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Husband: Alec Woodford SOLOMON
Name: Alec Woodford SOLOMON Sex: Male Nickname: Bokkie Father: Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON (1879-1942) Mother: Blanche BUYSKES ( abt 1887 - abt 1967 ) Birth Jan 1920 (app) South Africa Occupation Lieutenant, S.A. Navy & Accountant/Finance Administrator - SA Govt.; Cape Town, South Africa Religion Church of England Death 11 Oct 1985 (age 65) Fishoek, Cape Prov. S.Africa Burial 1985 (age 64-65) Cremation, Fishoek, Cape Prov. S.Africa Additional Information: Ancestors of Alex Woodford Solomon:
The section below was revised on 10 September 2009First Generation
1. Nathaniel SOLOMON was born in 1754 (approx.) in of Kent, England. He married Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND in 1776 (approx.). He died in 1816 (approx.).
Nathaniel and Phoebe had 21 children [see biographical note of Brown Family Papers].
Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND was born in 1761 (approx.) in Holland.
Phoebe de Mitz was part of a Dutch Jewish family some of whom settled in London. (Her sister Matilda de Metz married Levy Salomons and they are the parents of Philip Salomons and Sir David Salomons). Phoebe de Metz married Nathaniel Solomon at the age of 15 and apparently was left a widow at 40 and lived to a ripe old age in comfortable circumstances in London.
Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND and Nathaniel SOLOMON had the following children:
+2 Saul SOLOMON (1776-1852)
+3 Joseph SOLOMON ( - )
+4 Benjamin SOLOMON (1785- )
+5 Lewis SOLOMON ( - )
+6 Charles SOLOMON ( - )
Second Generation
2. Saul SOLOMON, son of Nathaniel SOLOMON and Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND, was born on 25 December 1776 in Possibly Margate, Kent. He was a Merchant and Agent and famous in St. Helena. He married Margaret LEE before 1800. After Margaret’s death, he married Mary CHAMBERLAIN in 1815 in Saint Helena, Atlantic Islands. He then married Harriet BRYAN on 29 May 1824 in Saint Helena. Saul died of softening of the brain, paralysis, apoplexy, 9 months certified on 6 December 1852 in 'Eastwood' in Portishead, Bristol, England.
If one man dominates St.Helena's history it must, according to 'the outside world', surely be Napoleon Bonaparte. But the experience of daily life tells St.Helenians differently. Long before Napoleon arrived, Saul Solomon had founded a business that, after 200 years, still wields all-pervasive influence over their affairs. Yet the founder is as little known as St.Helena's other benefactors. So what can a search, far from Island sources, reveal about St.Helena's "Merchant-King"?
Solomon's origins seem mantled in mystery. Where and when he was born, why and how he reached St.Helena, no-one yet knows. Tradition has it that he was born in London about 1776 and in his 'teens set out for India on a ship sailing via St.Helena. There he was left at death's door and nursed back to health by an officer's family. Geoffrey Kitching, pre-war government secretary, told W.E.G.Solomon that he was a corporal in the St.Helena Corps in 1796. But the India Office Library has no record of this.
During Saul's business career ships increased from about 150 to over a thousand a year, St.Helena became a haven for American whalers and a base for the Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, with a Vice-Admiralty Court condemning slavers and unseaworthy vessels to the benefit of Jamestown's ship chandlers.
Solomon had funds for speculation when it mattered, which perhaps explains partners such as the shadowy Dickson and Taylor, George Janisch of Teutonic Hall, and Robert Morrison, who had the fact inscribed on his grave in 1865. (Daniel Hamilton's memorial in 1867 also records service to the Company). But when calamity fell, like the collapse of the St.Helena Whale Fishery Co., it was rivals, Thomas Baker, John Scott and others, who lost, not Solomon, Gideon or Moss. Ironically, forty years later his successors ignored, or were ignorant of, this experience and made a disastrous investment in the Island whaler, Elizabeth. If Saul speculated unwisely, it has yet to be discovered. At the watershed of St.Helena history - the Island's transfer from the Company to the Crown in 1836 - he was again among the winners, as old Company landed families sold out at great loss, while merchants took their pickings and prospered.
Saul was no less skilful in climbing the social ladder as the Napoleonic era receded. Despite being 'in trade', which normally put one beyond the pale of polite society, he and his partners were invited to sit with 'gentlemen' on various committees - Benefit, Benevolent, Fire and those of other social welfare societies. Solomon, Gideon and Moss virtually ran the Annuity Fund Committee. Indicators abound of rising social status. In 1823 Saul's daughter Phoebe married Capt. T.M.Hunter of the St.Helena Artillery; in 1838 his son Henry (1806-47) became Colonial Surgeon and Health Officer, whose widow married Governor Sir Patrick Ross; they were leading Freemasons, churchwardens and JPs. For 50 years they almost monopolised the prestigious post of Sheriff ("no salary") through Saul Solomon (1839-42, 1846-50), Lewis Gideon [changed his name from Solomon] (1842-4, 1852-6), Nathaniel Solomon (1850-52, 1859-60), George Moss (1870-80) and Saul Solomon, jun. (1880-88). In short, during the founder's lifetime, Solomon & Co. became pillars of the Establishment and of the Church, to be symbolised finally by Homfray Welby Solomon (1877-1960), grandson of Bishop Welby, Churchwarden and Member of Council (from 1898), commercial and social Island Supremo - "King Sol". His death on 30 October 1960 at 83 ended the Solomon dynasty at St.Helena, and in 1974 the firm, dominating Island production and commerce, was 'nationalised' by the St.Helena Government. Among his Victorian competitors only W.A.Thorpe & Sons now survive as independent merchant-landowners.
