Please note - as this post is very long it is divided up into 3 parts. This is part 1, but please refer to the parts 2 and 3 (which may be in this or the next BJ digest) for the complete story. Thank you. Apols for this very long post but I have hit a big, brick wall am hoping someone can shed some more light on 2 branches of my family, whose surnames were KAISER (changed to KING), and ABRAHAMS (also known as BRAHAM). I would like to try to find out 4 things: 1 - if there are any KAISER/KING or ABRAHAMS descendants out there who I could be put in touch with, who might know when these families each arrived in the UK, 2 - whether or how any of the KAISER/KING or ABRAHAMS family members were related to other families whose surnames were HYAMS and SOLOMON. 3 - where the KAISER/KING branch of my family came from before living in the UK (there are no naturalisation files). 4 - exactly how any of the ABRAHAMS family members, or how Abraham or Fanny KAISER/KING or were related to my Russian family whose surnames were SCHAFFER, SVIDLER, WOLFSON, and GOTHILF. >From 1906 till 1908, Abraham and Morris KAISER/KING, together with their relative Harry ABRAHAMS, were listed as being fish curers in the city of London, which they owned or managed, until they were made bankrupt by the High Court from 1908. Were any of them related to any of the following - Nathan HYAMS, and/or to either of his sons Emanuel HYAMS & Joseph Mitchell HYAMS, and/or to Joseph's son Edward Solomon HYAMS, the previous owners and fishmongers in either Artillery Lane or Artillery Passage? From the 19th century onwards, these and other HYAMS family members were buried in Brady Street, West Ham, East Ham and Plashet cemeteries. Were any of the KAISER's/KING's or ABRAHAMS's related in any way to the SOLOMON family (Samuel the fruiterer, his sons Edward, Frederick and Charles, musical composers, or to his grand-daughter Annette Sarah SOLOMON, a singer, who married Joseph Mitchell HYAMS the fishmonger)? From the 18th century onwards, the SOLOMON family members were buried in Maiden Lane cemeteries, possibly West Ham and Willesden cemeteries. Lazarus's son Harry ABRAHAMS married Annie KAISER in London in 1906 when her father Abraham KAISER was living in the Mile End Road. On his 1906 marriage certificate, Harry ABRAHAMS was listed as being a property dealer but in the directories and in the High Court in 1908, he was clearly listed as being a fish curer! Please also read the 2 following posts - parts 2 and 3, for further information about the ABRAHAMS and KAISER/KING family, but If anyone can help me with the 4 points about the ABRAHAMS's and the KAISER's/KING's at the start of this post I would be delighted to hear from you. Many thanks, B. Shiel (London) blspabas@btinternet.com