Grave 13
     

Kate Aaron

1827  – 1901

ךךא אךא


IN LOVING MEMORY OF
KATE AARON,
WIFE OF SAMUEL AARON,
DIED OCT. 9TH 1901
THIS RI 26TH 5662
AGED 75.
DEEPLY MOURNED


Kate was born in Dover in 1827 to Jacob Reuben, a clothier and Sarah Leah Lyon, both born in London. Kate was one of their four daughters who worked as assistants to their father. 

In 1853 Kate married Samuel Aaron in Dover. He was a jeweller living in Torquay, where he had a Goldsmiths and Jewellers shop with his two brothers. Kate moved to Torquay and they had three children: Louisa born in 1854, Rachel in 1854, and Simeon Reuben Aaron born in Newton Abbot in 1868. 

In May 1873  the family moved to Bath, when the Bath Chronicle advertised 'The shop no 6 Broad Street lately carried on by Helier and Lewis, is now opened by Aaron from Torquay'. Their daughter Louisa also advertised in June 1873  as a 'Professor of Piano Forte' and the paper carries many reports of her piano concerts at the Pump Room, commenting on her 'graceful expression and skillful execution'.

After her husband's death in 1881, Kate  took on the lease at 6 Broad Street for the yearly rent of £50 ( just over £6,000 today) advertising as a 'Dealer in Antique Plate'. 

By 1889, Kate and her two daughters have moved to 28a Broad Street now listed in Kelly's Directory of Bath as a 'Fancy Repository'. The freehold for the property was sold in 1892 and from this we know that Kate was a subtenant leasing the shop and part of the large dwelling house of ten rooms, a kitchen, two WCs and offices, from Mr Press who lived and  ran a confectionery business at the same address. 

Kate died at 9 Stall Street, Bath in 1901, the cause  given as 'apoplexy'. Her daughter Rachel Aaron was present at her death. Her death was notified in the Jewish Chronicle: 'At Bath on 9 October, Mrs Kate Aaron, widow of the late Mr Samuel Aaron, mother of S. R. Aaron and the Misses Aaron. Deeply mourned. God rest her soul. American papers please copy'.

Kate's husband Samuel, is buried at tombstone 69.
Louisa fell on hardtimes after her mother's death.  In the 1911 census she is recorded as an unmarried teacher of music living at St Giles workhouse in London. We think she died in 1925 in Wandsworth London.

Rachel is listed in the 1911 census as unmarried and a visitor in Ramsgate.  We are unable to trace any more records. 

Simeon  (Sydney) became a 'traveller, mock jewellery' married to Blanche, an Australian, and travelled frequently between New York, Cape Town and London where he lived. He died in 1933 in Ilford. 


Census records
  1841   5  Snargate Street   Dover
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  1851   5  Snargate Street   Dover
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  1861   14  Strand   Tomorham, Torquay, Devon
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  1871   5  Victoria Place   Tomorham, Torquay
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  1881   6  Broad St   Bath
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  1891   28a  Broad St   Bath
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  1901   9  Stall St   Bath
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Associated addresses
  1873-1889   6  Broad Street   Bath
  Kate Aaron: Dealer in Antique Plate
  1889-1897   28a  Broad St   Bath
  1889 Kelly’s Directory Bath: Kate Aaron, 28a Broad Street, Fancy Repository 1897 City and County Directory; Kate Aaron, 28a Broad Street. Start and end dates uncertain