Category: Miscellaneous

In August 2025 I was contacted by David Aaron to see if I could confirm that he was linked to the Jacobs tree. Because of the distance between the Aaron family and the Jacobs this took a lot of working out. David had given me a good deal of information to start the connection. It turned out that the link...

Phil Kirby contacted me in June 2023 and pointed out that there were a number of entries for people in the Jacobs tree being admitted to Bethlem and other institutions. Phil encouraged me to assemble some information on family members who were patients of the various institutions. Firstly, we need to remember that what was considered a mental issue in...

Starting with our oldest confirmed ancestor, David Jacobs, the Jacobs have had regular contact with the law, either civil or criminal. Their main court involvement has been for bankruptcy although there have been several much more serious brushes with the law.

Rebekah Levy During his research Gerry Newnham came across the will of Rebekah Levy and obtained a copy on the off-chance that she may be related. Unfortunately at this time (2 July 2011) we have not made a connection but the base information is here just in case. From Phil Kirby (20/06/2011) I have been in contact with Gaby Laws...

UPDATES PAGE 22 June 2016 Following more attempts at hacking moved away from Joomla to WordPress Changed the server set-up to incorporate extra security. 16 November 2015 Long while since I put out an update Updated to Joomla 3.4 (earlier in 2015) Moved domain name jacobstree.co.uk to main hosting site Moved files to their own domain at current host –...

Debbie Bozkurt has done some sterling work writing up biographies of the various branches of the Jacobs tree. The links on this page will take you to another page which contains a brief  family tree and a pdf file containing the biography. Debbie has asked me to point out that these documents are ‘works in progress’ and not intended to...

London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695 London Record Society (1966) An index of London inhabitants within the city walls in 1695. Based on assessments for 80 parishes made under the Act of 6 & 7 Wm. and Mary, c. 6, and information from other sources for a further 17 parishes. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=31 The following entries were found by Eileen Bird. At...