Category: Jottings

 . I have just spent the last 2 hours looking up glasshouse street and trying to find cigarette manufacturers. I started off with Morris Jacobs, Ezra son, knew he married Sophia Lazarus but up until a couple of hours that’s all I had. Found he dropped dead 1891, only 1 daughter I thought how boring! But….then found the daughter had...

 Rebecca Isaacs married Henry Jacobs her father was Judah Isaacs dec address 13 Harrow Alley Houndsditch 28.11.1841. Henry’s address was down as 27 Duke Street Aldgate. In the census they were both down as102 Petticoat Lane so perhaps they were visiting at the time of census. According to her death index she was born in 1818, she died ‘quite young’...

 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...

 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]

 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...

 I am researching at the moment the SUSMAN family, headed by Julius SUSMAN an auctioneer who lived at 368 Cold Harbour Lane, Brixton, London as an Auctioneer from about 1891 to his death in 1937. I worked in Brixton and Cold Harbour Lane had quite a reputation, Julius also had a shop in Railton Rd and I walked past that for 18 months on...

 Was looking through the NSM and found this, had anyone else spotted this, my hebrew is no good so I guess it says Jacob son of Leo Letson (I think) marries possibly Frances daughter of ???? glad to be corrected as I only googled it. Original below: NSM 083         1795    Jacob b. Ari Leib Letson married Frumat bat Baruch Halevi [Divorcee][Debbie Bozkurt] ...