Eugenie Bruce-green

[ibbotson]

Eugenie Bruce-green, b 1921 is on a register along with Minnie Mansell and others. Could anyone please assist with details.

[CaroleW]

Eugenie Bruce-green, b 1921 is on a register

What register?

[ibbotson]

Not sure if I can say, but 193?

[heywood]

If you have seen it, you can mention it.

The transcription on Ancestry is very poor and difficult search. FindMyPast might be different.

Eugenia appears several times in Electorall registers.

[CaroleW]

The 1939 register indexed as Bauce Green and Minnie Munsell

Probably lodgings as none of the other names seem to have any relation to each other

[ibbotson]

It does seem strange that she is shown as Bruce-green becouse she did not marry Norman Bruce-green until 1942 in Newcastle. She was a Mansell and I believe Minnie was her mother, (maiden name Cohen?) I now see there seems to be a Silvan Mansell, b, 1907 on the 1939 with her.

[Bookbox]

The register was updated with changes of surname etc. up to 1991.

[ibbotson]

OK thank you, understand now.

[avm228]

I suspect Silvan (b 19 Dec 1907, d Mar qtr 1970 Worthing) started life as Silvan Mandel in East London, son of Albert Isaac Mandel & Minnie - birth reg Mar qtr 1908 St George East, mother’s maiden name Cohen.

Both parents appear to have been born in Romania, as was their eldest child - suggesting they probably also married there.

Perhaps in due course the family’s surname Mandel was changed to Mansell in order to assimilate?