tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22678334037615166422024-03-05T14:36:37.711+00:00An English Jewish family's quest for their rootsI have for some years had a fascination with tracing our family history.I have unearthed a lot of information and this has prompted me to write a blog about our family and genealogy matters and sources that relate to my searches.An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-69800243997490329312012-03-05T23:33:00.002+00:002012-03-05T23:39:22.723+00:00The Quest is getting back on trackSome time back, one of my excuses for not posting on a regular basis was that I was lazy. Considering that my last post was on 7th September 2011, I wonder what that makes me. There must be a word for being more than just lazy.<br />
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The quest will, therefore, continue. The loss lat week of an aunt aged 96 was a wake up call. In April we will be celebrating her sister's 90th birthday. My mission, therefore, is to drive my cousins mad with requests for information on each of their families, so that I can have a family tree ready for the party. This will only be the descendants of my dad's grandparents.<br />
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I am still working on my mum's family and also my wife Diane's family. Later this month we celebrate our Golden Wedding, so I would like to get as much done as possible on the complete family tree so that we can show our family.<br />
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The URL for this post is <a href="http://ditonb.blogspot.com/2012/03/quest-is-getting-back-on-track.html">http://ditonb.blogspot.com/2012/03/quest-is-getting-back-on-track.html</a><br />
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Tony Benson - Blog EditorAn English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-87000326659452144552011-09-07T22:03:00.000+01:002011-09-07T22:03:42.433+01:00On this day – 7th September<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1775 Jacob Martin (Nunes Martinez) was born to Isaac Moses Martin (Nunes Martinez) and Abigail Mendoza. He married Rebecca Emanuel on 10th January 1796. Jacob was Diane’s 3 x greatgrandfather.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-36488250770492723662011-09-05T21:31:00.000+01:002011-09-05T21:31:07.929+01:00On this day – 5th September<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1862 Jacob Bittan was born to Abraham Bittan and Miriam Solomons. Abraham was the son of Joshua Bittan and Phoebe Martin (Nunes Martinez) who were Diane’s great great grandparents.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-87418554607992995482011-09-03T16:21:00.000+01:002011-09-03T16:21:30.971+01:00Birthdays<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">September is always a busy month for birthdays in our family, especially the first 5 days.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On the 1<sup>st</sup> it was my 75<sup>th</sup> birthday</div><div class="MsoNormal">On the 2<sup>nd</sup> it was my number 2 grandson’s 21<sup>st</sup> birthday</div><div class="MsoNormal">On the 4<sup>th</sup> it will be my middle son’s 45<sup>th</sup> birthday as well as his 3<sup>rd</sup> wedding anniversary</div><div class="MsoNormal">On the 5<sup>th</sup> it will be my oldest son’s 48<sup>th</sup> birthday.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">An expensive time for all the family.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-3108346714101284022011-08-19T14:53:00.000+01:002011-08-19T14:53:34.595+01:00On this day – 19th August<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1912 my father Simon Belson was born to Harry and Dora Belson. Sadly he died in 2002, shortly before his 90<sup>th</sup> birthday.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-45191123200492488882011-08-17T15:01:00.000+01:002011-08-17T15:01:04.165+01:00On this day – 17th August<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">In 1902 Esther Feinson was born in Russia (now part of Poland) to Lewis and Cecilie Feinson. She came to England in 1904/5 with her parents and older brother Jack. She was my mother’s sister.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-18678040959776807992011-08-15T08:32:00.000+01:002011-08-15T08:32:09.522+01:00On this day – 15th August<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1848 Samuel Bittan was born in Spitalfields to Joshua Bittan and Phoebe Martin (Nunes Martinez). He was one of 11 children. He was the brother of Diane’s great grandfather Benjamin.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In1930 Alma Annie Rubinstein was born to Max And Lily Rubinstein. She was Diane’s sister. Alma married Paul Emin and they had 2 children. Alma died on 17 August 1993. She is greatly missed by Diane.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-77452346545831360772011-08-11T15:20:00.001+01:002011-08-11T15:26:24.430+01:00On this day – 11th August<div class="MsoNormal">In 1835 Benjamin Bittan was born in Spitalfields to Joshua Bittan and Phoebe Martin (Nunes Martinez). He was one of 11 children. He was Diane’s great grandfather.</div><div class="MsoNormal">He married Esther Levy on 10 February 1857 at 3 Cope’s Square, Middlesex Street. Their daughter Dinah married Aaron Hart. They had 8 children, one of whom Leah (Lily) was Diane’s mother. </div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-47341412315187862422011-08-10T16:24:00.000+01:002011-08-10T16:24:25.650+01:00It's not all about BloggingI have been very lax with my blog recently.<br />
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In part this is due to watching Sky News on television for far too long over the past 4 days. Many of us have been amazed how these riots have happened and worried that they don't reach our local area. Living in North West London, one realises that it can happen anywhere.<br />
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Another reason is that I have been involved in setting up a new blog called Jewish Ancestors? for which I and the Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB) will be writing posts. This can be found at www.jgsgb.org.uk/blog. It will be worthwhile following.<br />
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The final reason, which is the most likely, is that I am just lazy. <br />
