Samuel Moss Solomon (c. 1769 – 13 May 1842) was an early Jewish settler in Australia, amongst whose descendants many achieved a degree of notability.
This list is not exhaustive but includes most family members likely to be found in Wikipedia and Australian newspapers.
1814) and had four sons: Moss Samuel, Emanuel, Vaiben and Phillip, and four daughters: Susan, Hannah, Sarah and Esther.
Two sons, Vaiben and Emanuel, fell foul of the law, and were transported to Sydney in 1818 on the Lady Castlereagh as convicts.
Fifteen years later Samuel Moss Solomon and his wife Esther and many of their family emigrated to Australia in the Enchantress, arriving in Sydney on 24 April 1833.
Their family included: Emanuel Solomon MLC (1800 – 3 October 1873) married fellow convict Mary Ann Wilson on 6 November 1826.
Their children included: Hannah Solomon (1801– ) married Benjamin Samuel Cohen (1791–1858); they never left England.
Vaiben and his family are listed in the subscriptions to the building of Sydney's first Synagogue (see the Circular to the Members of the Faith of Israel, 1839, in which Vaiben Solomon is listed on the committee for the building of a New Synagogue, built in 1844 in York Street).
[1] He was a dealer of Hindley Street, lived in Brighton, South Australia at least 1845–1853, later Melbourne, died in Cooktown, Queensland.
He had an import business in Adelaide in partnership (dissolved December 1857) with nephew Judah Moss Solomon (1818–1880) at the London end.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Solomon (14 June 1821 – 9 February 1898) married Michael Cashmore (7 March 1815 – 17 October 1886) in Sydney on 9 December 1840, survived wreck of the steamship PS Clonmel on 2 January 1841,[45] to become the first Jewish settlers of Victoria.