Jewish Records

[mofid42]

Hi All

Does anyone know of any online UK Jewish BMD records from the late 1700's and early 1800's?

many thanks

[Countrywoman]

You could try the JGSGB site. There is also the Bevis Marks Synagogue for those of Sephardic ancestry and also The West London Synagogue.

[mofid42]

Thank you Countrywoman

Not sure what the JGSGB is ....is it online?

I will check out the Synagues you mentioned. I think the people I am looking for may be Sephardic

[davidrigg3]

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

[mofid42]

Thank you

[sandiep]

Hi Mofid

anyone in particular you are looking for?.....I have record books for Bevis Marks & Great synagogue....happy  to have a look for you

sandie

[mofid42]

Hi Sandie

Thank you for your kind offer.

I am interested in Godfrey Alexander Cohen who was born abt 1783 and married Frances Jonas on 27 Apr 1808 Great Synagogue

I have found a bit about him on the internet which states he had one daughter Esther Cohen b abt 1812 Whitechapel London, who married Joseph Moses Levy abt 1830 but I don't have an exact date for their marriage.

I have also discovered that Godfrey had another two daughters Eliza b abt 1811 Mile End London who died a spinster in 1873 and Anne Cohen b abt 1815 Mile End London who married William Spencer Johnson 18 Feb 1837 Saint Dunstan Stepney.
 On the 27 Aug 1837 Anne Cohen (using her maiden name) was baptised at Saint Dunstan Stepney and the entry states it was an adult baptism, the name of her parents, that she was the wife of William Spencer Johnson and that she was a Jewess by birth.

I am trying to find the exact dates for the births of Godfrey's daughters and whether he had any other children.

If you can help that would be wonderful. Look forward to your reply
regards
MOIRA

[Marmalady]

Hiya Sandie -- would those record books cover Jews living in Norfolk?

I have Moses Levi bn approx 1749 who lived in Diss Norfolk

I have his marriage to Francis Fuller in the Parish church in 1785 and the bapt of his children with Francis, also in the Parish Church

I suspect he may have been married to a Mary before Francis as there is a burial of a 24 yr old Mary Levi, wife of Moses in 1778

I am looking for anything on his birth, parents and possible first marriage

[sandiep]

Hi Moira

I am sorry I am not going to be of any help......I have gone through all the books I have on both Great Synagogue, Hambro & New Synagogue for Ashkenazi records and the Bevis Marks for Sephardic records and the only reference to a Godfrey Alexander Cohen is the marriage in The Great Synagogue which you already have.
Now the books I have may well have some records missing, so I am sorry no I am no help.

Marmalady as far as I am aware unless they came from Norfolk to London my books wont help.

sandie