Saul was undertaker at many Anglican funerals, in 1818 at that of Napoleon's Roman Catholic valet, Cipriani.
In 1971 by the north wall of St.James' Church, St. Helena is the following gravestone inscription:
Sacred to the Memory of S.Solomon, Esq.
who died in England
on the Sixth of December 1852
Aged 76 years.
Historical Note:
Notes from a Prayer Book that belonged to Saul Solomon. The inscription reads:
S. Solomon. The gift of his mother which he received by the Europea Store Ship,
4th July 1808.
S. Solomon, born 25th December 1776
Margaret Solomon, born 1st October 1782
Births:
Benjamin Solomon, born 23rd June 1801
Phoebe Solomon, born 20th May 1804
Henry Rob Solomon, born 28th July 1806
Miriam Solomon, born 8th July 1808
John Blenham Solomon, born 2nd December 1810
The above were born at St. Helena.
Margaret Sarah Solomon, born 5th January 1813 at 3 a.m. in London,
West Square
Lee Solomon, born 29th March 1815 at S. Helena
It pleased the Almighty to take from me my dear wife, Margaret Solomon, the 14th June 1815 at 2 o'clock p.m.
The Prayer Book is on indefinite loan to the Jewish Library in Cape.
Margaret LEE was born on 1 October 1782. She died on 14 June 1815. She and Saul SOLOMON had the following children:
+7 Henry Rob SOLOMON (1806-1847)
+8 Phoebe SOLOMON (1804- )
+9 Benjamin SOLOMON (1801- )
+10 Miriam SOLOMON (1808- )
+11 John Blenham SOLOMON (1810- )
+12 Margaret Sarah SOLOMON (1813- )
+13 Lee SOLOMON (1815- )
3. Joseph SOLOMON, son of Nathaniel SOLOMON and Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND, was born in of Kent, England. He was an Innkeeper in St. Helena, S.Atlantic & Foreign Merchant. He married Hannah MOSS in 1814. He left St. Helena for Cape Town in 1830.
Joseph's family went about 1830, leading to the rise of their son, Saul (1817-92) - the famous "member for Cape Town" and founder of The Cape Argus - whose memorial is in St.James' Church.
Hannah MOSS and Joseph SOLOMON had the following children:
+14 Nathaniel SOLOMON (1815- )
+15 Henry SOLOMON (1816-1900)
+16 Saul SOLOMON (1817-1892)
+17 Rev. Edward SOLOMON (1820-1886)
+18 Benjamin SOLOMON (1825- )
+19 Isabella SOLOMON (1826- )4. Benjamin SOLOMON, son of Nathaniel SOLOMON and Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND, was born in 1785 in Margate, Kent, England. He was a Merchant in St. Helena, S.Atlantic. He married Johanna Petronella du PLESSIS on 11 October 1807 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Johanna Petronella du PLESSIS was born on 8 March 1789 in Paarl, Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa. She and Benjamin SOLOMON had the following child:
+20 Charles Benjamin SOLOMON (1808- )
5. Lewis SOLOMON, son of Nathaniel SOLOMON and Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND, was a Merchant, Jeweller & Notary Public in St. Helena. He married Julia MAGNUS in 1818.
6. Charles SOLOMON was the son of Nathaniel SOLOMON and Phoebe de Mitz of Leyden, HOLLAND.Charles married in 1798.
Third Generation
7. Henry Rob SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 8 July 1806 in St. Helena, S.Atlantic. He was a Colonial Surgeon and Health Officer, St. Helena, S.Atlantic. He died in 1847.
8. Phoebe SOLOMON, daughter of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 20 May 1804 in St. Helena. She married [unnamed person] in 1823 in St. Helena.
9. Benjamin SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 23 June 1801 in St. Helena.
10. Miriam SOLOMON, daughter of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 8 July 1808 in St. Helena.
11. John Blenham SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 2 December 1810 in St. Helena.
12. Margaret Sarah SOLOMON, daughter of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 5 January 1813 in West Square, London, England.
13. Lee SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Margaret LEE, was born on 29 March 1815 in St. Helena.
14. Nathaniel SOLOMON, son of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born in 1815 in Saint Helena, Atlantic Islands.
15. Henry SOLOMON, son of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born in 1816 in Saint Helena, South Atlantic. He was a Printer/Stationer & Part Owner of Cape Argus. He married Julia MIDDLETON in 1840. He died in 1900 in Cape Town, South Africa.
