Author: dave

Transcript of Abraham Jacob’s will added 01 June 2024See bottom 2 images. Dear all found this when I met Phil at the SOG forgot about it but it fell out of my suitcase when I was tidying up. Its a will by a Abraham Jacobs and it mentions a brother called David, and a slave boy he brought to England....

Has anyone got any idea what Judah would call himself when he left England? I doubt very much that he would use that name in New Zealand :-). I can find lots of Jacobs but isolating them is the problem. [June Keating]   I don’t know if Judah left England just can not find him, thought I found a Jack...

 Looking for a number of Jacobs, that appear to have vanished I have tried various Australian Sites, USA census but I haven’t tried New Zealand. Are there any BMD sites I can look up, I have a number of names but the 3 I am interested in at the moment are sons of Lewis Jacobs – glass dealer who was...

 If any of you want to track down Phoebe daughter of Henry Jacobs snr and confirm she actually is the same person who married Abraham Aarons that would be great. I have census data on the family from 1841 including Phoebe in 1881 living with her son in law Hess( his surname).[Phil Kirby] The Phoebe Jacobs daughter of Henry Jacobs married...

 I was interested that you should mention Papers Past. I have been doing some research over the last couple of weeks, using this web site and discovered an interesting article. If you type in Samuel and Lawrence Jacobs, the first item is a trial of three brothers Samuel, Lawrence and Sampson Jacobs accused of stealing a gold pin.Could this be...

 Although there seems to be increasing evidence that Collyer-Ferguson is correct that my Moses and Daniel are brothers of the Turnpike Boys, I’m not convinced since we don’t know where C-F (is this one person) got the information from.  I know Daniel’s father was Judah but I don’t know Moses’ father’s name.  Moses’ father (Mr. Levy) died before (I think)...

 I am sending you this link because I discovered yesterday at SOG the will summary of Abraham cohen de lara- the family are related to my Crawcour lines. Note the JACOBS name on this link. No idea if there is any relevance but you never know!http://shum.huji.ac.il/~dutchjew/genealog/abas/544.htm[Phil Kirby]

 I bought an old book the western synagogue through 2 centuries, although I would have loved to get my hands on the earlier written book by Cecil Roth which has more details about records and mentions Moses Jacobs of Soho, David Isaacs etc. But I think the only copies are in the museums…  Anyway looking at various names and I...

 If Henry Jacobs snr was a privileged member of the Gt Syn then is there a record of the death of Kitty Jacobs nee Moses? Has anyone checked for this?[Phil Kirby] I haven’t really looked at Henry Jacobs side do we know when she died or the dates between. I had looked at the buriel records on line but can...