Arthur Isaacs and family late 1800s

[brigidmac]

Have you looked for alien registration documents...not easy to find but some have photos and addresses on them .

We paid local records office to find my great grandfather s
He was traveling salesman so had to register with police every time he changed address

[maddys52]

And is ‘Goodman’ a sort of honorific?

Goodman was not an uncommon given name (though more common as a surname). Certainly appears in another Jewish family I have researched. 

[maddys52]

Wonder why our mum nor the other Isaac/Healey children EVER mentioned any of this. She never spoke in any meaningful detail about any of it just that Arthur was her father, Polish/Russian and he died in 1931 from a heart attack.

If, as you say, Arthur and Louisa were separated in the 1920s/1930s, there was still quite a bit of stigma about failed marriages. Perhaps this, and as you say the possibility of family disapproval, explains why your mother didn't speak of it. My mother always told me that her father had died when she was an infant, it was only many many years later that I discovered he had abandoned the family. This was in the early 1930s.

[brigidmac]

Some of my lot who ended up in USA also put born England on documents .that may partly be due to initial question on immigration document ... where are you from ? Has ambiguous meaning ..but more probably it was easier to get naturalization papers if they said born in England.
Also because borders changed some people were born in a country which became different country so it was simpler just to say England.
Naturalization documents worth getting hold of but only as accurate as informant wanted to be ...

[MillieBB]

Morning All
Firstly as lots of you were so fantastic in helping me trace Arthur Isaac and Louisa Healey’s background and Ancestors I wondered if you could help with another family “secret”

When Arthur died in 1931 he was living in Bristol.  The rest of the family were in London.  When he died in his lodgings from a sudden and massive heart attack it was his landlord who reported his death.
Louisa, as far as we can tell did not attend the funeral.

So, the question is, why was Arthur in Bristol working as a door to door brush salesman. I’m sure if he was so desperate for a career change there would have been such opportunities in London.

My sister and I just cannot fathom why he was there and why my mum, who idolised her father, never spoke of this.

Be very grateful if anyone can help.  Incidentally at this time, the rest of the family had changed their surname to Wilson.

Thanks in anticipation everyone