immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1869/70, settling in Chicago, where they opened a furniture store on Blue Island Ave. Some time between 1875 and 1883 their son-in-law, Jacob De Costa, assumed operation of the furniture store business, and the Simons opened a shoe store on W. Madison St. (Information and chronology from Chicago City business directories). I (Manfred) know of only one anecdote, related to me by Edwin De Costa in 1990, concerning Lewis Simons. It was said that, at the funeral in 1886 for his son-in-law Jacob De Costa, a dispute erupted between Lewis and Jacob's father, Aaron (Henry) De Costa. This led to an exchange of blows between the two men, after which time there was apparently never again any communication between the two families.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2192] Manfred Lindner & Helen Redmond's notes, Bef 6 Nov 2019. [S2193] 1851 Census - HO 107/1834 F109 P18 - Simons, Bef 6 Nov 2019. [S2260] 1841 Census - HO 107/0725 B01 F05 P04/05 - Simons, Lewis, Bef 6 Nov 2019. [S2194] 1861 Census - RG 9/1733 F80 P25 - Simons, Lewis, Bef 6 Nov 2019. [S2203] Marriage Cert - Lewis Simons & Jane Jacobs, Bef 6 Nov 2019. [S60] BMD - Marriage Index, Bef 6 Nov 2019, 1845 AMJ London 2 209.