In 1844 there came to live at the foot of Queens Road a man who might well deserve to be known as the Father of Green and Sea Point. His name was Henry Solomon, and for 56 years he lived at Sea Point Cottage, just above the beach, where flats called Albenor now stand. In that same house, where all his eleven children were born, he died in 1900 after giving nearly sixty years of devoted and entirely disinterested service to his community. Henry Solomon was born on the island of St Helena in 1816, the year after Waterloo.
He would often tell his children how, as a small boy, he was lifted up by his mother to look on the face of the dead Napoleon as the Emperor lay in state at Longwood. With one of his brothers, Saul, Henry Solomon was sent to England for his early education. Both boys developed rheumatic fever, an illness that left them crippled and - more especially, Saul - dwarfed in stature, but in other respects it affected them little. In 1831 the Solomon parents, with their children, left St Helena and came to settle in Cape Town, where young Henry eventually became an accountant. In 1840 he married Miss Julia Middleton, of Rondebosch, and four years later they came to live at Sea Point Cottage, one of the houses built shortly after the break-up of Alexander's estate in 1818.
Henry with his brother Saul started printing the Cape Argus in 1858.
Appears in Voters list of Western Cape for 1878 giving his residence as 49 & 50 St. George's Street. Also owned Sea Point Cottage,
Sea Point , Cape Town and appears in Voters list of Western Cape for 1882 giving his residence as 42 St. George's Street, Cape Town.Julia MIDDLETON and Henry SOLOMON had the following children:
+21 Mary SOLOMON (1847-1935)
+22 Alfred Viner SOLOMON (1854-1896)
+23 Ellen SOLOMON ( - )
+24 Henry SOLOMON ( - )
+25 Julia Sophia SOLOMON (frm1857-1929?)
16. Saul SOLOMON, son of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born on 25 May 1817 in Saint Helena. He was a Printer/Stationer/Publisher & Part Owner of Cape Argus. In 1865 he was resident in Clarensville, Sea Point, Cape Province. He married Georgiana Margaret THOMSON in 1873. He appeared in the census on 5 April 1891 in St. Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire. He died of Chronic tubular nephritis, on 16 October 1892 in Kilcreggan, Dumbarton, Scotland.
Saul Solomon (b. St. Helena May 25, 1817; d. Oct. 16, 1892), the leader of the Liberal party, has been called the "Cape Disraeli." He several times declined the premiership and was invited into the first responsible ministry, formed by Sir John Molteno. Like Disraeli, too, he early left the ranks of Judaism, but always remained a lover of his people. He went to Cape Town when a lad, where, with his brother Henry, he started a printing-office and, later, founded and edited the "Cape Argus." Descendants of these two brothers, Justice Solomon, Sir Richard Solomon (attorney-general of the Transvaal), and E. P. Solomon, are to-day among the most eminent men in South Africa. The few other St. Helena Jews who settled there during Napoleon's banishment, the Gideon, the Moss, and the Isaacs families, were all related to the Solomons, and, like the members of the last-named family, most of them drifted from Judaism.
Saul with his brother Henry started printing the Cape Argus in 1858
Memorial in St.James' Church, St. Helena to Saul.
It may be said with little fear of contradiction that after John Fairbairn left to take up residence in the suburbs the most noteworthy person to make his home at Sea Point was Saul Solomon, who came to live at a house above the beach, well known as Clarensville, not far from where his brother Henry was living at Sea Point Cottage.
How Saul Solomon reached Cape Town from St Helena in 1831 has already been told; how, too, an early illness had left him a dwarf in stature. At Cape Town he became a printer and engraver. He started his own firm, and in course of time secured most of the Government printing contracts. He became the owner of The Cape Argus newspaper. When in 1854 Cape Colony was granted representative government, Saul Solomon was elected Member for Cape Town in the first Cape Parliament. 'For many years he exercised an authority and influence in the House such as later fell to Jan Hofmeyr . . . and, as in later years no eminent traveller considered his visit to the Cape complete until he had been to Groote Schuur or to Camp Street [where Hofmeyr lived], so travellers would repair to Clarensville to hold converse with the great little man.' The boy from St Helena had become the leading figure in Cape politics.
Saul Solomon bought Clarensville in 1865 from Mr James King, of Phillips and King, one of the leading firms in Cape Town at that time. It is not known how, or when, Clarensville acquired its name. The house stood in grounds that extended from what is now Clarens Road almost as far as Cassel Road. From Regent Road the estate stretched down to greensward at the water's edge, glimpsed through rows of tall pine trees; there were 60 of them in the grounds of Clarensville. No Beach Road yet disturbed the tranquillity of this corner of Sea Point.
Mrs Solomon had originally come to South Africa as principal of the Good Hope Seminary in Cape Town. Years later, after her husband had died and she was living in London, she became prominently associated with the Women's Suffrage Movement in Great Britain. Here, at Clarensville, she was hostess at Saul Solomon's famous dinners, to which were invited everyone who mattered in the world of politics. Here, too, she was hostess in 1879, when Cetewayo, the defeated King of the Zulus, was permitted to leave his captivity at the Castle to go to luncheon with the Solomons at Clarensville. Cetewayo was only one of numerous Africans to be received there, for Saul Solomon was a fearless 'negrophilist' - to use the contemporary term.
