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As promised here is more information on Simeon Rintels family line. There is a very good
website to look up. The site address is
https://portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/pppg5io.htm. I can
expand on the information in there. The Sydney Hebrew Academy referred to in the text
was the first official Jewish school in Australia.
Simeons grand father Meir or Myer Rintel was probably born in or around Krakow in Poland.
His age in the 1841 UK census would make his birth year 1785. His wife Sarah died in
Rogozen , Prussia in 1869 , aged 85. He was a Hebrew author and Talmudic scholar who
was associated with the Dukes Place Synagogue in London. He went to Edinburgh Scotand
sometime around 1820. This has been confirmed by an email from the Jewish archives
in Glasgow. By 1843 Moses Rintel was the Reader at the Brighton Synagogue where he lived
with his mother. A scandal concerning the death of a servant girl in their house ended his time
there. During his five years in Sydney he must have prospered. The newspaper account of his arrival in Melbourne says the he had 19 packets of furniture in the hold of the Velocity.
He married Elvina Hart in Melbourne on the 28th of August 1849. Her family with its roots
in the east end of London where they had slop sellers or dealers in used clothing had been
in Melbourne since 1839. Her cousin Lazarus Hart had arrived in Sydney on the convict
transport York in Feburary of 1831. Her mother , Isabella Beheliah Levy was a direct descendent
of Raphael Moses Levy , one of the most important figures in early American Jewish history.
Her father John served at Trafalgar.
To the best of my knowledge only Simeon and Walter had ongoing lines of descendants.
Simeons uncle Hyam became involved with a man known as the Nunnawading Messiah.
You can look these people up on the internet, especially on the Trove website of the Australian
National Library. It makes fascinating and sometimes funny reading.
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