Family member possible Jewish heratige

[swillliams]

His dad George was born in kemmerton Gloucestershire in the year 1770 I don’t have a date of death.

Yeah I was going to phone some different libraries but I didn’t want to waste their time. I asked the Pontypridd library for documents for my a lot of different family members but they couldn’t help

[Josephine]

Was your grandfather a descendant of the Gaze and/or Shuker family?

If yes, have you had your DNA done? Sometimes Jewish ancestry will show up if it's not too far back.

For example, through my genealogy research, I discovered that I had a 4th-great-grandfather who was Jewish. He was born sometime around the 1790s. My DNA results say I'm 2% Jewish. (I had already proven it on paper, so I didn't take the DNA test for that reason, but it's fun to have the confirmation.)

[Josephine]

His dad George was born in kemmerton Gloucestershire in the year 1770 I don’t have a date of death.

Yeah I was going to phone some different libraries but I didn’t want to waste their time. I asked the Pontypridd library for documents for my a lot of different family members but they couldn’t help

I think it's easier for the librarian if you write a detailed but concise email outlining exactly what you have and what you're looking for.

For all you know, someone might have written a history of the local Jewish community (if there was one in the right time frame) and it might be easy to check. Or the library might have nothing.

[swillliams]

Yes my grandfathers grandmother was a gaze.

(Great great grandmother) Dorothy gaze 1891 - 1976
(Great grandfather)Kenneth Charles John 1916 - 2000
Grandfather

Charles is the brother of Dorothy

[jimbo50]

Yes my grandfather mentioned they changed their name from shuker to gaze when they moved to wales so that could be the connection

Mary Shuker would have already changed her name (possibly) on marriage to a Glaze. So it is her line I would be targetting. I'm sorry but I don't have any subs to any FH things to help.

[Josephine]

Did George Gaze ("of Churchill") marry Ann Soul (of Kemerton) on 4 May 1789 in Kemerton, Gloucestershire? If so, they were married by banns in an Anglican church.

Churchill, Gloucestershire (or thereabouts) might be as good a place to start as any.

You could contact the email address at the bottom of this page and ask which library would be most appropriate to contact:
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/

[swillliams]

No no don’t worry, Thankyou for the help tho

[swillliams]

Did George Gaze ("of Churchill") marry Ann Soul (of Kemerton) on 4 May 1789 in Kemerton, Gloucestershire? If so, they were married by banns in an Anglican church.

Yea that’s correct, what about if I started to go down the shuker line because it looks like the gaze line may be not Jewish

Churchill, Gloucestershire (or thereabouts) might be as good a place to start as any.

You could contact the email address at the bottom of this page and ask which library would be most appropriate to contact:
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/

[Josephine]

Yes my grandfathers grandmother was a gaze.

(Great great grandmother) Dorothy gaze 1891 - 1976
(Great grandfather)Kenneth Charles John 1916 - 2000
Grandfather

Charles is the brother of Dorothy

So you would be related by blood to any of Charles's descendants. DNA testing might be worth a shot, although the lack of any Jewish results wouldn't rule it out. For example, my Jewish 4th-g-grandfather is on my mother's side. My mother is deceased but her sister did the DNA testing and for the longest time she didn't show any Jewish heritage in her results, until the last update.

Do you know if any descendants of James Gaze and Mary Shuker have done the DNA testing and if they had any Jewish results?