All this sounds as though life at Clarensville was a very serious affair, but this was not the case. There were always young people about the place, not only Saul Solomon's own children but nephews and nieces to whom he gave a home at Sea Point. Among those taken in at Clarens-ville was Dick Solomon, who as a youngster had gone away to sea, serving at one time in the little mail ship Briton, of the Union Line. From her storm-swept decks, during that awful gale of 1865, he watched the other mail ship, Athens, steaming out of Table Bay to meet her doom at Mouille Point. Colonel R. Stuart Solomon, as he eventually became, was, in later life, closely associated with the well-known Cape Town hof R. M. Ross, in Strand Street. He then lived at Camelon House, a spacious place behind Clarensville, where today, in Regent Road, there stand a nondescript Jewish Assembly Hall and a cheap conglomeration of shops. From time to time there were also three other nephews staying at Clarensville, sons of the Revd Edward Solomon. All three in later life attained to high office in the service of their country and were knighted: Sir Richard, Sir Edward and Sir William.
Article taken from Ancestry24 South Africa
Saul Solomon – Statesman, printer and newspaper proprietor. Born in St. Helena on the 25th May 1817, he was of Jewish parents, Joseph and Hannah Solomon, of Kent who joined Joseph’s brother Saul, who was the leading merchant in the then flourishing island of St. Helena. Saul Solomon died in Kilcreggan (Scotland) on the 16th October 1892.
Young Saul was sent to England in 1822 to be educated with his elder brother Henry, under the care of a Jewish schoolmaster. (In later life he joined the Congregational Church, but did not sever all ties with the Jewish faith.) When the South African College was inaugurated in CapeTown in 1829, Saul, who had returned from Europe, was sent to Cape Town to become one of the college’s first students, and he was the principal prizeman at the first public examination.
His parents’ circumstances obliging him to end his formal education in 1831, he was apprenticed to the bookseller and printer George Greig. Saul rose to a partnership and about 1847, with his brother Henry, who had also been employed by Greig, acquired the proprietorship of the firm, since then called Saul Solomon & Co. The brothers printed the Government Gazette and, from its foundation in 1857, the Cape Argus, of which Saul became owner in 1863. For many years he did the bulk of all printing work at the Cape.
Saul Solomon played a leading part in the commercial progress of the Colony and accelerated the movement for the construction of the Cape Town docks and breakwater. In his day he was reproached for having been chiefly instrumental in ‘originating the railways, the docks and the telegraphs’. He played a great part in the Anti-Convict Agitation of 1849 and was among the founders of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company, the Cape of Good Hope Gas Company, the Cape of Good Hope Savings Bank, and the Equitable Fire Office.
In 1854 Solomon was elected to represent Cape Town in the first Cape parliament, and he remained the member for Cape Town for 28 years. He declared himself opposed to ‘all legislation tending to introduce distinctions either of class, colour or creed’. From the first he became a leading figure in the House of Assembly, although he was so short that he had to stand on a footstool when addressing Parliament. His trunk was of normal size, but his legs were distorted and very short, as a result of inadequate treatment for rheumatic fever, followed by rickets, when he was a child. He could walk, but had to be assisted when boarding a cab. In one of his rare public references to his disability he said he had `the aspirations and passions of a man in the frame of a child’.
Solomon played a major part in securing responsible government for the Colony and when in 1872 it was achieved he was invited to form the first ministry, but declined because his physical handicap would have precluded much traveling, which he regarded as essential for a Prime Minister.
As early as 1854 he expressed himself in favour of an ultimate federation in South Africa. His Voluntary Bill to abolish State aid to churches and thus to extend equality of treatment to all religious denominations, first introduced in 1854 and repeatedly rejected over many years, was carried in 1875. He assiduously opposed unjust treatment of Natives and successfully opposed the separatist movement that emanated from the Eastern Province. Although he never took office, he was said to have made and unmade ministries. In Parliament he was the bench-mate of ‘Onze Jan’ Hofmeyr and evidently influenced him. ‘I believe that it would have been hardly possible’ , wrote Anthony Trollope, ‘to pass any measure of importance through the Cape legislature to which Solomon offered a strenuous opposition’; and the historian Froude found Solomon to be ‘the one politician at the Cape who never had an object in view except what he believed to be right and just’. In 1883 he retired from Parliament on account of ill health, and in 1888 went to live at Bedford in England, later in a village on Clydeside. His personal letters were presented to the South African Library by his 92-year old daughter Daisy in December 1972.
When Saul Solomon was 56 years of age, he married the 29-year-old Georgiana Margaret Thomson from Abbotsford, Scotland, who had taught in Liverpool until she was persuaded, in 1873, by Dr. Charles Murray of Edinburgh to accept the post of principal of the newly founded Good Hope Seminary in Cape Town. She married Solomon the next year. A highly intelligent woman, she was a fine public speaker and after her husband’s death, took part in the women’s suffrage movement in England and, with her youngest daughter, was rewarded with a month in Holloway prison.
