Joseph Solomon

Born: 26 May 1776, Luddesdown, Kent, England
Christened: 9 Jun 1776, Addington, Surrey, England
Marriage (1): Ann Owen in 1792
Marriage (2): Elizabeth Lidwell
Died: Feb 1835, Shorne, Kent, England aged 58
Buried: 23 Feb 1835, Shorne, Kent, England

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bullet Birth Notes:

The original notes show him born in 1767 in Kent, England. I believe them to be incorrect as I could find no such record. They may be a transposition.

bullet Christening Notes:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Joseph&gsfn_x=NIC&gsln=Solomon&gsln_x=XO&msbdy=1776&msbdy_x=1&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&msbdp=1&cp=11&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=100643926&db=FS1EnglandBirthsandChristenings&indiv=1&ml_rpos=3

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20516906/person/5062262754?ssrc=&ml_rpos=1

bullet Burial Notes:

Per email from Peter Solomon dd Dec 2016.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=bivri_EnglandMarriages&h=1514687&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=8767

• General Comment. 26 Dec 2013 - I am not convinced about the veracity of his birth or his spouse. I could find no records of a Joseph Solomon born in 1767. I could also find no death records in 1835. I could also find no records of his spouse Ann Owen or her death in 1792.

• General Comment. Joseph Solomon, born 1776, and his wife Elizabeth (Lidwell), lived at Green Farm, Lower Shorne, Kent on the far side of the road between Gravesend and Rochester, about a mile distant from Shorne Village and Shorne Church. The farm consisted of 230 acres amd a lot of march lands..

It seems that on the land belonging to Green Farm there once was an old church, dedicated to St Giles (now demolished) of which old stones are still turned up from time to time. In order to get certain payment the Bishop of Rochester had to hold a service there every year on St Giles Day..

The house is a fine old dark red brick house, about eight windows upstairs, with attic windows above, and the same downstairs. In the garden at the back, on the back of the long thatched stables, cut in the bricks, the date 1817 and various initials of Solomons - W S , J H S etc/ On the wagon lodge is J Solomon, 1833
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/25799561/person/1937943594/mediax/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum

• General Comment. The Manor of Green (Merston)

Possession of the manor can be traced from the reign of Henry III (c1270). In the reign of Henry VIII (c1540) it was sold to George Brook, Lord Cobham. In the reign of Charles I it passed into the family estates of the Dukes of Richmond. The last Duke of Richmond died in 1672 leaving his sister his heir. Her second husband was Sir Joseph Williamson who bought the manor, now known as Green Farm, in 1695. It later passed into the possession of John, Earl of Darnley who was the owner in 1778. In 1493 Thomas Nange bequesthed ten acres of the parish of Merston to trustees for the distribution of Red and White herrings to the people of the district, for ever, in Lent.

Extracted from a History of Kent. Published 1778

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/25799561/person/1937943594/mediax/3?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum

• General Comment. MERSTON

In 774 AD spelt "Mersctun". In 1742 AD spelt "Merston".

The word derives from two Old English words "MERSE-TUN" meaning a village by a marsh..

Merston was a very small parish, about 150 acres, bounded by the Parish of Shorne on three sides and that of Higham on the east. The church which was dedicated to St Giles, was very small being about 45 feet long by 20 feet broad, and was situated almost on the direct line from Shorne Church to Higham Church, being about one mile from the former and one and a half miles from the latter. The village lay to the west of the church, the whole being enclosed with a deep ditch or entrenchment and occupying in all about three acres. .

About fifty yards south of this site there was a deep draw well. In 1778 the ruins of the church and the remains of the ditch and foundations of the village could be seen in a wood of some four or five acres, belonging to Green Farm and known as Chapel Wood. (This description in taken from the registers of the Bishop of Rochester)..

The village was never very populous and in the reign of Henry VI (c1450) seems to have had no inhabitants. In 1455 there being no parishioners and the living being only worth thirty shillings per year with no house for the parson, the Bishop of Rochester granted his licence to John Hedon, the Rector, that he should not be obliged to live in the parish for such time as there should be no parishioners, and that he need hold no services there except one a year on St Giles day. From then on the church was regarded as a chapel to that of Shorne until it fell into ruins in the 16th century..

Taken from the diary of Courtney Solomon
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/25799561/person/1937943594/mediax/2?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum

• Children. They had the following children:-
Joseph Haines Solomon (1804 - 1877)
Susanna Solomon (1806 - )
Thomas Joseph Solomon (1808 - 1873)
Elizabeth Solomon (1810 - )
Henry Solomon (1812 - )
William Solomon (1815 - 1872)
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/25799561/person/1937943594

Joseph married Ann Owen in 1792. (Ann Owen died in 1792.)

bullet Marriage Notes:

Joseph next married Elizabeth Lidwell, daughter of Thomas Haynes Lidwell and Susannah Tomlin. (Elizabeth Lidwell was born before 25 Dec 1779, christened on 25 Dec 1779 in Strood, Kent, England and died in Jan 1833 in Shorne, Kent, England.)

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