Simon Barrow

London West India merchant, partner in Barrow & Lousada (sometimes given as Louzada), q.v.

1. 1841 census Simon Barrow Lansdown[e] Grove Bath aged 50 Independent with Jacob 30 Independent etc. 1851 census at George Street, Ryde age 64 magistrate, born London; 1861 census Simon Barrow aged 74 fundholder living with Rev John Simeon Barrow at Nelson House, Ryde. Simon Barrow late of Isle of Wight who died 30/12/1862 at Ryde, proved by Rev. John Simeon Barrow clerk son the sole executor. Effects under £3000; resworn August 1863 under £2000. 

2. Simon Barrow served as Mayor of Bath in 1837.

T71/857 St Ann claim no. 447 (Banks). The children's names taken from http://thepeerage.com/p26716.htm [accessed 09/08/2012] are not entirely consistent with the above, although the life-dates are; the entry also gives the Lansdown[e] Grove address in Bath (as well as Devonshire Square). There is significant detail on Simon Barrow as part of a wider website dedicated to the Barrow and Lousada families at http://www.barrow-lousada.org/simon%20barrow%202.htm [accessed 23/07/2015].

1. 1851 census online. 1861 census online. National Probate Calendar 1862.

2. John Bury, 'Simon Barrow (II)', Ryde Social History Group, http://www.rshg.org.uk/docs/3847-internalfile49.pdf [accessed 23/07/2015].