Dear All, Before I send for what may or may not be the correct death certificate for my gggg-grandmother, does any one know anything about the Hannah Levy (1815-1865), wife of Aaron Levy, whose tombstone is in the old Maiden Lane Synagogue Cemetery? Many thanks- Deborah ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:06:54 +0100 > From: sherry.landa@wanadoo.fr > To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] PROFESSIONAL GENEALOGISTS > > Try the National Archives site, or any of the London library/archives such > as LMA because they should all have lists of reputable people. If you get > really stuck the Beth Din might advise. > > Good luck (and hope you have shallow pockets and long arms ;-)) > > Sherry > > > > Can anyone on the List tell me where I might find a professional > Genealogist in London who specialises in Jewish records dating back to the > 1700s. > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008

I was given permission to forward this email - what is of interest to BJers is the research aid on the link. "The Israel Genealogical Society has just posted an index of the publication Lakarov V'larahok, which appeared between 1945 and 1947. The publication contains hundreds of lists of Holocaust survivors. The index, which covers the 73 issues of the publication, is not an index of names but is a listing of articles and places where Holocaust survivors were located. To get a better understanding of what it contains, see the Avotaynu article as it provides a detailed description with examples. At some future date, Lakarov V'larahok will be scanned making the index a useful tool in navigating the publication. To view the index and a reprint of the article on Lakarov V'larahok that appeared in Avotaynu vol. XIV, No. 2 Summer 1998 go to the IGS website http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/Research/Aides.html On 30 April the IGS-Negev Branch will devote its meeting to a lecture and discussion of Lakarov V'larahok. You are all cordially invited to attend." Regards and shabbat shalom Angie Searching: RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Required: person with patience, who can support your webmaster in trying to sort the website out. Needs knowledge of Windows Vista and Front Page (and an idea of a solution to the incompatibility of these two). Needs a sense of humour, the ability to explain in words of one syllable and an altruistic nature (as this is voluntary as with all thing B-J) Interested parties please email PRIVATELY to me on sherry.landa@wanadoo.fror sherry@slanda.fsnet.co.uk Thanks in advance for all the helpful people I just KNOW are going to email me! Sherry

Try the National Archives site, or any of the London library/archives such as LMA because they should all have lists of reputable people. If you get really stuck the Beth Din might advise. Good luck (and hope you have shallow pockets and long arms ;-)) Sherry Can anyone on the List tell me where I might find a professional Genealogist in London who specialises in Jewish records dating back to the 1700s.

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Dear Listers Lottie Adelina Preston b1872 daughter of Anne De Lara ( parents Sarah Abigail Cohen Crawcour and David Laurent de Lara) and George Matthew Tilbury ( known as Preston) became very well known as a concert pianist under the name of Adelina de Lara. My Crawcour line was also linked to Simha Cohen de Lara c 1804- 79( father Abraham Cohen de Lara) and her marriage to David Laurent de Lara c1806-76. Adelina de Lara in her autobiography 'Finale' talks about David Laurent de Lara who 'married my maternal grandmother , a Polish Jewess of the name of Cracour, that of an important Polish military family who lived in Kracow, in the part of Poland then under Austrian rule.' This statement about such a Jewish military family appears at first face to be unlikely because Samuel Crawcour ( from Kracow) the progenitor of the line ( my 5x great grandfather) was an interant Jewish apothecary/dentist who arrived in England circa 1760s as a young man in his 20s ( b 1748-1816). However, we know from research that the Jews in Poland did form military units at least from the 1500s if not much earlier including having officers serving with Bonaparte such as Colonel Jozef Aronwicz and Berek and Josef Joselewicz. Can any listers shed further light on the extent to which Jews in Poland or the Austrian Empire held important military commissions. Dr Phillip Kirby Norfolk England

