The Marques Dower A short time ago a comment was placed on SynagogueScribes asking about the ‘Marques Dower’ due to a contribution of £50 made from the Mahil Sedaca’ for orphaned girls and also £80 from the Marques Dower. The … Continue reading →
We have added numbers of Early American New York Jewish Wills to Synagogue Scribes Will Extracts. These wills date from the early 1700s-1799 and were originally published in 1915 with further research in 1966-67. The wills were transcribed from the … Continue reading →
We are delighted to announce that we have added over 600 new Will extracts to our Secular Records. The focus of these new additions are Sephardic Jews of London based on those buried at Nuevo Sephardic Cemetery, Mile End London. … Continue reading →
We have added 120 Jewish Will Extracts from the 18th and 19th Century to SynagogueScribes. This takes the total to over 2000 will extracts that can be searched see Search Secular Reacords. Family names include: Aaron, Aarons, Arons Abadee Abarbanel, … Continue reading →
Over 400 Will extracts added to SynagogueScribes.com Each entry contains valuable information for tracing your Jewish Genealogy. Family names include: Aarons, Abadee, Aboab, Abrahams, Alexander, Allen, Alvares, Arons, Attias, Bamberger, Barnard, Barnet, Barnett, Barrow, Benjamin, Bernstein, Barndon, Bravo, Cantor, Capua, … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 added a further 200 new Will extracts to the collection found here to help you research your Jewish genealogy. There are many fascinating insights to be found amongst the wills, accounts of business transactions, married life, possessions and … Continue reading →
