Annie Somers (nee Crozey/Crowsey) was born in Poland. We assume she came to England with her husband Reuben Somers. He was a Russian subject who came to this country in 1873 from Poland with capital of £20 and obtained employment as a tailor in London.
Their first three children were all born in Shoreditch, London. The family moved to Newport where three more children were born before moving to Bath by 1885 when the birth of another daughter was registered in July followed by another daughter in 1889. Reuben is listed in the 1889 Bath Directory as a master tailor living at 15 Kingston Road.
In the 1890s tragedy struck the family when Annie and Reuben's eldest son Hyman died aged 15 of tuberculosis followed four years later by their daughter Miriam aged 12 who also died of tuberculosis. They are both buried here.
In June 1902 Reuben moved to London. We assume the family went with him. It was not a successful venture. At the debtors court in 1904 it was reported that 'he purchased for £20, money given to him by a friend, the fixtures and fittings of a tailor's shop at 57 Goldhawk Rd. He traded there unsuccessfully until January 1903 when he closed the shop and has since been in employment in the trade'. By 1905 he is back in Bath working and living at 4 Pierrepoint Street. In 1910 Annie Somers advertises 'Apartments with or without board, strictly kosher at Washington House, Pierrepoint Street' in the Jewish Chronicle.
Annie died in 1915. A surviving great granddaughter reports that she is buried here but there is no headstone.
See Reuben Somers for full family history
Census records
1881
24
LLanarth Street
Newport
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1891
15
Kingston Road
Bath
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1901
15
Kingston Road
Walcot
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1911
4
Pierrepoint Street
Bath
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1911
4
Pierrepoint Street
Bath
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