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Offline djm297

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Re: Levi children baptised around 20 years old
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 01 May 21 13:50 BST (UK) »
Similar from Newcastle Courant 22 Aug 1772-

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000085%2f17720822%2f009&stringtohighlight=levi

In Leeds a Jewish merchant-Moses Levi married Mrs Gordon and immediately after the ceremony "embraced Christianity and was publically baptized".

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Re: Levi children baptised around 20 years old
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 01 May 21 14:24 BST (UK) »
Come across an Ann Levi while searching, baptised (CofE) at 30yrs, Wakefield 1813. Not sure if this is part of my tree yet
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2252/images/32355_248842-01312


Also found this article on Britannica of the changes within the Jewish faith around 1800.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judaism/Religious-reform-movements




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NORTON (Kent), KEECH (Dorset), MOOR / MOORE (Kent), HOCKING (Dorset / Somerset), LEVI (City of York), SANDWELL (Kent), CHAFFIN  (Dorset / Somerset), STRONG (Dorset)
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