IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ADELAINE SOMERS
DECEASED 19TH MAY 1963
AGED 80
Adelaide Somers was the daughter of Reuben and Annie (Crowsey) Somers.
Reuben was a Russian subject and in 1873 came to this country from Poland with capital of £20 and obtained employment as a tailor in London. His wife Annie (Crowsey) was also born in Poland and their first three children were all born in Shoreditch, London. They moved to Newport where Adelaide was born in 1880. Two more children were born there before the family moved to Bath where they were living in 1885 when the birth of another daughter was registered in July followed by another daughter in 1889.
As far as we know, Adelaide lived in Bath for most of her life and never married. The 1911 census records that she was a housekeeper to a dental surgeon living at 26 Gay Street. The Bath Directory for 1911 lists Francis H Woodward, Dental Surgeon, at this address.
We do not know any more about Adelaide's life until 1939 when she and her sister Clara, together with their elderly father Reuben are living with their eldest sister Mary (Willcox Jones) who ran a private hotel at 33 Henrietta Street from the mid 1920s.
Adelaide is recorded as single, occupation paid domestic duty. Her great niece reports that Adelaide continued to help run the hotel until Mary died in 1950 . Adelaide lived the last two years of her life in Tonbridge Kent and she died there in 1963. Her great niece arranged for the plaque commemorating her death to be moved to Bath in 2006.
See Reuben Somers for the full family life story.
Census records
1881
24
LLanarth Street
Newport
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
1891
15
Kingston Road
Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
London
Daughter
Tailoress
London
Daughter
Apprentice
Monmouth
Daughter
Scholar
Monmouth
Daughter
Scholar
Poland
Other refer DT
Apprentice
1901
15
Kingston Road
Walcot
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Monmouth
Daughter
Unknown
Monmouth
Daughter
Unknown
1911
26
Gay Street
Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Newport
Head
Housekeeper to dental surgeon
Associated addresses
33
Henrietta Street
Bath
Boarding House / Hotel runs by Mary Somers, now Mrs Willcox Jones.