Sigmond Hoffnung was one of the original three Executors and Trustees of Henry Cohen’s estate. Sigmond married Henry’s grand-daughter Elizabeth, the daughter of Solomon Marks and Hannah (née Cohen), on 26 May 1858.[1]
[////Distill bio from ADB,
vol. 4 1851–1890, pp.408–09]
“Comparable to David Cohen and Company in size and turnover was the wholesale enterprise established in Sydney in 1852 by a young migrant from England, Polish-born Sigmond Hoffnung (1830–1904). Armed with a loan from an astute merchant back home who supplied wares attractive to colonists in the grip of gold fever, Hoffnung found that business thrived. His London-based backer and supplier entered into partnership, and the firm expanded steadily, its success assured by the availability to Australians with consumer goods nor readily available from domestic sources. In 1870 the firm moved into large new premises in Pitt Street which it occupied for many years, and in 1871 it filled a vacuum in the Queensland market be opening a branch in Brisbane. Hoffnungs was registered as a public company in 1902.
“Sigmond Hoffnung retired from active control of the firm in 1889 and returned to England . . .”
Rubenstein, Hilary L.
The Jews in Australia.
William Heinemann Australia, 1991.
pp.418–19.
Sigmond and Elizabeth had one child:
Solomon Sydney Benjamin (1862–____) was born[2] at Sydney on 13 September 1862. He married Violet, the eldest daughter of Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd and last Baronet, P.C., M.P.
References:
Biography of Sigmond Hoffnung in ADB, vol. 4 1851–1890, pp.408–09.
David, Lesli. “The Hoffnungs”, AJHS, Vol. 7, Pt 4, 1973, p.261.
Bergman, G.F.J. “Sigmond Hoffnung and the Firm of S. Hoffnung”, AJHS, Vol. 7, Pt 4, 1973, p.269.
