On 16-Jan-11, at 4:39 AM, Marged wrote: > > >> From Liverpool 1882 > On new snippets page > Please support free sites > > http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/index.html > Jane > Yes thank you both for posting these documents from Liverpool about Jewish emigration. I have just started to look into daughter's paternal line (part of which is Jewish from Russia, folks fleeing the pogroms, and I found one branch at the Ellis Island site who went from Odessa via Liverpool to New York). It is very challenging trying to find traces. The snippets posted here provide very useful context. Reminds us all of how central Liverpool has been in the movement of all kinds of people. Carolyn
Carolyn wrote >Reminds us all of how central Liverpool has been in the movement of all >kinds of >people. But by no means everyone has used Liverpool simply as a transit camp, of course. My ancestor Miles FELLS features in the Liverpool Burgess Roll of 1565 and in Liverpool Town Books of the same era. And here am I - his 11 x great-grandson - still hanging around the old place almost 450 years later! :-) Gordon From: "Carolyn Perkes" <cperkes@videotron.ca> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Fw: [Liverpool-Memories] Emigration ofJewish refugees >On 16-Jan-11, at 4:39 AM, Marged wrote: >From Liverpool 1882 >On new snippets page >Please support free sites >http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/index.html >Jane > >Yes thank you both for posting these documents from Liverpool about >Jewish emigration. I have just started to look into daughter's >paternal line (part of which is Jewish from Russia, folks fleeing the >pogroms, and I found one branch at the Ellis Island site who went from >Odessa via Liverpool to New York). >It is very challenging trying to find traces. >The snippets posted here provide very useful context. Reminds us all >of how central Liverpool has been in the movement of all kinds of >people. >Carolyn
That's impressive Gordon! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Fw: [Liverpool-Memories] Emigration ofJewishrefugees > Carolyn wrote > >>Reminds us all of how central Liverpool has been in the movement of all >>kinds of >>people. > > But by no means everyone has used Liverpool simply as a transit camp, of > course. > My ancestor Miles FELLS features in the Liverpool Burgess Roll of 1565 > and in Liverpool Town Books of the same era. > > And here am I - his 11 x great-grandson - still hanging around the old > place > almost 450 years later! :-) > > Gordon > > From: "Carolyn Perkes" <cperkes@videotron.ca> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:45 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Fw: [Liverpool-Memories] Emigration ofJewish > refugees > >>On 16-Jan-11, at 4:39 AM, Marged wrote: >>From Liverpool 1882 >>On new snippets page >>Please support free sites >>http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/index.html >>Jane >> >>Yes thank you both for posting these documents from Liverpool about >>Jewish emigration. I have just started to look into daughter's >>paternal line (part of which is Jewish from Russia, folks fleeing the >>pogroms, and I found one branch at the Ellis Island site who went from >>Odessa via Liverpool to New York). >>It is very challenging trying to find traces. >>The snippets posted here provide very useful context. Reminds us all >>of how central Liverpool has been in the movement of all kinds of >>people. >>Carolyn > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email