My Gt Gt Uncles.. one, i think, was Samuel. They did very well int heir day but got too big at the wrong time. expanding into colchester too, before being found guilty of fraud, and being jailed for a while. the business was "taken over" by a competitor.
Some of that generation did well, Henrietta married Jewson and they built the Jewson building company, others, per my grandad, "fell of their horses" rather badly.
