Samuel Boss (c1782-1844) & Elizabeth Gee (c1786-1872)
Samuel, son of Joseph and Ann Boss, was baptised on 13 March 1782 at St Wilfrid, Wilford, Nottinghamshire.
Elizabeth, daughter of Josias and Elizabeth Gee, was baptised on 23 January 1786 at St Mary, Nottingham.
Samuel Boss married Elizabeth Gee on 1 September 1805 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
Samuel worked as a tailor and they lived in the parish of St Clement Danes, where their children were baptised.
- William Henry Boss was born on 7 September 1808 and baptised on 9 October.
- Frederick Barnard Boss was born on 7 December 1811 and baptised on 12 January the following year.
- Ann Boss was baptised on 3 March 1816. At this time the family were living at 20 Vue Street.
- Samuel was baptised on 30 April 1820. At this time the family were living at 41 Stanhope Street.
- Elizabeth Boss was baptised on 6 October 1822.
Samuel was insured with Sun Fire Group at 57 Frith Street 1829-1838 (in 1838 this included Samuel and William Boss).
In 1832, Frederick Boss aged 20, died at Rathern in Liecestershire and was buried at Wilford, in Nottingham.
On 3 August 1833, William Henry Boss married Sarah Anne Ward at St Martin’s-in-the Field.
The 1841 census listed Samuel Boss, a tailor, living at 57 Frith Street in the parish of St Anne in Soho along with his wife Elizabeth, daughters Ann and Elizabeth and son Samuel.
In 1842 Samuel Boss, a tailor, of Frith Street was listed as the register of bankrupts.
In 1843, their daughter Elizabeth married William Robert Warner, a seal engraver, at St Martin-in-fields.
The death of Samuel was recorded in the Nottingham Review on 23 February 1844: “on 16th inst at his residence, 57 Frith Street, Soho London deeply lamented, Mr Samuel Boss formerly of this town, aged 62”. The parish register of St Clement Danes, London, recorded his burial on 21 February.
The family continued to live at Frith Street and were still there when Ann Boss married James Weston Townroe at St Martin’s-in-the-Fields on 5 January 1849.
Samuel Boss junior died on 19 June 1850 at 19 Gerrard Street, Soho: “late of 57 Frith Street Soho-Square, Jewel Case Manufacturer”.
In the 1851 census Elizabeth was described as a “proprietor of a house” and was living with her daughter and son-in-law William Robert Warner and Elizabeth in Islington. At the time of the 1861 and 1871 census returns, she was still living with them first in Marylebone and then in Kensington. Elizabeth was described as of independent or private means.
Elizabeth died at 123 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, aged 82 on 19 April 1872 and was buried at All Soul’s cemetery.