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		<title>Secular Multi Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing our new Secular records Multi search! This is still in the development stage but will contain all our Secular Records so that you can search them all in one go. For now the database contains 400 Australian Mariages, 600 UK newspaper announcements (BMD), 1000 Mason records and 400 settlement records. The search enables you to either browse all the records or search for a given Family name and then sort the results.]]></description>
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		<title>Julius Mathews, Jane Elsbach and Annie Horwitz:  A Jewish divorce?  Or a bigamous marriage?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 28 July 1869, Jane Mathews stood before Alderman Hale in a London Police Court,   charged with “annoying” her husband, Mr Julius Mathews, an Importer of Leadenhall Street.  From the dock, she stated that she had written to her husband for money, but had only received a note in return and had therefore gone to see him in person.  The case, which was reported in the Jewish Chronicle (The Jewish Victorian 1861–1870: Doreen Berger 2004), also received an unusually wide coverage in the National Press: at its heart lay the position of Jewish marriage and divorce in relation to English law. Jane Mathews probably had a narrower and more personal perspective: as today’s popular press might have it . “Bitter, abandoned, wife pursues errant husband across Continents for basic maintenance” Julius Mathews and Jane Hirsch Elsbach were married at the Great Synagogue London on 10 Nov 1847 (www.synagoguescribes.co.uk)  Jane, a native of Germany, had been in England from at least 1841 when, aged about 15, she was living with her brother and his family in Whitechapel (1841 Census Jacob Elsback  NA Ref: HO107 Piece:716 Book/Folio: 8/27)  Julius arrived in  Hull in 1844  aged around 19 (Julius Mathews. Port of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MISTAKES HAPPEN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And when they do, we hold our hands up and apologise.  We recently found an error in our transcript of the Will of Elizabeth Gompertz NA143. which has now been corrected online.  We do our best to get things right but, regrettably, slip-ups, such as this, do creep in from time to time. As they do with all genealogists and family historians.  Only recently I heard from a long-standing correspondent who, post publication and distribution at a family simcha, discovered to her horror and annoyance, that her carefully researched family history contained a “stowaway” who had dodged her rigorous security checks and had sidled in undetected:  250 uninvited indviduals had to be removed &#8211; from the tree, that is, not the simcha! &#160; Like ourselves, our correspondent was able to correct her mistake: unlike the big names from the past – Mordy, Roth, Stern, Hyamson, etc – whose errors, through no fault of their own, remain for all time. This underlines one of the advantages of online publishing: we can effect instant updates, edits and, of course, apologies. We have been unfairly accused in some quarters of being “possessive” of our data.  We are not.  But we are “protective” and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Will Abstracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few of the abstracts on our site conceal quite so much romance and drama behind the dry, archaic, legal language in which it was written, as the Will of Jacques de Paiva  who wrote his Will aboard the ship Beaufort en route to Madras, and whose widow subsequently became the mistress of mistress of Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras and said to be the founder of Yale University. Certainly, none of the 30 new abstracts we uploaded onto the site today can compete with De Paiva on that score. But lack of &#8220;glamour&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean lack of interest, and we think there is plenty in these latest additions to the site to interest Jewish Genealogists with both Sephardi and Ashkenazi ancestors. Many of the individuals have links to families already on one or other of our sites: the death of Benjamin Abraham GOLDSCHMIDT and will NA1452.  The marriage of Joshua JOSHUA NA1458 can be found here at  and, thanks to information found in the will of Simon BENJAMIN NA1467, we have been able to add his wife, Rachel, as a daughter of Moses SOLOMON Another individual with links across Anglo Jewry is Maurice da Costa.  Originating from Switzerland, he settled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portsmouth records by Henry Roche</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTSMOUTH SYNAGOGUE EARLY MEMBERSHIP LIST 1765 to 1843 (PSEM)       Henry Roche Oct.2012 NOTES:  This list (PSEM) is taken from the Purchases of Membership recorded in the Portsmouth Synagogue First Minute Book (MB1), which covers the period 1765 to 1843. MB1 opens with the events leading to the great Split of February 1766, which lasted until two congregations were reunified in February 1789.  Near the start of MB1 is inscribed a list of names of those on both sides of the dispute, the Old Congregation (OC) and the New Congregation (NC), and I have numbered these names in the order they are given (OC 1?14 and 15?25, and NC 1?17). MB1 being the minute book of the Old Congregation, it naturally records its own membership only, and not that of NC (apart from the above list).   