Lydia Solomon

Lydia Solomon was born in England about 1811. Her parents were Judah SOLOMON and Esther RUSSELL and she had about nine brothers and sisters.
Lydia married Henry Samuel BENJAMIN around 1829. They had a son Benjamin, and an infant daughter Esther, when they arrived in Hobart Town from London on Palamban in December 1832. They travelled with her mother and two younger sisters. Her father, uncle and two brothers were already settled in Van Diemen's Land.
In November 1834, Lydia and her husband sailed to Sydney on Gulnare. Their next son, Henry, was born in New South Wales, but about a year later, they returned to Hamilton in the Derwent Valley where two more sons were born.
In 1839 they moved to Hobart and a second daughter, Eve was born there in 1843.
Lydia's husband Henry died in 1852 and she remarried Lewis Cohen, a professor of dancing, in 1855. It seems likely that they moved to Melbourne after 1860, where her son Henry had settled.
Her eldest son married in London in 1865, her elder daughter was in Victoria in 1862 and her younger unmarried daughter died in Melbourne in 1863.
By 1871, her daughter Esther was also living in London with her family but the Cohens do not appear in that English census.
Lydia died in London in January 1880, at the home of her son Benjamin. She was 68 years old. Lewis was living there when the census was taken a year later.