I suppose it would have been nice if I had included the 1881 census data I mentioned: 1881: Name: Sarah Lazarus Age: 12 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1869 Relation: Daughter Father's Name: Isaac Mother's Name: Easter Gender: Female Where born: Whitechapel Civil Parish: Spitalfields County/Island: London Country: England Street address: Wentworth St 11 Wentworth Court Education: Employment status: Registration district: Whitechapel Sub-registration district: Spitalfields ED, institution, or vessel: 13 Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Easter Lazarus 29 Isaac Lazarus 37 Sarah Lazarus 12 Hannah Levy 22 Any takers???? Thanks, Luana Hi list, I have now found what I think to be Sarah LAZARUS in the 1881 census as well. Her mother is listed as Easter, rather than Esther....and her mother is married here, so this is a possible father for Sarah now...as Isaac LAZARUS. And to boot, there is still a LEVY connection. Although Hannah LEVY is listed as a servant, I still think this is significant. I have found other census' where someone is listed as a servant in the H/H, but actually turned out to be family related. Any possible connection, please reply. Luana Hi, Looking for those connected to or interested in the following couple: Moss (Moses?) JACOBS married Sarah LAZARUS in 1893 in Mile End: http://www.freebmd.org.uk Surname First name(s) District Vol Page Marriages Jun 1893 (>99%) Decker Amelia Mile End 1c 813 Jacobs Moses Mile End 1c 813 Lazarus Sarah Mile End 1c 813 Sesenwine Hyman Morris Mile End 1c 813 Moss was b. abt 1875 in London, to Isaac JACOBS & Esther DAVIS (both presumably b. in Poland and immigrated to England sometime prior to 1855). I don't know much abt. Sarah other than her mother was Esther LAZARUS (maiden unknown) as shown in the 1891 & 1901 census. 1901 census for Moss & Sarah (LAZARUS) JACOBS which shows mother-in-law Esther LAZARUS in the h/h: Name: Moss Jacobs Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: St George in The East, London, England Civil Parish: St Botolph Without Aldgate Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph without Aldgate County/Island: London Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: Whitechapel Sub-registration district: Goodmans Fields ED, institution, or vessel: 15 Household schedule number: 28 Household Members: Name Age Moss Jacobs 31 Fruit Porter b. St George East Sarah Jacobs 31 b. Shadwell Isaac Jacobs 8 b. St George East Abraham Jacobs 6 b. City Esther Jacobs 2 b. Whitechapel Lizzie Jacobs 1 month b. Whitechapel Esther Lazarus 49 (M-I-L) Second Hand Tailoress b. Regents Park I believe this is Sarah LAZARUS in the 1891 census prior to her marriage to JACOBS in 1893, with her mother Esther and they are in the LEVY h/h: Name: Sarah Lazarus Age: 21 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Niece Gender: Female Where born: Middlesex, London, England Civil Parish: St James Dukes Place Ecclesiastical parish: St James Dukes Place Town: London City County/Island: London Country: England Street address: 29 Duke St Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: London City Sub-registration district: Broad Street ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Household Members: Name Age Salomon Levy 46 Fanny Levy 41 Samuel Levy 20 Sarah Levy 16 Michael Levy 14 Esther Lazarus 40 (Sister-In-Law) Tailoress b. London, Middlesex Sarah Lazarus 21 (Niece) b. London, Middlesex Elizabeth Pitt 40 Thanks to http://www.jgsgb.org.uk, I believe this to be Moss JACOBS date of death & place of burial (note mourned by Sarah JACOBS) & the age fits for Moss: Cemetery Plot Location Record Source Edmonton Cemetery Q119 Tombstones at Edmonton Surname Given Names(s) Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Residence or Death JACOBS Moss Date of Death English Date of Death Hebrew Age at Death Date of Burial Hebrew Name 25-Dec-1960 86 Spouses Name Mothers Name Fathers Name Comments Associated Community on the JCR-UK Site Mourned by: JACOBS Sarah London Community Any interest?...please contact me on list or personally. Many thanks, Luana