No minute books survive for the NC, but I have compensated for this, and broadened the scope of this list, by including all known NC “members” or affiliates (many of these are also shown as finally taking OC membership during the 1780’s, or even as late as 1791). Also included are the names of Ministers or other officials of both Congregations, for whom it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Rigal 1925 &#8211; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are sad to report the death of one of the great servants of Anglo-Jewish genealogy. George&#8217;s knowledge was encyclopaedic and his generosity in sharing that knowledge was unsurpassed. With nothing more than the most basic information &#8211; a name and a date, or an address &#8211; you could be certain that, within a short space, of time he would produce a mass of relevant data, invariably adding &#8220;He/she was a cousin of Margaret&#8217;s great uncle so-and-so”. It sometimes seemed the whole of Anglo Jewry was related to Margaret! George was a founder member and unstinting supporter of the JGSGB where he held a variety of positions with grace and distinction. For many, he was the first person they met on joining the Society and his presence in the Library ensured that new members went away enthused and better informed. He was also a patient and tireless seeker-out and transcriber of genealogical records, producing invaluable work on 19th century Jewish charities, on marriages at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue at St John’s Wood, and perhaps most especially. on insurance policies taken out by Jews in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. His work was always marked by punctilious attention to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Will of Jacques de Paiva 1688</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques de Paiva sometimes known as James and Isaac and whose Hebrew name is thought to have been Moses Zagache (according to R.D. Barnett and Edgar Roy Samuel see Jonathan Schorsch, « Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva : An Amsterdam Portuguese Merchant abroad in the Seventeenth Century » in The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History ed. Yosef Kaplan, Leiden 2008, pp. 63-86. In note 61 Schorsch refers to Barnetts work on the Circumcision registers of Isaac and Abraham de Paiva ad to Samuel’s Diamonds and Pieces of Eight). Jacques parents are thought to be Diego Netto de Paiva (b. 1618 in St. Marnie) and Lea Sagache (b. 1636 in Madrid). They married in Amsterdam in 1648 (see Akevoth, Sepharadim Sephardic Marriages, certificate no. 680-19). Jacques’ cousin Abraham Zagache would therefore be a son of Lea’s brother. Jacques wrote his will aboard the ship « Beaufort » en route to Madras. Cousin Moses « who goes with us » is Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva the subject of the article by Schorsch. Apparently, Jacques had travelled to India to buy diamonds, but he took sick and died in Madras in 1687. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A less exotic place to live</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, in our work of transcribing early Anglo Jewish community records,  we have come across Hebrew words which translate as &#8220;From the Medina&#8220;. To our  ill-informed minds, this was romantically suggestive of Morocco, or some other exotic North African or Arab city. and made quite a change from the habitual places of origin or residence, such as Amsterdam, Hamburg and The Hague, and the even more mundane English towns of Liverpool, Harwich and Deptford.  Luckily, our learned friend and guide &#8220;The Professor&#8221;  was able to put us right. He advise that, when used in the context of these records, the expression. “From the Medina” denotes that the person lived outside the main Metropolis &#8211; in our case, invariably, London. Thus, when we came across this record in some late 18th century burial records we are currently processing for  Synagogue Scribes. &#8220;1791 9 Adar shin, child Joseph Lehrburg from medina&#8221;, We were able to identify both the family, and the place of domicile, from some existing burials on our sister site www.cemeteryscribes.co.uk. The father of this child was Joseph SAMUEL. And his interesting, but rather less exotic, place of habitation? Not Fez or Marrakesh, but Hoddesdon, a small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogy Quality Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that SynagogueScribes subscribes to the Genealogy Quality Code a  voluntary code for compilers and users of genealogy databases. You will find their logo on each of our pages. After events detailed here in our warning we are delighted to be able to join this code. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Will of Diego Rodrigues Marques dated 1675</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will fascinated us to such an extent that we attempted to transcribe it all. The vast amount of information covering people, places, trade, possessions and a little family intrigue make it the most interesting we have come across so far. We are publishing here extracts from our transcription, but stress that it is not complete and may contain errors given the difficulties experienced in reading it and as always it is best to view the original, held at the National Archives or to purchase a copy via their online service. You can find the extract of Diego&#8217;s wife Sara Auriques&#8217; will and other family members by searching our secular records for Family Name Marques. Diego Rodrigues Marques (SynagogueScribes Secular records, Wills NA1249) In the name of God Amen. London the 10th day of November 1675 I Diego Rodrigues Marques this 10/20 of November being my perfect understanding do declare by this my last will which after my life ended which God continue many years is to be performed as hereafter is mentioned. ITEM, I do owe **** of sterling to John Machado de Goa for two parcels of diamonds[1] which he sent me by the ship Falcon and Mary[2] [...]]]></description>
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