My thanks to those messages listers have placed on the site regarding Jacobs/Levy and other families. My interest in the Levy line is only to support one of my distant relatives with their family research not least because she lives in the USA and cannot easily visit the UK for research. In relation to documentary evidence such as Colyer Fergusson, Hyamson and other sources the suggestion that one lister has made regarding caution is well taken. Indeed I remember that there was various correspondence on this site relating to the accuracy or otherwise of such data. I studied over forty years ago as a historian in London and am well aware of the need to review primary and other sources carefully. I researched some of the London poor houses and prisons in the 18th C as part of my research and had a particular interest in 18th C English social history.Having also lived in Western Australia and NSW I also know about the various sources of family history that exist on that continent and am fortunate in having distant cousins who can research and verify such sources. Dinah, you mentioned Eleazer Levy and the fact that it is highly probable that there are more than one person of that name. I have copy of a will summary dated 1810 for an Eleazer Levy of Cutler St Houndsditch in which he refers to his relatives including: his wife's sister Bilha and daughters Rachel and Fronica?- their father Hartog Abram of the Hague.Other relatives include Moses Leipnick of the Hague and his family;Rachel and Rosy Levy of the Hague;Benjamin Pos and his family of the Hague; Hyman Levy of Bookers Gardens Leadenhall St; Reuben Levy; and reference to maternal grandfathers Bernard Polack Pos and Alexander Polack Pos; descendants of Wolf and Esther Myers. There are also later codicils which refer to bequests to Fanny Levy wife of Hyman Levy;Hyam Cohen Dr Phillip Kirby Norwich Norfolk