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Offline josephinemary

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Re: From Russia with love?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 22 March 10 16:32 GMT (UK) »
A very big thank you to all for your help.
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Re: From Russia with love?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 23 March 10 17:37 GMT (UK) »
Josie,

Given that the family are fairly clearly Jewish, Kate's surname was likely Bloch or Blokh.

Max was a common anglicisation for the Hebrew name Mordechai (Yiddish Mordche) as was Marks. This would explain why brothers Barnet and Harold adopted that surname.

I suspect that Krevitski is possibly closer to the original than Grivitski. It is possibly a corruption of Kravetski.

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Re: From Russia with love?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 04 January 19 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi Josephinemary. I'm one of the Marks family, my grandfather was born Grivitski but his dad changed the kids' surname to Marks (not sure if he changed his own) when they were children/teenagers. As others have suggested they were a Jewish family. I believe the name was changed because Marks was a less foreign sounding name than the very Russian Grivitski.

How did you get interested in the family? Happy to chat more.
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