Hi list, I have now found what I think to be Sarah LAZARUS in the 1881 census as well. Her mother is listed as Easter, rather than Esther....and her mother is married here, so this is a possible father for Sarah now...as Isaac LAZARUS. And to boot, there is still a LEVY connection. Although Hannah LEVY is listed as a servant, I still think this is significant. I have found other census' where someone is listed as a servant in the H/H, but actually turned out to be family related. Any possible connection, please reply. Luana Hi, Looking for those connected to or interested in the following couple: Moss (Moses?) JACOBS married Sarah LAZARUS in 1893 in Mile End: http://www.freebmd.org.uk Surname First name(s) District Vol Page Marriages Jun 1893 (>99%) Decker Amelia Mile End 1c 813 Jacobs Moses Mile End 1c 813 Lazarus Sarah Mile End 1c 813 Sesenwine Hyman Morris Mile End 1c 813 Moss was b. abt 1875 in London, to Isaac JACOBS & Esther DAVIS (both presumably b. in Poland and immigrated to England sometime prior to 1855). I don't know much abt. Sarah other than her mother was Esther LAZARUS (maiden unknown) as shown in the 1891 & 1901 census. 1901 census for Moss & Sarah (LAZARUS) JACOBS which shows mother-in-law Esther LAZARUS in the h/h: Name: Moss Jacobs Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: St George in The East, London, England Civil Parish: St Botolph Without Aldgate Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph without Aldgate County/Island: London Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: Whitechapel Sub-registration district: Goodmans Fields ED, institution, or vessel: 15 Household schedule number: 28 Household Members: Name Age Moss Jacobs 31 Fruit Porter b. St George East Sarah Jacobs 31 b. Shadwell Isaac Jacobs 8 b. St George East Abraham Jacobs 6 b. City Esther Jacobs 2 b. Whitechapel Lizzie Jacobs 1 month b. Whitechapel Esther Lazarus 49 (M-I-L) Second Hand Tailoress b. Regents Park I believe this is Sarah LAZARUS in the 1891 census prior to her marriage to JACOBS in 1893, with her mother Esther and they are in the LEVY h/h: Name: Sarah Lazarus Age: 21 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Niece Gender: Female Where born: Middlesex, London, England Civil Parish: St James Dukes Place Ecclesiastical parish: St James Dukes Place Town: London City County/Island: London Country: England Street address: 29 Duke St Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: London City Sub-registration district: Broad Street ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Household Members: Name Age Salomon Levy 46 Fanny Levy 41 Samuel Levy 20 Sarah Levy 16 Michael Levy 14 Esther Lazarus 40 (Sister-In-Law) Tailoress b. London, Middlesex Sarah Lazarus 21 (Niece) b. London, Middlesex Elizabeth Pitt 40 Thanks to http://www.jgsgb.org.uk, I believe this to be Moss JACOBS date of death & place of burial (note mourned by Sarah JACOBS) & the age fits for Moss: Cemetery Plot Location Record Source Edmonton Cemetery Q119 Tombstones at Edmonton Surname Given Names(s) Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Residence or Death JACOBS Moss Date of Death English Date of Death Hebrew Age at Death Date of Burial Hebrew Name 25-Dec-1960 86 Spouses Name Mothers Name Fathers Name Comments Associated Community on the JCR-UK Site Mourned by: JACOBS Sarah London Community Any interest?...please contact me on list or personally. Many thanks, Luana

This is sometimes found on earlier certificates when a death was sudden and unexpected. It usually means that the cause was not immediately obvious, but no foul play was suspected. A stroke is one possibility. Elly On 03/04/2008, Debbie Bozkurt <debbieinscotland@googlemail.com> wrote: > just opened up a death certificate, man aged > 83, cause of death, Visitation of God! Had plenty of natural Decay and > one that listed every known illness to man but this is a first.

I just thought I would share this as I have never seen this on a Death Certificate,: Was looking at some of my connecting branches from my non Jewish side to my Jewish Family and just opened up a death certificate, man aged 83, cause of death, Visitation of God! Had plenty of natural Decay and one that listed every known illness to man but this is a first. Has anyone else come upon any other strange cause of Death. Regards Debbie Bozkurt (Sunny Outer Hebrides)

Thanks so much to those kind people who took the trouble to explain the inscription on my great-grandmother's gravestone in Liverpool. Myra in Adelaide, South Australia.

Hi, Looking for those connected to or interested in the following couple: Moss (Moses?) JACOBS married Sarah LAZARUS in 1893 in Mile End: http://www.freebmd.org.uk Surname First name(s) District Vol Page Marriages Jun 1893 (>99%) Decker Amelia Mile End 1c 813 Jacobs Moses Mile End 1c 813 Lazarus Sarah Mile End 1c 813 Sesenwine Hyman Morris Mile End 1c 813 Moss was b. abt 1875 in London, to Isaac JACOBS & Esther DAVIS (both presumably b. in Poland and immigrated to England sometime prior to 1855). I don't know much abt. Sarah other than her mother was Esther LAZARUS (maiden unknown) as shown in the 1891 & 1901 census. 1901 census for Moss & Sarah (LAZARUS) JACOBS which shows mother-in-law Esther LAZARUS in the h/h: Name: Moss Jacobs Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: St George in The East, London, England Civil Parish: St Botolph Without Aldgate Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph without Aldgate County/Island: London Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: Whitechapel Sub-registration district: Goodmans Fields ED, institution, or vessel: 15 Household schedule number: 28 Household Members: Name Age Moss Jacobs 31 Fruit Porter b. St George East Sarah Jacobs 31 b. Shadwell Isaac Jacobs 8 b. St George East Abraham Jacobs 6 b. City Esther Jacobs 2 b. Whitechapel Lizzie Jacobs 1 month b. Whitechapel Esther Lazarus 49 (M-I-L) Second Hand Tailoress b. Regents Park I believe this is Sarah LAZARUS in the 1891 census prior to her marriage to JACOBS in 1893, with her mother Esther and they are in the LEVY h/h: Name: Sarah Lazarus Age: 21 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation: Niece Gender: Female Where born: Middlesex, London, England Civil Parish: St James Dukes Place Ecclesiastical parish: St James Dukes Place Town: London City County/Island: London Country: England Street address: 29 Duke St Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: Registration district: London City Sub-registration district: Broad Street ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Household Members: Name Age Salomon Levy 46 Fanny Levy 41 Samuel Levy 20 Sarah Levy 16 Michael Levy 14 Esther Lazarus 40 (Sister-In-Law) Tailoress b. London, Middlesex Sarah Lazarus 21 (Niece) b. London, Middlesex Elizabeth Pitt 40 Thanks to http://www.jgsgb.org.uk, I believe this to be Moss JACOBS date of death & place of burial (note mourned by Sarah JACOBS) & the age fits for Moss: Cemetery Plot Location Record Source Edmonton Cemetery Q119 Tombstones at Edmonton Surname Given Names(s) Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Residence or Death JACOBS Moss Date of Death English Date of Death Hebrew Age at Death Date of Burial Hebrew Name 25-Dec-1960 86 Spouses Name Mothers Name Fathers Name Comments Associated Community on the JCR-UK Site Mourned by: JACOBS Sarah London Community Any interest?...please contact me on list or personally. Many thanks, Luana

