[1] John, who was born 13 years earlier in 1700 (who also became a grocer and served as the mayor of Carlisle in 1765), Jane in 1702, Isaac in 1703, Jacob in 1705, Thomas in 1716 and Mary in 1720.

[2] It's probable that father Isaac accumulated his wealth from a grocery business in Carlisle which led to three sons pursuing this line.

[5] At the age of 28, in 1764, Abram Newman, of Mount Bures in Essex, joined Monkhouse (who at this time was 51) and became a partner in the business.

The growth of the company is well documented in Owen Rutter's history of Davison Newman called At the three sugar loaves and crown.

[5] An obituary for Abram in 1799 read "He was one of the richest citizens of London, and a happy instance of the wonderful powers of accumulation by the steady pursuit of honourable industry.

"[6] The vast range of produce traded included almonds, chocolate, confectionery, coffee from Turkey and Jamaica, figs, ginger, mustard, nuts, pepper, prunes, rice, snuff, sugar, tea from China, tobacco and truffles.

[2] The company accounts, in the mid 18th century, show that in just nine months £53,000 (about £80 million in today's money) of goods, mostly spices, were being imported from John Goddard in Rotterdam.

[2] The Davison and Newman customers were not only located across the British Isles but the company regularly shipped to North America.

[7] The surviving eighteenth century company records ensure an unusually good insight into the daily transactions of the business.

[11] Monkhouse was a friend of Henry Laurens, an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina, who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War.

In November 1783 he "... had to rush back to Fenchurch Street because Mr Newman's brother-in law and business partner, Monkhouse Davison, was ill." An entry in May 1793 records his friend's death.

His will[17] included a list of the following properties: his main London home in Fenchurch Street, in Essex: Porter's at Rippleside, Essex and Gale Street in Barking, in Cumbria: Coledale Hall, Carlisle, Dalston Hall, Dalston, Hill Top and the Gill near Kendal.

Abram and Monkhouse were buried together[20] in All Hallows Staining but after the collapse of the crypt their monument[21] was to be seen in the church of St Olave Hart Street, London until it suffered bomb damage in May 1941[22] in the Second World War.