The Deputy would have been chosen by Exeter Hebrew Congregation. There is no residential requirement for Deputies. I suggest writing to the Boad of Deputies and Exeter for further information. Exeter may well have minutes on the appointment. Maurice Hoffman Wembley
Hi, all. I was tinkering with Old Bailey records of criminal trials in London yesterday and realized they had added records from 1834 to 1913! Just searching the same family names and having a new horizon yielded results--my great great great grandmother's uncle, Samuel Solomons who I thought was a curiosity dealer (census report) was listed by his son in law as having a tobacco manufactury on Cable Street in 1880. It was interesting to me, because that was the last, and as far as I know, only chunk of the London family that hadn't immigrated by then. They were victims of some kind of theft (lucky for me that area was so crime ridden...actually by then it was starting to be the Jack the Ripper area, but my family tended to be yelling "stop thief!", asking someone if that thing they were pawning was really theirs, or saying (circa 1818) that the serving girl was home with her mother on Easter Sunday (when the mom's new husband was accused of committing a violent crime--serving girl said father was with them at the meal--he was found guilty and sentenced to death so her alibi didn't help--fun detail: the serving girl had my great great great great grandmother's toddler son with her--probably the above mentioned Samuel Solomon's younger brother Joseph and, as my ancestor Phoebe Solomon said, "I would have remembered if she had been out late with my child") For the new trials, I don't see a way to click on the location of crimes, which was a useful feature in the old records, but I see the old records from 16whatever-1830 are available, and one can enter a street into that map search. The map search function was extremely important in establishing the connection for my family to Cable Street/Back Church Lane/Rosemary Lane (now called Mint Street) and a tiny yard off Rosemary called "Swallow's Gardens" (home of Phoebe and Emanuel in 1818 and half a block from every named location for that family for every census/record for the next 65 years). Anyway, here's the link: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/ccc/forms/formMain.jsp Carolyn Hahn, NYC Searching for SOLOMON/S in St George in the East