Of the five sons, the eldest, James Edward Aldous (1855-1920), became a barrister he lived in London and married but had no children. Although he left this property to his widow for life, with the capital to be divided equally between his children on his death, the family seem to have agreed a different arrangement, as his widow lived on until 1913, and by 1893 we know that each of the five sons had received money from their father's estate. It was probably this partnership which enabled him to send two of his sons to Cambridge University and to leave at his death a personal estate of £35,000. By 1867, however, he had become a partner in the firm, which suggests that he was an exceptionally good salesman, whose loyalty the firm needed to reward. Nicholson, the London gin distillers (who are still in business), and was recorded in several documents as a commercial traveller. He is said to have broken all connection with his father after the death of his mother when he was sixteen, and he became a salesman for J. James' son by his first marriage, James Robert Aldous (1827-76), with whom the genealogy below begins, was thus born into pretty humble circumstances, but in his relatively short life he achieved a considerable reversal of the family fortunes. He seems later to have found work in the railway industry and was described as an engineer in the 1851 census, by which time he had married again and produced a second family. Jonathan's great-grandson, James Aldous (1802-68), moved to London, where he was working as a blacksmith by the 1820s, when he married Elizabeth Bugg (d. Their arms were recorded at the herald's visitation of 1664, but were subsequently respited, which probably implies a perceived decline in the family's social status, and Jonathan Aldous (1714-86) of Hoxne and Tannington was described simply as 'farmer'. William's great-grandson, Richard Aldous (1578-1656) settled at nearby Wingfield (Suffk), and his descendants were prosperous farmers who owned or leased properties in Wingfield, Hoxne and Stradbrooke through the 17th and 18th centuries: their social apogee was probably achieved when R ichard Aldous (1686-1751), rented Wingfield Castle from Sir Charles Turner in the early 18th century. c.1531) of Fressingfield (Suffk), in which village they were yeomen and minor gentry over several generations. The genealogy of the Aldous family can be traced continuously from William Adams (d.
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