The plight of Boer families ruined by the war in South Africa brought her back to further the interests of Boer women and children in the Transvaal in 1904. She wrote eloquent articles appealing for funds and founded the Suid-Afrikaanse Vrouefederasie, which is still in existence. Mrs. Solomon died at Eastbourne on 24 June 1933. Of the Solomons’ five children, Margaret (Maggie) was drowned at the age of five; George died as a child; Saul became a judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court; W. E. Gladstone, who entered the Indian civil service, became a Cape landscape and portrait painter and wrote his father’s biography; and Daisy Dorothea, who did not marry, played a prominent part in women’s organisations in England.
P113L. W.E.G. Solomon: Saul Solomon, the member for Cape Town (1948); John Noble: South Africa past and present (1877); R.W. Murray: South African reminiscences (1904); P.A. Molteno: The life and times of Sir John Charles Molteno (1900); Ralph Kilpin: The romance of a colonial parliament (1930).
Source: SESA (Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa).
Georgiana Margaret THOMSON, daughter of George THOMPSON ( - ) and Margaret Stuart SCOTT ( - ), was born on 18 August 1844 in Markerstoun, Roxburgh, Scotland. She died on 24 June 1933 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England.
When Saul Solomon was 56 years of age, he married the 29-year-old Georgiana Margaret Thomson from Abbotsford, Scotland, who had taught in Liverpool until she was persuaded, in 1873, by Dr. Charles Murray of Edinburgh to accept the post of principal of the newly founded Good Hope Seminary in Cape Town. She married Solomon the next year. A highly intelligent woman, she was a fine public speaker and after her husband's death, took part in the women's suffrage movement in England and, with her youngest daughter, was rewarded with a month in Holloway prison.
The plight of Boer families ruined by the war in South Africa brought her back to further the interests of Boer women and children in the Transvaal in 1904. She wrote eloquent articles appealing for funds and founded the Suid-Afrikaanse Vrouefederasie, which is still in existence. Mrs. Solomon died at Eastbourne on 24 June 1933. Of the Solomons' five children, Margaret (Maggie) was drowned at the age of five; George died as a child; Saul became a judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court; W. E. Gladstone, who entered the Indian civil service, became a Cape landscape and portrait painter and wrote his father's biography; and Daisy Dorothea, who did not marry, played a prominent part in women's organisations in England.
Georgiana Margaret THOMSON and Saul SOLOMON had the following children:
+26 Margaret SOLOMON ( - )
+27 George SOLOMON ( - )
+28 Saul SOLOMON (1876- )
+29 W.E. Gladstone SOLOMON (1880- )
+30 Daisy Dorothea SOLOMON (1881-aft1972)
17. Rev. Edward SOLOMON, son of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born in 1820. He died in 1886. He married Jessie MATTHEWS.
Jessie MATTHEWS and Rev. Edward SOLOMON had the following children:
+31 Sir Edward SOLOMON ( - )
+32 Sir Richard Stuart SOLOMON ( - )
+33 Sir William Henry SOLOMON K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., M.A. (1852-1930)
+34 Emilie Jane SOLOMON ( - )
18. Benjamin SOLOMON, son of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born in 1825 in South Africa.
19. Isabella SOLOMON, daughter of Joseph SOLOMON and Hannah MOSS, was born in 1826 in Saint Helena.
20. Charles Benjamin SOLOMON, son of Benjamin SOLOMON and Johanna Petronella du PLESSIS, was born on 11 February 1808 in South Africa. He married Elizabeth Jacoba LUYT.
Fourth Generation
21. Mary SOLOMON, daughter of Henry SOLOMON and Julia MIDDLETON, was born in 1847 in Cape Town, South Africa. She died in 1935 in Cape Town. She married Dr. John BROWN of Fraserburg.
Geographical Note:
Fraserburg is situated on a plateau to the north of the Nuweveld Mountains at a height of 1 260 m above sea level. The nearest Railway station is Leeu Gamka on the N1 between Cape Town and Beaufort West.
Dr. John BROWN, son of John Croumbie BROWN ( - ) and Erskine BROWN (1806- ), was a Dist.Surgeon, Fraserburg 1865-1876/later Edinburgh & Burnley, Lancs. He died in 1829. He was born on 21 July 1842.
Refer to the Brown Family Papers at University of Cape Town Libraries.
Dr. John BROWN and Mary SOLOMON had the following children:
+35 Rachel BROWN ( - )
+36 Julia Mary BROWN ( - )
22. Alfred Viner SOLOMON, son of Henry SOLOMON and Julia MIDDLETON, was born on 26 September 1854 in Cape Town. He was a Clerk in 1878 in his father's business then an Accountant. He was educated "1868 to 1871" in South African College, Cape Town. He died on 13 August 1896 in Cape Town. He was buried in 1896 in Plot No : 318b, : St. Peters Cemetery Observatory, Cape Town. He married Minnie PILKINGTON.
