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Burto
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Jewish immigrants 18th-19th century?
« on: Monday 24 March 08 19:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I was just wondering if any Jewish immigrants settled down in England, particularly Nottingham, around the 18th-19th centuries?
I have put a query on the Nottingham thread, but just wondered if it was something that happened across the country around that time and how would they have fitted into society?
There is the possibility that I have Jewish ancestors. Were there particular jobs that they did around this time and did they try and cover their faith up by baptising their children in churches etc?
Thanks.
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Swift , Cross, Matthews, Hudson , Price , Clarke , Elliot, Rockley, Dewey, Turton, Nottingham
Aldread, Brentnall, Cowlishaw Derbyshire
Smith Bilston Staffordshire
Bennett, Calary? Ireland
Johnson, US of A
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Re: Jewish immigrants 18th-19th century?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 24 March 08 21:20 GMT (UK) »
Hello again,

I have Jewish ancestors and they definitely used to have marriages in churches, I suppose as a formalising of the Jewish ceremony. My family were all in Lambeth and probably arrived in the mid to late 18th century. They were Sephardic Jews, surnames Frost & Braham.
I have never found a baptism but that doesn't mean they didn't happen. They came from the Netherlands but were originally from Spain/Portugal and the Spanish had chucked them out so they went to the Netherlands and then onto Britain.

Hope this is of some help.  Smiley
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Romany/Traveller:
BLACKMAN, BUCKLAND, BURGESS, DIX, DOBSON, FOLEY, GRANT/PARKER, HUNT, JONES, MUNDAY/MONDAY, MORGAN, NOYELL, ORCHARD, PAGE, REED, VINCENT

Jewish:
BRAHAM, FROST, LYONS

French:
HONEYSETT, LEVETT PETTIT

English:
BELSHAW, BETTSWORTH, CANE, COVENTRY, DOBSON, FRY,  NURSE, POOK, PUTLAND, PUTT, SMITH, SNELGROVE, TEE, TUDGAY, VENUS/VENESS

Irish:
ANDERSON, KILLOUGH, MACCORMACK, MACROBERTS, MORTON, MOORE, WALLACE
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Re: Jewish immigrants 18th-19th century?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 March 08 08:10 GMT (UK) »
Hello Burto,

What makes you think that these ancestors were Jewish? Please tell us a bit more about thesm. Maybe we can help you confirm whether they were Jewish or not.

My own Jewish ancestors came from northern Germany to London in the 1870s. Three brothers including my ggf started a cigar importation business. Their father and uncle had been tobacco manufacturers in Germany.

Justin
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