NOTES

It would appear that things are far from straightforward with this family. I have found four of the above children's births registered under the surname SOLMAN (or SALMAN) - Walter born 1862, Arthur born 1865, Alice born 1866 and the male child born 1868 - and in each case their mother is given as Emma SOLMAN (SALMAN) formerly AINGE. However, I have found deaths of 5 of the children registered under the surname SOLMAN - Alice born 1858, George born c1860, Walter born 1862, Henry born c1867, and "Male" born 1868.

The children marked with an asterisk may or may not be children of George SOLMAN, though Emma Sarah and Eliza are almost certainly not. Their birth certificates show their parents as John AINGE, a painter in 1852 and commercial traveller in 1853, and Emma AINGE formerly AINGE. However, Emma Sarah's marriage certificate (1871), shows her father as Edward STAFFORD, traveller, deceased. Birth certificates for Clara and Alice in 1856 & 1858 show their parents as Frederick STAFFORD, greengrocer (master) and Emma STAFFORD formerly AINGE.

The death certificates of Alice (born 1858) and George (both of whom died at the Small Pox Hospital in Hampstead) show them respectively as daughter and son of George SOLMAN, horse keeper. Henry, who died at 23 Upper Chenies Mews, was likewise given as son of George SOLMAN, horse keeper.

There seem to have been two children named Alice alive at the the same time, but as I haven't found a death for the younger Alice, nor found her in the 1871 (or any later) census, I wonder if Henry may have been mistakenly registered at birth as Alice. Henry and the younger Alice seem to have been born at much the same time, and I have been unable to find a birth registration for Henry.

The likelihood for this family is that Emma AINGE (So5) had one or more previous relationships, one of which was with a man surnamed STAFFORD, and that the older children are from those relationships. However, as yet I haven't been able to find any marriages of an Emma AINGE to John AINGE, Frederick STAFFORD or anyone else, nor do I know if she actually married George SOLMAN.

Clara STAFFORD had a son, George Arthur STAFFORD, born 2 Apr 1893. His birth was registered by his mother and the certificate shows her as Clara STAFFORD formerly "SOLOMON"; his father is given as William George STAFFORD. I have so far been unable to find any evidence of a Clara SOLMAN (or SOLOMON etc) marrying a William George STAFFORD, or the death of a William George STAFFORD between 1892 and the 1901 census (at which time Clara was shown as a widow).