VOTERS' LIST FOR 1878 SHOWS:
Source = Voters List. Western Cape 1878. Cape Colony Publication Vol 11\1\7
Source Location = Cape Town Archives Repository
Notes: Civil Commissioner's Office: Cape Town
Surname: Solomon
First Names: Alfred Viner
Residence: 49, and 50 St. Georges-street
Occupation: Clerk
Qualification: Salary
Voters No: 496
Provincial District: Western Cape
Electoral Division: Cape Town
District No: 3
Municipality: Green Point.
Minnie PILKINGTON was the daughter of George William PILKINGTON (1822-1908) and Mary BERRY (1822?-1863). She and Alfred Viner SOLOMON had the following children:
+37 Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON (1879-1942)
+38 Minnie Winifred SOLOMON (1884-1938)
+39 Frank Middleton SOLOMON (1890- )23. Ellen SOLOMON was the daughter of Henry SOLOMON and Julia MIDDLETON.
24. Henry SOLOMON, son of Henry SOLOMON and Julia MIDDLETON, was a Clerk in his father's business.
Appears in 1878 Voters list for Western Cape giving his residence as 49 and 50 St. George's St., Cape Town and is listed as a salaried Clerk.
25. Julia Sophia SOLOMON, daughter of Henry SOLOMON and Julia MIDDLETON, was born from 1857 to 1858 in Cape Town. She died in 1929 ("after") in Cape Town. She married Charles Arthur PILKINGTON.
Charles Arthur PILKINGTON, son of George William PILKINGTON (1822-1908) and Mary BERRY (1822?-1863), was born in 1850 (approx.) in Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa. He was a Storekeeper [as at 1884]. He died in 1901 in O'Kiep, Namaqualand, Cape. Sth Africa. He was buried in 1901 in O'Kiep Cemetery, Namaqualand, Cape. Sth Africa. He and Julia Sophia SOLOMON had the following children:
+40 George William PILKINGTON (1879-1958)
+41 Charles Arthur PILKINGTON (1881- )
+42 Ethel Mary PILKINGTON (1884- )
+43 Henry Lionel Gordon PILKINGTON (1886-1968)
+44 Enid Isabel PILKINGTON (1889- )
+45 Marjorie Doris PILKINGTON (1893- )
26. Margaret SOLOMON was the daughter of Saul SOLOMON and Georgiana Margaret THOMSON.
27. George SOLOMON was the son of Saul SOLOMON and Georgiana Margaret THOMSON.
28. Saul SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Georgiana Margaret THOMSON, was born in 1876 in Cambridgeshire, England. He was a Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court.
29. W.E. Gladstone SOLOMON, son of Saul SOLOMON and Georgiana Margaret THOMSON, was born in 1880 in Cambridgeshire. He was an Indian Civil Service/Cape Landscape and Portrait Painter. W.E. Gladstone Solomon wrote his father's biography.
30. Daisy Dorothea SOLOMON, daughter of Saul SOLOMON and Georgiana Margaret THOMSON, was born on 21 October 1881 in Cambridgeshire. She appeared in the census on 31 March 1901 in Hamilton Terrace, Marylebone, London. She died after December 1972.
Daisy was still alive in December 1972 [age 92]. She remained unmarried.
In 1947 she is registered in the London Telephone Directory living at 7 Helenslea Avenue, Speedwell, London NW11.31. Sir Edward SOLOMON was the son of Rev. Edward SOLOMON and Jessie MATTHEWS.
32. Sir Richard Stuart SOLOMON, son of Rev. Edward SOLOMON and Jessie MATTHEWS, was a Merchant Navy with the Union Line.
33. Sir William Henry SOLOMON K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., M.A., son of Rev. Edward SOLOMON and Jessie MATTHEWS, was born in 1852 in Phillipolis, Orange Free State, South Africa. He was a Chief Justice of South Africa, Judge of the High Court of the Transvaal. He married Maud Elizabeth CHRISTIAN on 9 September 1920. He died on 14 June 1930.
Maud Elizabeth CHRISTIAN, daughter of Henry Bailey CHRISTIAN ( - ) and Mary Ann SMITH ( - ), died in 1859. She and Sir William Henry SOLOMON K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., M.A. did not have children.
34. Emilie Jane SOLOMON was the daughter of Rev. Edward SOLOMON and Jessie MATTHEWS.
Fifth Generation
35. Rachel BROWN, daughter of Dr. John BROWN of Fraserburgh, Scotland and Mary SOLOMON, married James DICK in 1902.
James DICK and Rachel BROWN had the following children:
+47 Molly Graham DICK ( - )
36. Julia Mary BROWN, daughter of Dr. John BROWN and Mary SOLOMON, married Pieter Hugo NAUDE in 1915.
Pieter Hugo NAUDE was born in 1869 in Worcester, S.Africa. He was an Artist/Oil Painter. He died in 1941.
Biographical Snippet:
Born on the farm, 'Aan-de-Doorns'; his second name, by which he is known to the public, was his mother's family-name. After schooling at Over Hex and Worcester, Pieter Hugo Naudé returned to the farm; his talent was recognized and encouraged, notably by Olive Schreiner.
1889: Pieter Hugo Naudé went with her to Europe; she provided an introduction to Havelock Ellis, who recommended the Slade School. Following his studies in London and Europe, Pieter Hugo Naudé worked for a short while in Italy.
