Category: Miscellaneous

Thought I would share this with you, has anyone else had a strange coincidence? My Mother is Jewish, I am at present researching her father’s line part of which is the Jacobs. Ezra Jacobs who we believe is our 1st Cousin somewhat removed was a butcher and lived and worked for a number of years at 8 Bell Lane, Whitechapel....

Petticoat Lane Visiting tourists looking for the East End’s most famous market could be forgiven for being confused. In fact, you will sometimes see them outside Aldgate East station, or at the foot of Middlesex Street, scratching their heads as they pore over their A to Zs. Because, of course, there is no such street as Petticoat Lane – and...

The possibility of a Jewish connection was first mentioned twenty years ago when I first started looking into my family tree.As a child in the 50’s I was lucky enough to have met my maternal great grandparents, and 2 great uncles. They were called Braham and the story told to me as a child was that they had had a...

In January 2008 we received an exciting email from Debs saying that she had made contact with another of the Jacobs clan, and one with a wonderful story to tell. Rabbi Roderick Young is connected through Jacob Jacobs [Z065] and his son Henry (the butcher).