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GEORGE YOUNG SIMON 1842 - 1895 Extract from letter dated 21 November 1941 by his daughter Alice Ray Simon to her half-brother Charles George Simon, assisting him to compile family notes. "..... The Pater married again while we were at Brixton and quarrelled with his father some time after, so much so that he was turned out of his father's firm. ....... When Grandpapa Simon dismissed him for being absent in business hours - he had been very well off as the sole representative of the Champagne House (Moët & Chandon). As a young man he was allowed £200 a week and his trap and horse and manservant. He went everywhere, Ireland, etc., and was three years engaged to Miss Guinness. ....... and to Sir John Bennett's daughter Juliet (the Jewellers and clock people). I remember meeting them both at times. Juliet Bennett was my Aunt Julia's great friend, I believe old school-fellows. Pater was still well off when he married Mater, but from all I've heard it was very hard on her when he lost his position and got a wine-merchant's place in Vigo Street. .........,.Then we went to Antwerp when I was about 10, but always after I was much at my Grandmother Ray's, Granny Ray as she was affectionately called by all......" |