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    1871,  but  must  have  ceased  business  (and  died)  not
                                  long  thereafter.    It  was  very  much  a  family  concern,
                                  with Benjamin, his wife Elizabeth, and a “widow” – his
                                  sister-in-law  Sophia  –  all  listed  as  opticians  at  that
                                  address.    The  three  remaining  “opticians”  were  all  in
                                  their seventies by 1871, and do not appear in the 1881
                                  census.

                                   Elderly, but apparently still active: Solomons optical
                                            business partners in the 1871 census

                                  The “S” in “S&B Solomons” was presumably Sophia.
                                  Suter’s microscope could have been made many years
                                  before 1871, of course.  I cannot find the family in the
                                  1841  census:  Sophia  appears  in  the 1851  census  as a
                                  widow and lodger.  She, along with Benjamin, his first
                                  wife  “Mar”  (?Margaret),  and  his  daughters  Nina,

                                  Louise and Lucy, are all specified as “opticians”.

                                  This was a family “cottage industry”: as seen above, 6
                                  people, some as young as 10, joined the enterprise.  I
                                  have  not  discovered  when  Benjamin  moved  from

                                  Yorkshire  to  London-  perhaps  just  after  the  1841
                                  census,  since  his  youngest  child  was  10  years  old  in
                                  1851  -  but  the  “why”  seems  his  marriage  to  his  first
                                  wife, since she was born in Middlesex.

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