These burial records have been abstracted from Hambro Synagogue burial registers and cover 1791 to 1872. Whilst these records show the date, Family Name, Forename and address of the deceased, where known, full transcriptions of these records, including Hebrew names, … Continue reading →
We’ve said it a hundred times: transcribing the earliest extant UK Synagogue records is hard work and requires many qualities, foremost amongst which : A knowledge of the cursive Hebrew alphabet; ditto Hebrew names, European place names, and the kinds … Continue reading →
There are a number of fascinating elements to Isaac Aboab’s Will, an abstract of which, thanks to David Alexander, will soon be added to SynagogueScribes’ ever growing collection. Isaac was born in Tetuan (a city in northern Morocco) in about … Continue reading →
Adapted from a talk delivered to the Annual Conference of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain October 2013 Consider the following facts: The readmission of the Jews to the United Kingdom took place CIRCA 1656 – the date is … Continue reading →
In 2010 we featured a piece on our Cemeteryscribes blog Names: Places of origin or occupations or ? We recently received a lengthy follow-up from a correspondent from Australia. Much of this very interesting post is outside our scope. Neither … Continue reading →
THE PORTSMOUTH CIRCUMCISION REGISTER 113 Circumcision records, transcribed by Henry Roche from the original register. We are delighted to announce the inclusion in this valuable set of records in our Main Database. These unique records, which carry the … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
We are sad to report the death of one of the great servants of Anglo-Jewish genealogy. George’s knowledge was encyclopaedic and his generosity in sharing that knowledge was unsurpassed. With nothing more than the most basic information – a name … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
From time to time, in our work of transcribing early Anglo Jewish community records, we have come across Hebrew words which translate as “From the Medina“. To our ill-informed minds, this was romantically suggestive of Morocco, or some other exotic … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
We have been robbed!. Not once, but twice! Firstly, by a Very Large, Highly Respectable, Organisation. We still aren’t clear what possessed them. Over-enthusiasm? Naievete? Or sheer thoughtlessness? Whatever the cause, the result has been highly damaging. Whole datasets from our … Continue reading →
Preparing records for our website SynagogueScribes consists of several operations. First comes the transcription of the original. This is followed, in turn, by the transliteration \ translation of the Hebrew content; the conversion of Hebrew Dates into Civil dates; the … Continue reading →
We have been sent the following list of 394 individuals buried at Green Lane, Jewish Cemetery in Liverpool. This Jewish burial ground was acquired in 1839 and used until about 1921 although there was a later burial there in 1952. … Continue reading →
Hebrew names and Yiddish names in Jewish Genealogy: The following is an extract from a post on Jewishgen, published here with the kind permission of Dick Plotz. Dick posted this in answer to a query about a Hebrew inscription which … Continue reading →
Over 100 further Will extracts have been added to SynagogueScribes Secular database. These can be searched here Plus we are already collating a third batch of extracts to be added soon. Amongst them was a lucky find, which we can’t … Continue reading →