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So from tomorrow I hope to get back on track.An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-57394279713737957902011-07-31T11:00:00.000+01:002011-07-31T11:00:17.459+01:00MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">The only thing I have of any of my grandparent’s possessions, apart from a few photos, is my maternal grandmother’s Identity or Aliens Book.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This was probably issued to her in 1914 at the start of the First World War. According to this she was unable to write and signed it with a cross and a thumbprint. Whether she was actually unable to write anything, or just unable to write in English we will never know. The Book was also used after the war and during World War 2.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">According to her Book she was born Cecelie Walbaum to Woolf and Sara Walbaum in Bialystok in Russia (now in Poland) probably in 1877. She married Lewis Feinson in about 1899 in Russia and came to England in about 1904 with her husband and 2 children. My mother the youngest child was born in England, as were 2 other children.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">How they got to England I do not know, but in all probability they came by boat via Libau in Latvia or Hamburg in Germany.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Again according to her Book she came to England on a Russian passport, number 2176, issued by the Russian Police in Bialystok in 1904.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Aliens were required to register with their local police every time they left the area overnight and register with the local police in the area they were staying.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The 1911 Census shows the family living at 56 Lindon Buildings, Bethnal Green. In 1912 when my mother was born, they were living at 7 Whitby Street, Bethnal Green. In 1934 the family moved to 50 Graham Road, Dalston, London, E8 and in September 1940 my grandparents moved to 34 Springfield Road, Windsor where my parents and I also lived. On 8<sup>th</sup> December 1940 my grandmother was given permission to visit 50 Graham Road until 14<sup>th</sup> December.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She died on 18<sup>th</sup> December 1940 in the King Edward Vll Hospital in Windsor from Cerebral Haemorrhage and Hypertension, when I was 4 years old.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-32853429695526667602011-07-21T16:56:00.000+01:002011-07-21T16:56:16.729+01:00On this day - 21st July1940 - My brother Michael Jeffrey was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital, Hampton, Twickenham, Middlesex. At the time, my parents and I were living at 150 King Edward Road, Hachney, London, E9.<br />
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Michael was very ill from birth and eventually died on 8th June 1941, aged just 10 months, in the County Council Emergency Hospital, Old Windsor. The cause of death is recorded as:<br />
1 (a) Cardiac failure<br />
(b) TB Meningitis<br />
2 TB Broncho Pneumonia<br />
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At the time of Michael's death we were living at 34 Sprinfield Road, Windsor wth my grandfather on my mum's side. My grandmother having died on 18th December 1940. It must have been a very painful time for my mother.An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-33414800444730323422011-07-13T13:59:00.000+01:002011-07-13T13:59:32.044+01:00HOW THE INTERNET BEGAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I know that one shouldn't plagiarise, but as I don't know where this originated from, I thought that I would take the liberty of posting it.<br />
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With apologies for offending anyone and everyone. Remember it is only a bit of fun.<br />
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<div> <div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ecxMsoNormalTable"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div class="ecxMsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot.</span></strong><b><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">tent?" And Abraham did look at her - as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load - but simply said, "How, dear?"</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. The drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.</span></strong></span></b></div></div></div><div> <div> <div class="ecxMsoNormal"><br />
</div></div></div><div> <div> <div class="ecxMsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">To prevent neighbouring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was called Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures: Hebrew To The People (HTTP). But this success did arouse envy.</span></strong><b><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">A man named Maccabia did secrete himself inside Abraham's drum and began to siphon off some of Abraham's business. But he was soon discovered, arrested and prosecuted for insider trading.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. And he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drum heads and drumsticks.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Lo, Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others!" And as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known, he said, "We need a name that reflects what we are." And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything(GOOGLE)</span></strong></span></b></div></div></div><div> <div> <div class="ecxMsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">And that is how it all began.</span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></div><div> <div class="ecxMsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">On the 16<sup>th</sup> April my wife Diane’s Aunty Milly died aged 98. She was Diane’s dad’s youngest sister. 8 weeks later on the 11<sup>th</sup> June her husband Jack died.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Milly and Jack originally met and fell in love in the early 1930s. However, the path of true love never runs smoothly. Milly’s parents did not approve of Jack because he was only a butcher. In those days, unlike today, girls didn’t very often go against their parents wishes, and in 1936, aged 24, Milly married Morry who was a tailor and whose parents had a menswear shop.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jack was always a close friend of the family and Diane always referred to him as Uncle Jack. When I joined the family and called him Jack, he very quickly put me right and said it’s Uncle Jack to you. Jack was at our wedding, our three sons’ barmitzvahs and weddings.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1984 Uncle Morry died</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Even though she was now free to marry “Uncle” Jack, she wouldn’t whilst Diane’s dad was still alive. He died in January 1989.and later that year Milly and Jack married, over 50 years after they first fell in love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">During the last few years they were in an old age home together, always arguing but still very much in love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When Milly died, Jack couldn’t carry on without her.