Category: Jottings

Don’t know if you remember me going on about the possibility of Geoffrey Swaebe being a distance cousin of ours, see times obituary:   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...

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 if he...

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...

This is an update on the original 2008 post Abraham Jacobs & Family Phil Kirby contacted me in May 2024 and suggested having a fresh look at Abraham and his family to see if we could make any progress on the original theory. Unfortunately the answer is still a ‘maybe’. However, the latest data and thoughts are shown below. Questions Arising...

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....

See 2024 update Abraham Jacobs & Family – Update 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...

From what I can gather Michael was born “Michael Jacobs”  and changed his name to “Alfred Michael Jacobs”…in the light of what I know now I wonder if the name change was to avoid past misdemeanours?  Anyway the couple arrived in Melbourne on 18 November 1873 so they must have married and then immediately set sail.  They had three (not...

I have been reading again the notes from your late cousin John that you sent to me last year. I noticed that it indicates that Samuel moved to Revell Street Hokitika in 1868 which happens to be the street mentioned in the trial of the gold pin in 1866. I also noticed in the same report that Samuel had gold mining connections...

From Gerry Newnham 1. Birth Certificate for Rosa SILVERSTONE, 4th Sept 1837: Presumed to be the sister of Ellen. Both Rosa and Ellen are with Jacob SILVERSTONE in Cincinnati in the 1850 US Census (see below). The Certificate shows Rosa’s mother to be Hannah HARRIS. Ellen was born too early for Civil Registration and there is, at present, no trace...

A selection of notes received from Eileen Bird in 2009 [Comments in square brackets by Dave Simpson]   Lewis Pesman took his grandfather Mordecai Capua’s surname [See Mordecai’s will]   A small amount of money was left to each of the children of Lewis.  The will mentions John Pesman, husband of his daughter Esther Capua. The house in St James Place...