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Dublin / Re: Jewish Ancestors in Dublin
« on: Monday 01 April 19 04:57 BST (UK)  »
Michelle:

Greetings from your cousin in California. HG2 will fill you in.

Dolphins Barn

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Family History Beginners Board / Passports Needed for Factory Jobs 1880s?
« on: Monday 03 September 18 20:04 BST (UK)  »
Did immigrants from Eastern Europe need passports as a prerequisite to obtaining employment in the factories in England and Scotland in the 1880s?

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Ireland / Factory Jobs Late 1800s
« on: Monday 03 September 18 19:39 BST (UK)  »
Is there a good source for understanding how word of garment factory jobs spread in the late 1800s? Seems like large numbers of Eastern European immigrants (Russian, Lithuanian) would work in one city (such as Glasgow) and then move on to another (like Leeds). Was this for better pay or better working conditions or other reasons? These moves often appear to have involved extended families.

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Dublin / Re: Jewish Ancestors in Dublin
« on: Monday 03 September 18 00:32 BST (UK)  »
I believe we are related. My great grandfather was Maurice Abramson who married Esther Friedman (Fridman/Freedman) in 1887 in Dublin. The marriage certificate states she signed with an "x" which may explain the variation of the surname spelling. The address on their marriage certificate is 57 Lombard Street West. Tobias was her father. Louis Abramson is shown on the certificate Maurice's father. However, Louis was Maurice's brother. Their father was Julius Abramson from Lithuania. The family moved shortly thereafter to Glasgow where Sam was born June 13, 1889 at 6 Oxford Lane, and then to Leeds where Lillie was born as well as my grandmother Betsy on August 13, 1894 at 96 Byron Street. Maurice is listed on her birth certificate as a tailor presser. The family moved to Boston, MA in 1896. Sometime after the marriage and for reasons I have been unable to determine, Julius, Maurice and Esther changed their surname to Cohen as Sam is listed on his birth certificate as Cohen as well as parents Maurice and Esther. Other Abramsons retained their name and also emigrated to the U.S. Tobias died in Glasgow in 1902. As an interesting literary side note, James Joyce's novel Ulysses mentions 57 Lombard Street West in which a Jewish family resides. In May 2018 I visited 57 Lombard as well as the synagogue where the marriage took place. Both buildings are intact.


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