1896: Pieter Hugo Naudé returned to South Africa, painted on the farm, mainly portraiture; travelled by caravan to Namaqualand, Drakensberg and as far as the Victoria Falls; completed numerous silverpoint drawings.
1902: Pieter Hugo Naudé joined the South African Society of Artists and exhibited with the Society.
1904-13: moved to Worcester where he built his home and studio (preserved as Hugo Naude House); became known as "Artist Naude".
1913: Pieter Hugo Naudé journeyed via the East Coast to Jerusalem; a further year of study in London and in Munich.
1915: Pieter Hugo Naudé married Julia Brown of Cape Town.
37. Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON, son of Alfred Viner SOLOMON and Minnie PILKINGTON, was born on 27 January 1879 in Sea Point, Cape Province. He was an Accountant and Auditer. He married Blanche BUYSKES in 1908. He died in 1942 in Cape Town, South Africa.
WHOSE WHO FOR 1929 IN CAPE TOWN SHOWS:
Surname: Solomon
First Names: Alec Viner
Occupation: Accountant
Source: Who's Who 1908
Surname: Solomon
First Names: Alec Viner
Date Of Birth: 27 January 1879
Place Of Birth: Sea Point, Cape Province
Occupation: Accountant and Auditer
Fathers Surname: Solomon
Fathers First Names: Alfred Vimer
Spouse Surname: Buyskes
Spouse First Names: Blanche
Marriage Date: 1908
Other Iinformation: 6 Children
Source: Who's Who 1929
DECEASED ESTATES INDEX SHOWS:
Surname: Solomon
First Names: Alec Viner Pilkington
Year: 1942
Volume: 6/9/8507
Reference: 77119
Source: Master's Office / Orphan Chamber, Cape Town (MOOC)
Source Location: Cape Town Archives Repository.
Blanche BUYSKES was born in 1887 (approx.). She died in 1967 (approx.) in Wynberg or Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa.
Following found in National Archives of South Africa
DEPOT KAB
SR/SN 000/00
SOURCE AGR
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 641
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE U196
PART 1
DESCRIPTION STAFF: MRS BLANCHE L SOLOMON, NEE BUYSKES.
STARTING 1904
ENDING 1908.
Blanche BUYSKES and Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON had the following children:
+48 Margaret Minnie SOLOMON (1908-2008)
+49 Joan SOLOMON ( - )
+50 Avice Viner SOLOMON ( - )
+51 Alec Woodford SOLOMON (1920?-1985)
+52 Shirley SOLOMON ( - )
+53 Beth SOLOMON ( - )
38. Minnie Winifred SOLOMON, daughter of Alfred Viner SOLOMON and Minnie PILKINGTON, was born in 1884 in Plumstead, Cape Town, South Africa. She married Norman Campbell LEITH in Plumstead. She died in 1938.
Norman Campbell LEITH was born in 1880 in Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa. He died in 1972 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He and Minnie Winifred SOLOMON had the following children:
+54 Winifred Pilkington LEITH ( - )
39. Frank Middleton SOLOMON, son of Alfred Viner SOLOMON and Minnie PILKINGTON, was born on 4 August 1890. He was christened on 13 November 1890 in St. Johns Anglican Church, Wynberg.
St Johns Anglican Church Wynberg Baptisms
Solomon, Frank
Surname: Solomon
Childs Firstname: Frank
Childs Second Name: Middleton
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 August 1890
Baptism Date: 13 November 1890
Fathers First Name: Alfred
Fathers Second Name: Viner?
Mothers First Name: Minnie
Suburb 1: Wynberg
Fathers Occupation 2: No Profession
Sponsor 1: PILKINGTON, Charles E
Sponsor 2: PEANEY?, Richard
Sponsor 3: PILKINGTON, Julia
Officiant 2: DOYLE, Ralph
Entry Number: 3002
Vol No: 0
Pg No: 245
Source: St. Johns Anglican Church Wynberg.
Info retrieved from National Archives of South Africa =
DEPOT KAB
SOURCE CSC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 2/6/1/302
SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 77 PART 1
DESCRIPTION MOTION. APPLICATION FOR PAYMENT OF THE INHERITANCES OF SHIRLEY M SOLOMON AND FRANK M SOLOMON FROM ESTATE LATE HENRY SOLOMON.
STARTING 1907 ENDING 1907The Henry mentioned is Henry Solomon b. 1816 St. Helena and part owner of Cape Argus. Henry was Frank's grandfather.
40. George William PILKINGTON, son of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born in 1879. He was a Fine Art Painter. He died in 1958 in St. James, Cape Town, South Africa.
41. Charles Arthur PILKINGTON, son of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born on 14 September 1881 in Port Nolloth Namaqualand, Nrth West Coast of S.Africa. He was christened on 9 October 1881 in St Andrews Church, Port Nolloth, Namaqualand, Nrth West Coast of S.Africa.
