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>-r THE JEWISH VICTORIAN Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1871-1880 Dedicated to the memory of my mother, Julia, who had her own talents THE JEWISH VICTORIAN Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1871-1880 transcribed and edited by Doreen Berger Bobef Boyd t PUBLICATIONS Published by Robert Boyd Publications 260 Colwell Drive 0X8 7LW Witney, Oxfordshire First published 1999 © Copyright Doreen Berger and Robert BoydPublications ISBN 1 899536 38 8 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior approval of the author and the publisher. Printed and bound at the Alden Press, Oxford Explanation All entries are from the Jewish Chronicle unless followed by (JR) or (JW), (Jewish Record) or (Jewish World). I have edited the entries. In cases where information appears in more than one newspaper, I have selected the newspaper that gives, in my opinion, the more useful information. A subject will be listed more than once, if the given information does not prove to my satisfaction there is only one person with the same name. Thus, in some cases, because there is a small doubt, a subject will be listed more than once. Minors are listed under their parent's name, unless under exceptional circumstances, or if the possibility exists, in the case of a male subject, that he could have been married. In the case of marriages, officiating ministers are only mentioned where the marriage did not take place in a synagogue. The reason for inclusion is that the names of the ministers give clues as to which synagogue the parties were connected to. The honour of the Chief Rabbi officiating was usual, and had no particular significance, other than the respectability of the parties involved. There are mistakes in the Jewish newspapers. In the case of obvious mistakes, entries are underlined. It should be borne in mind that in some cases, the letter "I" is incorrect and should be "J". This is because of the lack of clarity of the news print in those times. When the date appears after an insertion, such as 14.2.1872, this is the date of the newspaper entry. If the date is expressed as 14 February, 1872, this is as printed in the newspaper. When an item appears more than one calendar month from the date of the event, I have inserted the date of the newspaper entry at the end of the item. I have taken the liberty of putting all Rothschild entries under the letter "R", whether the prefix "von" or "de" is more applicable. If all information on a subject's relative is in the given text, that relative is not listed in subject's genealogy. All genealogies are crossreferenced. If the subject is female, the genealogy is listed in the female line first. If male, the genealogy is listed in the male line first. The information is not analysed by me in any way, but should become the subject of further research by interested parties. Therefore, for example, although I do know there was a fourth brother Rothschild, who had died before the period covered by this reference book, as there is no mention of him in the newspaper text, I am unable to mention him. Finally, I would add this book was and is a labour of love and I consider it a privilege to have been able to undertake it. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Public Library http://www.archive.org/details/jewishvictoriangOOberg 1 Acknowledgements It was Dr. Gerry Black who suggested that I put my newspaper records, gleaned while researching my husband, David's, very anglicised maternal family, onto a card index. He was looking through my records, because I was sure that I was able to help him with the marriage of Ada Davis to Samuel Lewis, Victorian philanthropist, which he had been unable to find. The reason for this difficulty was that the happy couple had married in Dublin, and, indeed, I was able to assist with the Jewish newspaper insertion. This suggestion took place at the end of 1987, but what is a few years in the course of genealogy. My difficulty had been that my husband's family had put many notices in the Jewish Chronicle in the last century. Each time I looked at a family marriage, there was a new maternal family to investigate, and I had missed that family surname. I am sure Dr. Black meant index the family names only. However, I enjoyed indexing so much, I decided I would index all the entries, and that is what I did. I concentrated on the eighteen seventies, as this seemed to me to be a middle period in Anglo-Jewish history, when the number of entries were increasing rapidly. Being fascinated by the intricacies of the family relationships of Anglo-Jewry, I also crossreferenced the entries. Thus, by the time The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain came into existence in 1992, had amassed a large card index, containing the births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish community. It was at the inaugural meeting of the Society, that I felt I had to do something sensible with my records. I considered the best way to make the information available was to publish it as a reference book. About this time, I discovered two other Jewish newspapers within the period. These were the Jewish Record, which stopped publishing in 1871, and the Jewish World, which commenced in 1873. So, of course, I had to index these as well. Came the happy day that I had finished. But I felt dissatisfied. I realised the reason was that I had not included the obituaries. While including the obituaries, I thought I might as well put in the stories regarding individuals from inside the pages of the newspapers. This was the most interesting and challenging work of all, and I became fascinated by the stories I put together as a result. Finally, with a sigh of relief I conceded I had finished the decade. I then put my head down to type my card index up as a reference book. Realising the modern way was on disc, but not being computer literate, I compromised by buying a wordprocessing typewriter. I was at last in possession of eleven discs, containing the records of the Anglo-Jewish population in the eighteen seventies. All I now had to do was to find a publisher. Fortunately for me, Mr. Robert Boyd had the confidence in myself and my book to work with me towards a finished publication. With his help, I was able to transfer the discs into a specialised computer programme. Without his help, this book may never have seen the light of day. Acknowledgements I would like to give a special thank you to all those who helped me, and put up with my doubts and fears. Especially, I would like to thank Dr. Gerry Black and Robert Boyd; George Anticoni and Dr. Saul Issroff of The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain for their encouragement; Eric Glater and Malcolm Kayser for their technical support; Andrew Gasson, and Tony Gee, historians and authors; Meir Persoff for his advice; Barbara Brown, Judith Joseph, David Moradoff Henry Roche, Joe Ross and June Stein for their assistance; the late Isobel Mordy, , my mentor, and the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser, genealogists both; The Newspaper Library, where my research was undertaken, and who obtained microfilm from New York when I found two years of the Jewish World were missing from their archives; The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain; The Jewish Historical Society and The Guild of Jewish Journalists. Most importantly, I would like to thank my husband, David, without whom this work would never have been undertaken or completed.
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