EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911
| 1 South Street, Epsom (Controversy Cottages) |
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| Current Occupier (2013) | Residential |
| Occupiers in 1911 | Swinson Brothers Tailors |
| Details of 1911 Proprietors | The elderly James, William and Samuel Swinson, all born in Hammersmith c.1837, 1844 and 1840 respectively, were living in three rooms over the shop in 1911. Unsurprisingly their father, James, had also been a tailor, in Hammersmith.
In 1871 James was in lodgings and William was tailoring in Hammersmith, living with another brother, Charles, who was an upholsterer. Samuel was tailoring at another establishment, but was married (Elizabeth, nee Price, born c.1846, married 1869) with a son, James, aged one. By 1881 James Senior and William had set up shop as outfitters and hosiers in Epsom High Street. Samuel was still in Hammersmith, but by 1911 he had joined his brothers in Epsom, although Mrs Swinson was still alive and living in Fulham with three of her four surviving children. Samuel died in 1920, then back in Fulham district, followed by Elizabeth in 1927. William died in 1915 and James in 1917, both still in Epsom. Samuel’s children (all born Hammersmith) – James Thomas (or vice versa) c.1870-1919, married Kate Blanche Buchanan Atkinson; Samuel John (or vice versa) 1872-1904; Louisa or Louise Elizabeth (1874); Edith Annie (or vice versa) 1876-1938, unmarried; George William (or vice versa) 1879. |
Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom South Street