I believe Zvi is deer and not connected to Zeev which is wolf. Zvi is Hebrew and parallels the Yiddish name Hirsh. So he has two unrelated names Aaron (brother of Moses) and Zvi and he is descended from male ancestors of the Levi tribe. There are three tribes ongoing today COHAIN, LEVI and everything else is YISRAEL (ISRAEL). Ros ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackye Sullins" <jsullins@roadrunner.com> To: <mpwaddell@aapt.net.au>; <british-jewry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] help with grave inscription please > His name is Aaron Tzvi. Tzvi is a form of Zev. You can get more > information from Jewishgen's personal names page on their website. > Levite's > were the assistants to the rabbis and this was passed down through the > generations. My grandfather and his brother were Levites. > > Jackye Sullins > >> I need help please with part of the inscription on my great >> grandmother's grave - "daughter of Aaron Zvi the Levite" Of course I >> understand the first three words but what does "Zvi the Levite" mean? >> Thanks in advance. Myra in sunny South Australia. > > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi everyone, I need help please with part of the inscription on my great grandmother's grave - "daughter of Aaron Zvi the Levite" Of course I understand the first three words but what does "Zvi the Levite" mean? Thanks in advance. Myra in sunny South Australia.

Thanks David for alerting us to the excellent obit on your relative Tommy Gould. What a story! Naomi Barnett Melbourne, Australia

Dear David, Yes, sorry I made a mistake. It was the other guy. However, I especially like the bit where Masaod says "no Jew butcher in London cuts the same as I do." I never before thought that a butcher could recognise his own cuts. David Puycelsi But I think that it was a witness who had been a butcher 20 years, not Ralph. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now.

His name is Aaron Tzvi. Tzvi is a form of Zev. You can get more information from Jewishgen's personal names page on their website. Levite's were the assistants to the rabbis and this was passed down through the generations. My grandfather and his brother were Levites. Jackye Sullins > I need help please with part of the inscription on my great > grandmother's grave - "daughter of Aaron Zvi the Levite" Of course I > understand the first three words but what does "Zvi the Levite" mean? > Thanks in advance. Myra in sunny South Australia.

Dear Eve, Moses Lazarus, in the Poultry Compter for debt, address, Plymouth, then St. James, Dukes Place. Gazette 10532 for 1765. David Alexander Puycelsi Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] LAZARUS - Devon connections If anyone researching LAZARUS families finds anything about Lazaruses (Lazarii ?)with Devon connections, I'd like to hear from them. I think I have most of the census records/Exeter Synagogue/Susser Archive information, but if material turns up in other sources I'd really like to know. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now.

From: "David L Levy" <David.Levy@umb.edu> > Janis, > I have a Sarah Lazarus (ggg gmother) born abt. 1801 in London, and her > father was Ralph Lazarus, a butcher. I have a Raphael LAZARUS father of John LAZARUS born ±c1803 and Moses LAZARUS (I think). Could this Raphael by any chance be connected to yours? (I'm grabbing at straws I know!). Most of my LAZARUS men are noted as butchers, would an occupation run in the family? Samuel married Elizabeth Nathan in 1798, but I have not tracked down their > descendents. Your Elizabeth NATHAN, I have Miriam NATHAN born c1840 London married to Judah LAZARUS 13/7/1864. I've (hopefully) found her father David NATHAN. I calculated he was born ± 1819. By any chance a connection to your Elizabeth NATHAN? I'm trying to track some siblings for Miriam! Thank you for this information, really appreciated. Janis

If anyone researching LAZARUS families finds anything about Lazaruses (Lazarii ?)with Devon connections, I'd like to hear from them. I think I have most of the census records/Exeter Synagogue/Susser Archive information, but if material turns up in other sources I'd really like to know. Eve Richardson, in Toronto, where the temperature may actually climb into the double digits soon