Author: dave

 Was looking at the Hymanson drawing Dave has done, Henry Jacobs (John/Jacob/Coppel) son was living at 271/2 Duke street as a butcher on the 1851 census. Henry married Rebecca Isaacs in November 1841, according to Jewish Gen he was at least there in Duke street  in 1846.   Now……theory time. And can someone check this through…..Phil?  On the GS Marriages there...

  Don’t know if you remember me going on about the possibility of Geoffrey Swaebe being a distance cousin of ours, see times obituary: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE6DE1E3EF937A15751C0A961958260  My eldery Cousin in Los Angelos works at the Library and he looked up or got some one to look up Geoffrey Swaebe parentage (never told him in advance who I wanted it to be!) and...

Updated by DS 2015/10/12 Now has it’s own article clarifying the issue – Click Here Think I may have only shared this with Phil until I was sure, just received marriage certificate in post to confirm fathers ID but there was only 1 Harry Braham Jacobs so was pretty sure.  Bear with me whilst I set the scene: Henry Jacobs...

 Note that the recent postings re names confirm that Letson could also be Litzen.  Is it odd that we may have found only one such family?  Does anyone have an idea why I can’t find birth records of Moses Levy’s children, or his marriage?  Although I think I found the second marriage of his mother Rosetta, to Henry Ellis, in...

 Take a look at entries P 4 no27 Israel b Isaac Levi 21 Kislev+10G Garden Court Petticoat Lane LITZIM? Jester 17 Dec Israel Isaacsentry 135Sarah wife of Leib( Jester?) RH Adar 11 BRR+1 Bethnal Green DEHN LITZIN[Phil Kirby]

 http://books.google.com/books?id=_dQP4nHgyVUC&pg=PP28&dq=jacob+jacobs&lr=&sig=nhmQ4tg9q6C8eYSeyao6KvqlpAU[Phil Kirby] Interesting as we think, David’s father was Jacob which may be why the family changed its name to Jacobs using the most hierarchal living member of their family. Maybe Jacob was still alive when Henry, Philip John took the name.  In the old bailey records David Jacobs had two other alias, one church and one barnett, its as...

 Can we agree that Abraham Jacobs appears to be related somehow to our Jacobs. If he is not Philips son then we need to consider what relation he is to our families. I think it is too coincidental for him not to be related given he was in Crown St and linked to Henry Jacobs- Philips son[Phil Kirby] I agree...

 Found this, what do you think NSM 085 Hannah bat Uri Shirga Feiss m Reuben shlomeh partir/porter  Ps if Partir means Porter than the Abraham mentioned as father Uri Feiss Partir maybe Philip Porter. [Debbie Bozkurt] you can prob. ignore this as realised the dates are all wrong to be Philips daughters marriage![Debbie Bozkurt]

  I thought I had evidence that Abraham was the father of Henry and John- I am sure I have seen it somewhere?[Phil Kirby] All I can find in the GS records is an Abraham Jacobs married to Alice Ellis father of Abraham is yissachar. In the 1851 census there is an Abraham Jacobs with Henry and John born in...

  I have been following the e mails on British Jewry- just to keep various points in mind. I have no way of knowing if there are links between the Joseph line and that of Dr Anthony Joseph who has distant links to the Crawcour lines and Pat Coppel. Just worth remembering- also I cannot remember all the Joseph names but  my Benjamin Hart line...