42. Ethel Mary PILKINGTON, daughter of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born on 18 February 1884 in Port Nolloth Namaqualand. She was christened on 13 April 1884 in St Andrews Church, Port Nolloth, Namaqualand
43. Henry Lionel Gordon PILKINGTON, son of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born in 1886 in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa. He was christened in 1886 in St Andrews Church, Port Nolloth, Namaqualand He died in 1968. He married Greeva PRICE.
Greeva PRICE was born in 1892 (approx.). She and Henry Lionel Gordon PILKINGTON had the following children:
+55 B PILKINGTON (1917?- )
+56 V PILKINGTON (1922?- )
44. Enid Isabel PILKINGTON, daughter of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born in 1889 in Port Nolloth Namaqualand. She was christened in 1889 in St Andrews Church, Port Nolloth, Namaqualand
45. Marjorie Doris PILKINGTON, daughter of Charles Arthur PILKINGTON and Julia Sophia SOLOMON, was born in 1893 in Port Nolloth Namaqualand. She was christened in 1893 in St Andrews Church, Port Nolloth, Namaqualand
Sixth Generation
47. Molly Graham DICK, daughter of James DICK and Rachel BROWN, married Mr. Earle.
This name is mentioned in the Brown Manuscripts held by Cape Town University Libraries.
48. Margaret Minnie SOLOMON, daughter of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche BUYSKES, was born in October 1908 in South Africa. She died in March 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. She married William Guy FAWCETT.
William Guy FAWCETT, son of Charles John FAWCETT (1859- ), was born on 19 November 1904 in Cape Town. He was christened on 11 February 1905 in St. Johns Anglican Church Wynberg. He died in 1947 in Cape Town.
Cape Town archives shows the following in the 1939 DirectorySurname: Fawcett,
First Names: W Guy
Address: Spinney Finsbury Avenue Newlands
Telephone Number 1: 6-4386
Source: 1939 Cape Telephone Directory.
49. Joan SOLOMON, daughter of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche
BUYSKES, was born "abt 1910" in South Africa. She married
James [Jimmy]
LAWRENCE and then married Dennis WATSON.
James [Jimmy] LAWRENCE and Joan SOLOMON had a child Yvonne Lawrence
50. Avice Viner SOLOMON, daughter of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche BUYSKES, was born in South Africa. She married Neville Alan WHILEY and were then divorced in 1945. She then married Eric BENNETTS. Avice died in Cape Town.
Neville Alan WHILEY and Avice Viner SOLOMON had a child, Shirley Whiley
Eric BENNETTS and Avice Viner SOLOMON had a child, Susan Bennetts, half sister to Shirley Whiley.
51. Alec Woodford SOLOMON, son of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche BUYSKES, was born in January 1920 (approx.) in South Africa. He was a Lieutenant, S.A. Navy & Accountant/Finance Administrator - SA Govt. in Cape Town. He was Church of England. He married Christine Maxwell DELANEY on 8 January 1946 in All Saints Church, Plumstead, Cape Town, South Africa. He died of Diabetes and Heart Disease on 11 October 1985 in Fishoek, Cape Prov. S.Africa. He was cremated in 1985 at Fishoek, Cape Prov. S.Africa.
Christine Maxwell DELANEY was born on 7 December 1922 in Rutherglen, Glasgow. She was a Comptometer Operator. She was Church of Scotland. She had 2 spouses. She was educated at Gallowflat Street School, Rutherglen. She emigrated from Rutherglen to Cape Town in 1945. On 16 July 1993 she married John Johnston in Croydon Registry Office, Croydon, Surrey, England. John Johnston died in November 1995 in Beckenham, Kent, England.
Christine Maxwell DELANEY and Alec Woodford SOLOMON had three children - Carol, Jane Ann and Alexia Patricia Solomon.
52. Shirley SOLOMON, daughter of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche BUYSKES, was born in Cape Town. She married Clive [Bunny] SIMPSON.
Clive [Bunny] SIMPSON and Shirley SOLOMON had two children, Lesley and Michael Simpson
53. Beth SOLOMON, daughter of Alec Viner Pilkington SOLOMON and Blanche BUYSKES, was born in Cape Town. She married Harry WOOD. She died "abt 2005" in Cape Town.
Harry WOOD was born in England. He appeared in the census. He was a Chief Electrician for Cape Town Council. He died in Cape Town. He and Beth SOLOMON had two children, Judy and David Wood.
54. Winifred Pilkington LEITH, daughter of Norman Campbell LEITH and Minnie Winifred SOLOMON, married Claude Edward WIMBLE. She then married Lewis Cavalier SHERWIN, thirdly, married Stewart Galloway CROMBIE.
Stewart Galloway CROMBIE, son of Alexander CROMBIE ( - ) and Isabella Hutcheson DAVIDSON ( - ), was born on 19 April 1896 in Ashbourne, Lenzie, Renfrewshire, Wester District of Cadder. He died in 1968 in Greytown, Natal, South Africa.
55. B PILKINGTON, child of Henry Lionel Gordon PILKINGTON and Greeva PRICE, was born in 1917 (approx.).
56. V PILKINGTON, child of Henry Lionel Gordon PILKINGTON and Greeva PRICE, was born in 1922 (approx.).