Filename: Cohen, Henry (1790-1867) Last Printed: 22 July, 2006; 14:05 Last Saved: 22 July, 2006; 13:25 Henry Cohen (1790–1867) Henry Cohen Contents Editor’s note .........................................................................................................................................3 London, England..................................................................................................................................5 The Old Bailey .....................................................................................................................................6 To Botany Bay......................................................................................................................................7 Arrival at Sydney .................................................................................................................................8 Port Macquarie.....................................................................................................................................9 Return to Sydney................................................................................................................................25 The Children.......................................................................................................................................29 Nancy (Simmons)...........................................................................................................................29 Sophia (Cohen)...............................................................................................................................30 Hannah (Marks) .............................................................................................................................30 Samuel Henry.................................................................................................................................31 Edward Aaron.................................................................................................................................32 Philip ..............................................................................................................................................34 Joseph.............................................................................................................................................38 Caroline (Nathan)...........................................................................................................................40 Lewis..............................................................................................................................................41 William...........................................................................................................................................43 Frances (Solomon) .........................................................................................................................45 Jane (Levy).....................................................................................................................................46 Children-in-law ..................................................................................................................................47 Simmons, Joseph............................................................................................................................47 Cohen, Abraham.............................................................................................................................48 Levy, David Lawrence ...................................................................................................................51 Grand-children ...................................................................................................................................52 Cohen, Fredrick..............................................................................................................................52 Cohen, Henry Emanuel ..................................................................................................................53 Cohen, George................................................................................................................................54 Cohen, Nathan................................................................................................................................55 Marks, Jane (Jenny) Matilda..........................................................................................................58 Cohen, Benjamin (Bennie) Stanhope.............................................................................................58 Grand-children-in-law........................................................................................................................59 Benjamin, Benjamin.......................................................................................................................59 Blaubaum, Rev. Elias .....................................................................................................................61 Cohen, Montague ...........................................................................................................................65 Hart, Alfred David..........................................................................................................................66 Hoffnung, Sigmond........................................................................................................................67 Joseph, Solomon ............................................................................................................................67 Marks, Alexander ...........................................................................................................................68 Great-grand-children..........................................................................................................................69 Benjamin, Sophia (Zoë) .................................................................................................................69 Cohen, Harold Edward...................................................................................................................70 Cohen, Ida ......................................................................................................................................71 Cohen, Elma...................................................................................................................................71 Marks, Gladys ................................................................................................................................74 Other persons of interest ....................................................................................................................75 Innes, Archibald Clunes .................................................................................................................75 Frankel, Jacob ................................................................................................................................76 Simmons, James.............................................................................................................................77 Cohen, Samuel ...............................................................................................................................77 Levi, Lewis Wolfe ..........................................................................................................................78 2 Cohen, George Judah..................................................................................................................... 78 Cohen, Sir Samuel Sydney ............................................................................................................ 79 Appendices......................................................................................................................................... 81 When was Henry born?.................................................................................................................. 81 How many children?...................................................................................................................... 81 Edgware Road, Paddington, Middlesex (1790–1830)................................................................... 82 Old Bailey ‘Proceedings’............................................................................................................... 83 Probate documents....................................................................................................................... 110 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................ 116 Comments on other publications ................................................................................................. 120 Index ................................................................................................................................................ 125 Editor’s note I became interested in my ancestry in the late 1970s. I wondered how I came to be born in Sydney, Australia, rather than in some other part of the world.1 I was in possession of some items from my great-great-grandfather, Philip Cohen, and my father was aware of a ‘Lord [sic] Mayor of Mel- bourne’ and a ‘Supreme Court Judge’ somewhere in the family tree. The rest was a blank. No one before had apparently been interested in our genealogy—or, maybe they had but did not like what they found. Well, the skeleton is there, great-great-great-grandfather