Debbie thanks for your message and I'd be very interested to know what resources you may have. I am curious to learn if she married in the UK, then I could get the Hebrew marriage cert & the UK one, but suspect she married before she came here given her age. I am also curious to learn of her surname before she got married. The first name of the relative was Hannah, her surname at the time of her death was Schaffer, but on electoral registers it has also been recorded as Shaffer and Sheffer. She died in London in 1942 aged 60 and the only information the cemetery has is her last known address (in E3). Her stone does not name her father's surname only his Hebrew first names. Her husband's name at the time of his death was Lewis but it has been recorded on previous electoral registers as Louis. I do not know the names of their children but there was a son and more than one daughter. Not sure about the husband she married but I believe Hannah herself came from Belarus/Russian Empire. Hannah is not listed in the JC in any shape or form, and like the rest of that branch of the family did not get naturalised when arriving, and I have not yet checked the UK 1901 or 1891 censuses. The E3 address I found for her in the local archives only lists her as living there for after 1937. It is highly likely she lived in the east end before 1937, but where I do not know. So any clues that lead to her marriage, her original surname and her former address/es in London would be brilliant! Thank you for any help you could give, much appreciated, B.Shiel

Hi Debbie, just curious about something you have alluded to in the following... "but on electoral registers it has also been recorded as > Shaffer and Sheffer. "... "and like the rest of > that branch of the family did not get naturalised when arriving," I was always under the impression that one needed to be a citizen of the country in order to vote. Wouldn't that mean that if your missing Hannah was on an electoral roll she must have been naturalised?? Or am I wrong in assuming the electoral roll in the UK only lists those eligible to vote? Or have I misunderstood altogether, and she wasn't on the roll herself? (we recently found someone in Australia who was on an electoral roll, but was struck off as soon as it was clear he couldn't prove Australian citizenship! Made very interesting reading!!) Lesley Melbourne, Australia