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Abraham Weekes (c.1886 - 1916) Jewish Socialist
« on: Tuesday 20 October 09 15:10 UTC (UK) »
It's a long shot but wondering if anyone could help. I'm trying to research this individual.

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Abraham Weekes/Weeks/Wix  was a Jewish socialist (1) from Norwich (2) who fought and died in the 1916 Rising in Dublin.

In email correspondence with Darren Lynch, he has sent me two references to Weekes that he found in his Grandfathers files from research done in the 1940s into those killed in the Rising:

- "Arthur "Neill" Weekes ... came over to Dublin with the Kerr brothers and many other Liverpool men to partake in the Rising. He was accidentally shot on Friday the 28th April 1916 as the last of the volunteers were making their way onto Henry Street."

- "Arthur Weekes nicknamed "Niall" was from Norwich, Norfolk in the U.K. and was a member of the London Brigade."

Weekes is also named in the 1991 An Phoblact ‘Easter 1916 Roll of Honour’ as an Englishman who died on April 28th 1916 in the ‘GPO area’.

One source also claims that Weekes was "German by birth and worked as a chef in the Shelbourne Hotel" in Dublin.

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1. The Irish Worker (No.43. Saturday, May 3rd 1924) - “A. Weeks, a Jewish comrade who joined on Easter Monday and died in action”
2. Padraic O'Farrell, Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1916-23), (2nd Edition, 1997) - WEEKES, A,. Norwich, England, 28-4-1916.
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