A Jacobs Family History
David Jacobs

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Name David Jacobs Birth 27 Feb 1893 Hampstead, London, England [1, 2]
Address: 16 Holtham(?) Road - Recorded as Jeffries
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Gender Male Census 31 Mar 1901 Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England [3]
Age: 32y Address: 14 Hartington Road Miscellaneous 13 Nov 1901 [4] - Was mentioned in the will of David Jacobs (1826-1903)
Census 19 Jun 1921 Smethwick, Staffordshire, England [5]
Age: 28y 4m Address: 83 Oxford Road - Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Motor Cycle Engine Fitter
Number of Children (under 16) by age:- (1) 2
No sign of daughter, Joan, despite being counted
Census 29 Sep 1939 Coventry, England [6]
Age: 46y Address: 15 Watercall Avenue - Born: 27/02/1893
Sales & Works Manager (Gas Meter Trade)
ARP Warden
Ancestor Count 19 Descendant Count 3 Occupation 29 Sep 1939 Coventry, England Sales & Works Manager Age: 46y Reference Number BR 1805a Reference Number BR-J _UID FAC550ED6516421E9A0011D951E4180DB584 Person ID I6423 Jacobs Last Modified 8 Apr 2025
Father Louis David Jacobs, b. 27 Nov 1857, Dublin, Ireland d. 24 Jul 1932, Balham, Surrey, England
(Age 74 years)
Mother Amy Esther Hill, b. 21 Jan 1868, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 29 May 1959, London, England
(Age 91 years)
Marriage Between Oct 1894 and Dec 1894 Hampstead, London, England [7]
Family ID F2091 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lily Phillips, b. 6 Mar 1893, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England Marriage Between Apr 1918 and Jun 1918 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England [8]
Children 1. Living 2. Living Family ID F2105 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2021
- Recorded as Jeffries
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Notes - Jacobs, Louis David - Hill, Amy
There was some uncertainty about the birth registrations for these children at this time [Jan 2021]
In the 1911 census [1911 Census - RG14 PN2360 RG78PN78B RD26 SD5 ED75 SN239] My personal belief is that Louis David uses the pseudonym Jefferies for the purpose of registering their births.
they say that they have had 5 children; 4 still living; 1 dead
2 of the living one's (Stanley Lewis Jacobs and Juliet Amelia Jacobs) are with them.?
We know of 2 other sons (Arthur Jacobs and David Jacobs) from David's will (Clause 35) - Stanley is also mentioned as is Juliet Amelia?
That leaves us with one unknown child.?
David & Amy also say that they have been married for 22 years, which we know is a lie because they got married in 1894. But it would be socially acceptable to bend the rules.??
My next step was to try and find the births of the children.
Juliet Amelia was easy JAS 1898 Toxteth Park 8B 173 [Mother's maiden name = Hill] - also Louis & Amy were married by this time.?
It is with the others that we start running into either a brick wall or lies [Jacobs telling lies? Never been heard of!]?
We know from the census that all 5 children must have been born before 1911.
We know that the four named children must have been born before David Jacobs wrote his will in 1901
Based on his age in the 1911 census I went looking for Stanley Lewis???? c. 1891 Liverpool?
Then the other brothers:
Arthur
David
Unknown?
No suitable results were found.
Before this, I looked at the 1891 census and found Amy living with her parents in Everton [1901 Census - RG 13 3439? F67 P18]
What struck me with this census was that there were three children within expected age ranges for the age of her parents, but there were also 2 others that were a lot younger.
Arthur H Hill (age 5)? and Louis A Hill (age 1) - I wouldn't normally have expected Louis as a forename name for a Christian family, but that is obviously not definite.?
Now one thing I have come across quite often, especially on the Simpson side of the family, is that an unmarried daughter has had a child and it is passed off as her mother's.?
Looking in the GRO the following were found:?
Stanley Louis Jefferies??? Q3 1890, Liverpool - Mother's maiden name Hill
Arthur Henry Jefferies??? Q3 1891, Liverpool - Mother's maiden name Hill
David Jefferies ????????????????? Q2 1893, Liverpool - Mother's maiden name Hill
Sydney Edgar Jefferies??? Q3 1895, Hampstead - Mother's maiden name Hill - Died: Q3 1895, Hampstead?
Now 3 of these forenames fit with known forenames of the ones we are looking for, and would be roughly in the expected time period.
On the same principle, Sydney Edgar would fit with being the child that died.?
Karen Gwinnett ordered one of the birth certificates, David 1893, to see if it helped at all.
Bingo! It fitted all the criteria (apart from Jacobs).
I have now added the children's BMD entries.
- Jacobs, Louis David - Hill, Amy
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Sources - [S3484] Birth Cert - Jacobs, David (1893), 23 Jan 2021.
- [S3242] BMD - Birth Index, 23 Jan 2021, AMJ 1893 Hampstead 1A 632.
GRO Checked - [S3466] 1901 Census - RG 13 3439 F67 P18, 1 Jan 2020.
- [S3452] Will - Jacobs, David (1826-1903), 13 Jan 2021.
- [S3904] 1921 Census RG15-13919-0179 - Jacobs, David (1893), 29 Mar 2023.
- [S4341] 1939 Nat Reg RG 101-5663A-024-4 - Jacobs, David, 17 Feb 2022.
- [S60] BMD - Marriage Index, 16 Jan 2021, OND 1894 Hampstead 1A 1285.
- [S60] BMD - Marriage Index, 19 Jan 2021, AMJ 1918 Marlborough 5a 163.
- [S3484] Birth Cert - Jacobs, David (1893), 23 Jan 2021.