Category: Jottings

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...

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. I have just tried looking for it on the NA site but...

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...

My wife is descended from one of Edward Lawrence Levy’s uncles, Charles Lewis (they changed their name from Levy to Lewis), who was her GG Grandfather..   Edward Lawrence Levy was the son of Lawrence Levy who was a Sheriff’s Officer for Middlesex and also dabbled in the theatre – he owned the lease of the Victoria theatre at one...

I received an email from Georgina Cusack enquiring about a Blake Jacobs, unfortunately I cannot see a connection to our Jacobs tree but if anyone knows different then please let me know. – Dave Simpson Georgina has also submitted copies of two wills: Frederick Blake Jacobs and John Jacobs and a selection of certificates. These can be found in the ‘Sources...

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...