A possible alternative derivation of the Soman name is from Solomon or one of its homonyms. Michael Sayers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Leschnikoff" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:35 PM Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Soman family - Norwich - Thanks and more thoughts... > Dear all, > > Thank you to Keira Lockyer, Linda Kelly, Michael Sayers and Sherry Landa > for > their help in researching the Soman family from Norwich. > > I had a daft thought that maybe, Soman was the anglicized way of > pronouncing > the French "saumon" - reason being that one of the early Soman people is > said to have come here from Epinal in Vosges, France. Why would an > immigrant adopt this pronounciation of the French for salmon? Why are so > many of our Jewish families named Salmon eh? So, I wondered what the odds > were for there being families with the name of Salmon in Vosges, and I did > a > search on Geneanet.org, and promptly came up with quite a number of trees > with the Salmon name in them. Not only that, but it appears that the > places > these Salmons were living in are very closeby to Epinal - surrounding > villages in fact. So probably, David Somon was from a village or town > near > to Epinal. > > Perhaps some of your could advise me further; I already have cottoned on > to > the link between Solomon and Salmon / Salomon, Saloman etc. It also > appears > that Vosges had a small community of Jewish people that was decimated by > the > holocaust. and there was a synagogue in Epinal - I googled synagogue and > epinal to get this info. > > So that's where I'm at; although the Somons aren't related to me at all, > except by marriage, I have maybe stumbled on a lost part of the family's > history. If anyone is related to them directly and would like to get in > touch, please do. > > Best regards, > > Jessica Leschnikoff - and I thought my last name was "complicated". > > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > [email protected] is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message