29 Cornmarket Street (Site of)
29 Cornmarket used to be attached to the north side of St Michael’s Church.
On 10 October 1840 the embroiderer & haberdasher John Rose announced in Jackson's Oxford Journal that his show room for “Berlin and British needlework, patterns &c”, was now open here. The 1841 census shows John Rose living here with his son Francis (6), plus his lodger and his servant. By 1850 the shop was run by Elizabeth Rose, and on 9 April 1859 she announced in Jackson's Oxford Journal that after 28 years here she was moving to 10 Broad Street.
The optician & silversmith Lewis (or Levi) Solomon announced in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 27 December 1862 that he had moved his shop here to No. 29. When he went bankrupt in 1887 the Official Receiver said that he had not kept accounts and could only write (and that but slightly) in Hebrew characters, and had loaned £500 to his son Joseph. The case was discharged in November 1887.
This shop at No. 29 was demolished in 1904 when the shop next door on the left at No. 30 was rebuilt, and it was left as free space.
For leases granted by Oxford City Council between 1581 and 1787 for 29, 30, 31, & 32 Cornmarket Street, see H. E. Salter, Oxford City Properties, pp. 246–248.
Occupants of the former 29 Cornmarket Street listed in directories and censuses |
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1831–1859
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John Rose, Haberdasher (to 1842): name of his shop was then the Golden Ball John Rose, Organ builder and Elizabeth Rose, Berlin depository (1846) Elizabeth Rose, Haberdasher (1850); Mercer and Berlin & fancy wool warehouse (1852) |
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1862–1893 |
Lewis Solomon, Tobacconist Lewis Solomon, Jeweller & tobacconist, and fancy bazaar L. Solomon, Jeweller & tobacconist (also at 29½) (1880–1893) |
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1890 |
Arthur Edmund Mayo, Nurseryman & florist |
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1899–1904 |
William Howe Nurse, Manufacturing furrier (also at 29½) |
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1904 |
DEMOLISHED: Number not used after this date |
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The former house at 29 Cornmarket Street in the censuses
1841
John Rose (35), a haberdasher, lived here over his shop with Francis Rose (6) and John Plumer (25), a clergyman. They had one female servant. It appears that his wife and older son were away on census night.
1851
Elizabeth Rose (49), a deaf-and dumb widow running a Berlin warehouse here, lived over her shop with her children Frederic (19), who was an apprentice cabinet maker, Francis (16), and Emma (6). They had one house servant.
1861
Lewis Solomon (32), a jeweller and watchmaker born in Cracow and described as being a naturalized British subject, lived here with his London-born wife Diana (30) and their four children, all born in Oxford: Matilda (8), Lewis (8), Joseph (5), and Harriett (3). They had one servant.
1871
Lewis Solomon (45), jeweller & tobacconist, still lived here over his shop with his wife Dinah (42) and their children Matilda (19), Harriet (13), Leah (8), Hester (7), Charles (5), and Albert (2). They had one servant.
1881
Lewis Solomon (55), jeweller and tobacconist, was now listed as living at No. 29½ with his wife Dinah and his children Harriett (22), and Leah (18), Esther (16), and Leopold (7). They had one servant.
1891
Lewis Solomon (65), described a widowed tobacconist, still lived here with his daughter Liddie (26) and a general servant.
1901
Uninhabited but in occupation: probably part of the furrier's shop below.