Tombstone Tuesday: Hannah Benjamin (nee Jacobs) (1854-1912)

Plashet Cemetery, Manor Park, London

Tombstone Tuesday: Ellen Jacobs (nee Silverstone) (c1835 - 1913)

Plashet Cemetery, Manor Park, London 

David Albert (Bertie) JACOBS (1892-1969)

So, by 1901 Emma JACOBS (nee Brown) and her 4 children were living with George ROBINSON in Acton, West London. Also living there is Phyllis May ROBINSON. She is listed as the daughter of George ROBINSON and almost certainly Emma was her mother. Research indicates that Phyllis was born on 1st April 1900 but the birth does not seem to have been registered.

GEDmatch.com

Although I have made many contacts through 23andMe none of them have, so far, been able to identify who our common ancestors were. But...

More DNA Test Results

I recently had my full DNA tested by 23andMe and the results have now come through. They confirm the results I had with Sorenson but go much further: both in the amount of detail and also by providing a family finder profile.

John TILLETT (1834-1905)

John TILLETT is one of my ancestral heroes. Born the son of a Norfolk miller, he went to sea and travelled the world - the story of his travels is told by his numerous campaign medals.

David Albert (Bertie) JACOBS (1892-1969)

For some reason I always miss my father's birthday. In fact he was born on 29th January 1892 at 190 High Holborn, London to David JACOBS and Emma BROWN, who had been married in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1887.

Charles Newnham (1838-?)

Charles Newnham is one of my mystery people. He was born in Chatham, Kent and baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Chatham on 9th December 1838. He appears in the 1841 and 1851 Census living in Woolwich with his parents, John and Frances Newnham. After that there is no sign of him. I have checked later censuses, army and navy records, passenger lists, and marriage records, and local burial registers without success. There are some possible matches in the death records but in different parts of Kent and no obvious connection to him. If you have him in your family tree I would be very interested to hear from you.

Ruby Lilian Adeline Newnham (1917-2012)

My dear mother passed away on 21st August, aged 95. Her ashes have been interred in her parents' grave in Gillingham, Kent. Please remember her in your prayers.

Frances Mezaler Mallery (c1811-1899)

Further information has recently come to light which seems to settle the spelling of Frances Mallery's middle name.

On this day ... 16th June

Baptism: 1681 Sarah Blackwen, Shearsby, Leicestershire (6x great great-aunt)
1833 Harriet Brown, Stalbridge, Dorset (2nd cousin 3x removed)

1886 Sidney Arthur Dorrington, Christ Church, East Greenwich, Kent (1st cousin 2x removed)

Marriage: 1909 Alfred James Smythe & Ethel May Meehan, Christ Church, East Greenwich, Kent (2nd cousin 3x removed)

Death: 1924 Alfred James Tuck, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (great-aunt's husband)

Hannah Harris (c1810-1849) & Jacob Silverstone (1790-1878)

My 2x great-grandmother, Hannah Harris, was born about 1810. She married Jacob Silverstone (born Warsaw, Poland in 1790), probably in London, some time before 1833 when she gave birth to the first of three girls: Frances, to be followed in 1835 (app) by Ellen and in 1837 by Rosa.

Those Places Thursday - Mulbarton, Norfolk

St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton

Birth place of John Tillett (1834-1905). His father, Thomas Tillett (1800-1855), was a miller here in the 1830s.

Reuben Newnham (1855-1922)

Reuben Newnham (1855-1922) in 1905

There is long-standing story in the Newnham family that Reuben was either Jewish or had Jewish connections.

On this day ... 12 May

Birth: 1797 Elizabeth Fancy, Hampreston, Dorset (1st Cousin, 4x removed)

Baptism: 1822 George Langton, Cosby, Leicestershire (2x great great-uncle)

Miscellaneous: 1865 Jacob Silverstone took part in the procession for the laying of the corner stone at the new K K Bene Yeshurun Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio (2x great grandfather)
1902 William Henry Sydney Langton was discharged from Hertford Workhouse "To service with Mr H C Wiltsher", a greengrocer trading as Wiltsher & Son at 1 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford. (great-uncle)

Y-DNA

About 3 years ago I had my Y-DNA tested with GeneTree. I had no idea whether the results would be useful but it was something I wanted to have done.

Simon Levy (c1760-1827)

Simon, my 3x great grandfather, is a "work in progress", particularly as a definite birth date has not yet been established. He died on 30th Jan 1827 at No 13 Charles Street (now renamed Soho Street), a short street which runs from Oxford Street to Soho Square. He was buried in the Brompton Jewish Cemetery at Queen Elm on the Fulham Road.

On this day ... 2nd May

Born: 1890 Daisy Emma Dorrington (1st cousin 2x removed), Greenwich, Kent;

Baptised: 1819 Robert Stone (2nd cousin 3x removed), Portland, Dorset;

1819 William Langton (2x great grandfather), Cosby, Leicestershire;

1855 Frederick James Walker (1st cousin 4x removed), Greenwich, Kent;

1860 Emma Catherine Porter (great-great aunt), Greenwich, Kent;

Married: 1871 Alfred Hugh Syndercombe and Elizabeth Sarah Jager, Greenwich, Kent

Died: 1867 Milcah Levi (1st cousin 4x removed), Islington, Middlesex;

1888 Jane Fancy (nee Rodd) (2x great grandmother), Portland, Dorset

Buried: 1739 Rebecca Attwooll (1st cousin 6 times removed), Portland, Dorset

John Hale Pearson & Julia Browne

John Hale Pearson (died 18 March 1880) and Julia Pearson, nee Browne (died 22 November 1879), Wreningham, Norfolk

Have you seen ... Stephen Walker?

Modern Stowage, from the tower of St Nicholas Church

My Stephen Walker first appears in Deptford in 1805, married to Elizabeth. Between 1805 and 1818 Stephen and Elizabeth had 6 children baptised at St Nicholas Church: Eliza (1805), Ellis (1807), Robert (1810 - buried 1811), Ann Maria (1812), James Robert (1815) and Frederick William (1818). Stephen died in 1833 and the burial register records his age as 62 thus putting his birth around 1771.