{"id":1200,"date":"2014-02-17T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2020-01-01T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:30:33","slug":"how-did-you-get-that-name-its-as-plain-as-a-pikestaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/how-did-you-get-that-name-its-as-plain-as-a-pikestaff\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you get that name? its as plain as a Pikestaff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">We\u2019ve said it a hundred times: transcribing the earliest extant UK <strong>Synagogue records<\/strong> is hard work and requires many qualities, foremost amongst which :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A knowledge of the cursive Hebrew alphabet;&nbsp; ditto Hebrew names, European place names, and the kinds of occupations&nbsp; and professions&nbsp; our 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> century forebears&nbsp; might have followed&nbsp; excellent eyesight<\/li>\n<li>perseverance<\/li>\n<li>Intuition<\/li>\n<li>A large degree of luck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">And it was a good dose of luck that&nbsp; led us to first find, and then solve, one such puzzle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">In order to simplify searches in <a href=\"www.synagoguescribes.co.uk,\">www.synagoguescribes.co.uk,<\/a>&nbsp; we\u2019ve been thinking about&nbsp; rationalising&nbsp; spellings across the various tables, without betraying the original intentions of our transcriber.&nbsp; We have started by looking at the \u201cadditional\u201d words in the patronymics. rather than the names themselves: for example <i>Schneider<\/i> or <i>Shneider?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">As you well know, consulting the microfilms of the original registers requires a trip to the Archives, so we don\u2019t &nbsp;have the original Hebrew to hand, &nbsp;but In the following example, the consonants must have corresponded to Sh-N-K. Susser has &nbsp;rendered these as as <i>Shnook<\/i> (long-nosed?). Lewin gives it as <i>Schnuk<\/i>. And we had it as &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. well. let\u2019s not go there since, top of a long list of results in a&nbsp; Google search, were multiple instances of a, rather dodgy word in modern French slang!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now this is where Lady Luck took a hand because, whilst I was trying to resolve the Sh-n-k problem, Gaby was researching a family with Dutch origins and chanced upon this<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchjewry.org\/genealogy\/ashkenazi\/index.htm\"><i>2nd marriage, daughter of David Barend Ber Lissa and Rebecca Salomon <strong>Snoek<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Event: event 1809 Amsterdam on the list under nr. 48.40[?]: the wid.Jochem Elias = Gittele, widow of Jochanan Luria, 68 yrs.old.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Event: was naturalized 8 Jun 1812 Amsterdam assumption of name Snoek<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Proust had his madeleines.&nbsp; Those of us old enough to have lived through WW2 will remember Snoek \u2013 and not in a good way. &nbsp;It mostly came tinned, although there might have been some sold fresh at the fishmongers. but, although it was off-rations and was intended to provide much needed protein., no-one liked it and the tins lay rusting on the shelves.. &nbsp;I never quite knew what it was, only that it smelled unpleasant and tasted worse, &nbsp;but a check today of the online encyclopaedias describes it&nbsp; as \u201d<b><i>Snoek or Snook<\/i><\/b> is used in various forms as the common name for several species of fish. The name derives from the Dutch name &#8220;snoek&#8221; for the pike\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1201\" src=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pike.jpg\" alt=\"Pike\" width=\"312\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pike.jpg 453w, https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pike-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!-- [if gte mso 10]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\nmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\nmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\nmso-style-noshow:yes;\nmso-style-parent:\"\";\nmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\nmso-para-margin:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\nfont-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 150%;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">And guess what!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The only English family that we have found with this unusual word in their patronymic were called PYKE eg:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/person-details\/?value=25021\">Jonah PIKE<\/a>&nbsp; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/person-details\/?value=362\"><br \/>\nElizabeth PIKE <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/person-details\/?value=2098\">Julia PIKE <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/person-details\/?value=21391\">Moses PIKE<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/person-details\/?value=27251\">(Child) PIKE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve 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;&nbsp; ditto Hebrew names, European place names, and the kinds <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/how-did-you-get-that-name-its-as-plain-as-a-pikestaff\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,34],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-stories-articles-interest","tag-jewish-genealogy","tag-synagogue-records-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synagoguescribes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}