** Bockerah Family London 1788

[Mel9320107]

It was on Londonlives.org, but now that I reread it I realise that it's a mistake in the transcript. It should read Bell, Bockerah, and Hobb. As in three last names. There are four documents relating to Bockerah there.

How did your sister find out about the Uzbekistan connection. I haven't been able to find anything about Solomon Bockerah's parents.

M

[markpalmer]

Hi Melissa and other readers
It was I, sighting a tempting but tentative conclusion, who found the Uzbekistani possibility, which was suggested by lounge-floor-Solomon. Still, there are in fact Bukhara Jews, and it feels likely enough for me to accept it as a working hypothesis that the family came from Bukhara, directly or indirectly, to England at some time. I do mean to suggest that I am seeking hard evidence. Money may need to be spent, preferably by someone who actually has money.

As for whether this boy was family - he thought it likely, but then again he didn't really know any more than I. Yet we accepted that we are probably cousins.
My guess is that Bokhara may have been a use-name derived from the family's origin - perhaps the fashion for surnames was not established in Uzbekistan at that time. It might be a time consuming exercise to discover more, but I'll poke around in-between my other little jobs and see what can be done.

I'll find lounge-floor Solomon if I can, and ask him to put me in contact with his family, who might be more in a position to suggest a way to advance the enquiry. However a desirable next step might be to obtain birth records of whatever kind for Solomon Bockerah and/or for Isaac, Solomon Bockerah's brother, to see if I can find their parents' names and origins.

What efforts have already been made to find such birth records, anybody, please?

Mark

[markpalmer]

I think that an Abram Boccara fled the Inquisition from italy in about 1709, but my Italian is non-existent and of course I have only an Italian language reference.
This reference is: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0N4xrj8M27AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Is one of us able to read this book?
Mark

[Ngaire Elizabeth Hall Patiole]

not sure how to work this but I have been to see Ann Sarah Bockerah gave site

[sarah]

Hello Ngaire, Welcome to RootsChat

I am very sorry but our email notification to Markpalmer has sadly bounced back to us, it looks like he has changed email address but we do not know what the new one is.

I did do a little search on his limited details, sadly I could not find him.

Old members do log back in, I hope that this will be the case here.

Regards

Sarah

[mwkelly]

Hi Ngaire,
your email came to me, so im not sure what your after. Solomon Bockera is an ancestor of mine.
Let me know what your after and Ill try and help?, i dont have much to go on. It seems he's a Spardi Jew
thanks
Murray