We are currently working on a substantial set of hitherto un-transcribed CIRCUMCISION REGISTERS:

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Over  700 records covering a 70 year period between 1790 and 1860, the greater part of which include English names and addresses.

Most of the entries are for families living in London, but these Mohels got around and we have addresses in Bedford, Chatham and Hull.

I got quite excited when I saw the latter:  maybe there would be one for my elusive Samson ancestor, at least two of whose children were born there around 1816.   Alas! Once again I drew a blank:  the Hull births were more than 3 decades later.  But I was delighted to find a London record that, whilst not mine, gave me as much satisfaction: this was the 1814 circumcision of Barnett, son of NATHAN NATHAN of Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, who we can Identify as the Bertram Nathan who died in Melbourne Australia in 1871. Bertram’s father, Nathan Nathan, is the antecedent of the amazing American woman whose, at the time, unique transcriptions of some of the early Synagogue Registers formed the genesis of the Synagogue Scribes database.

We regret that she is no longer alive to benefit from this new data, but we know she was in regular postal contact with descendants of the extended Nathan family in Australia and New Zealand, so if any of them should chance to read this, do please get in touch and we will give you the details.   For the rest of you, please be patient!   Transcribing, translating and formatting the records is an arduous task but we are well on our way. So keep checking the site.  Maybe you will be luckier than me!

Source: we will show full source details for these new records and also our thanks to a visitor to our site for drawing them to our attention and for all her help, when we publish them.