> According to information I have, Joseph Isaac MAGINSKY was married to > Rachel Annie JOSEPH and they had several children. When working with a > major online genealogy website I keep coming across an 1901 English census > showing Isaac Joseph and Annie Joseph having children named Sara, Barnard, > Dora, Morris, Rubin ... the same names (or close enough) as Joseph and > Rachel Maginsky's children. Do you know if it is possible that at some > point, for some reason, the family chose to go by the mother's maiden name > and the mother and father (Joseph and Rachel) chose to use their middle > names? Jan Groshan USA - California

Does anybody think that Maginsky is close to Magid [a preacher]? Maybe the surname Joseph was safer, more generic, more English, and protected the Magid, if he was still living? Do you find that sometimes the child's middle name is a parent's given name, and, when the parent dies, the child goes by his or her middle name? Linda Wolfe Kelley California>Oregon On Aug 6, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Jan wrote: > ...Joseph Isaac MAGINSKY was married to > Rachel Annie JOSEPH...Isaac Joseph and Annie Joseph having > children.. the same names (or close enough) as Joseph and > Rachel Maginsky's children. Do you know if...family chose to go by > the mother's maiden name > and the mother and father (Joseph and Rachel) chose to use their > middle > names? Jan Groshan USA - California 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

My great grandmother is shown as Rebecca in the British Censuses of 1861, 1871 and 1881 and as Rachel or Raychel Davis in the US censuses of 1910 and earlier. My grandmother said her MIL name was Rebecca or Rachel. She moved to the US in 1888. Plus a cousin on my fathers side is sometimes Ann Elizabeth or vice versa and was known as Lizzie. So it is possible. Jean Henshall Halifax NS Canada Researching Davis, Levy. Poland, Manchester Brooklyn NY and Venice CA Sent from my iPhone On 2012-08-06, at 11:12 PM, "Jan" <jangro@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> According to information I have, Joseph Isaac MAGINSKY was married to >> Rachel Annie JOSEPH and they had several children. When working with a >> major online genealogy website I keep coming across an 1901 English census >> showing Isaac Joseph and Annie Joseph having children named Sara, Barnard, >> Dora, Morris, Rubin ... the same names (or close enough) as Joseph and >> Rachel Maginsky's children. Do you know if it is possible that at some >> point, for some reason, the family chose to go by the mother's maiden name >> and the mother and father (Joseph and Rachel) chose to use their middle >> names? > > Jan Groshan > USA - California > > 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