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-26900274858376805482011-07-07T08:35:00.000+01:002011-07-07T08:35:49.115+01:00On this day - 6th July1712 - Abraham Rodriques-Ribera married Paloma Mizrahi at Bevis Marks Synagogue. He was born in 1690 He was Diane's 6 x great grandfather on her mother's maternal side.An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-43444969273681914002011-07-02T22:25:00.000+01:002011-07-02T22:25:14.761+01:00On this day – 2nd July<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1837 Abraham Bittan was born to Joshua Bittan and Esther Martin (Nunes Martinez). He was one of 11 children. His brother Benjamin was Diane’s greatgrandfather on her mother’s maternal side.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-9682469236187869682011-07-02T17:33:00.000+01:002011-07-02T17:33:53.642+01:00On this day – 1st July<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1838 Moses Hart died. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was Diane’s 2 x great grandfather on her mother’s paternal side..</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-68770285507852156812011-06-29T23:12:00.000+01:002011-06-29T23:12:54.980+01:00COINCIDENCE<div class="MsoNormal">Looking in the diary, I noticed that a year ago (or to be precise 52 weeks ago on Sunday) we attended the wedding of the daughter of close friends.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The wedding ceremony (Chupa) took place in an Orthodox Synagogue in North West London. The Chupa was a wonderful occasion and the Rabbi in his speech to the newlyweds managed to bring in the disappointment the whole country felt at England being knocked out of the World Cup by Germany.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After the Chupa we then had to drive to the outskirts of North London to a restaurant where the reception and dinner and dance were being held.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was a very hot day and the reception was held in the open air.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Following the reception we all (about 120) went to the function room which was above the restaurant. </div><div class="MsoNormal">We were seated at round tables of 10, and all those on our table were friends we had known for over 30 years. Unfortunately one couple couldn’t make it because of illness so the table was only set for 8.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We were having our starter, when the head waiter came over and asked my wife Diane if she minded if they put someone next her as we had room on our table. Obviously Diane said to was ok.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We were then joined by, to me, a young woman in her early 40’s named Lisa. She explained to Diane that she lived in Brighton, and that a friend of hers, who was a friend of the bridegroom, had been invited with her son. The son couldn’t make it, and she had asked Lisa to go with her so that she wouldn’t have to travel on her own. It so happened that the son was supposed to sit on the children’s table and that’s why Lisa ended up next to Diane.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My wife, always on the look out to matchmake, although our 3 sons are all married, asked Lisa about herself. She said that she was a widow with 2 teenage daughters and found it very hard to meet Jewish men in Brighton. She stayed in Brighton only because her parents lived there.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hearing part of the conversation, a sudden thought passed my mind. I leaned across and asked Lisa what her surname was. The answer she gave meant nothing to me. I then asked what her maiden name was. The answer was Feinson, and I replied that her dad Paul was my first cousin and that Paul’s dad and my mum were brother and sister. Lisa immediately phoned her dad, who I hadn’t seen for a few years.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I know it’s a long story, but the amazing think is that she could have been put on any table and anywhere on our table.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-19829887921260514232011-06-21T21:33:00.000+01:002011-06-21T21:33:48.682+01:00On this day – 21st June<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In 1857 Joshua Bittan was born in Stepney to Abraham Bittan and Miriam Solomons. He was a Cigar Maker and later a General Dealer in Clothing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Joshua married Esther Martin at Bevis Marks Synagogue on 8<sup>th</sup> August 1876.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In 1883 Joshua and his family moved to New York and 2 of his 8 children were born in New York. By 1901 the family was back in London.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Joshua’s uncle Benjamin is Diane’s Great Grandfather on her mother’s maternal side.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-23950312630245350972011-06-16T08:53:00.000+01:002011-06-16T08:53:26.696+01:00On this day – 16th June<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In 1819 Eve Joshua married John Isaacs at the Hambro Synagogue, London. They had 3 children, Isaac, Elizabeth and Leah.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I believe that Eve and John were Diane’s 2 x great grandparents on her mother’s paternal side.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-30937428319571662672011-06-11T08:31:00.001+01:002011-07-09T10:18:59.360+01:00On this day - 11th June<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">My sister Carole was born in Slough, Bucks. I am too much of a gentleman to say which year.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-29132304926454815652011-06-08T07:50:00.003+01:002011-06-12T10:04:39.796+01:00On this day – 8th June<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b>In 1891</b> Dora Godalski was born, at home at 44 Brick Lane, Mile End, to Solomon Godalski and Yetta Miller. She was one of eleven children.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In the 1901 census she is shown living with her parents and her 10 brothers and sisters at 106 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool..</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In the 1911 census she was back in Whitechapel, London with her mother and 2 brothers and 3 sisters. Her father died in 1910 and 2 brothers and 3 sisters were married.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">She married Harry Belson on 25<sup>th</sup> April 1925. Their first child Simon was my father. They had 5 children in total.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">My grandfather Harry died in 1947 and my grandmother remarried. She died about 1955.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b>In 1941</b> my brother Michael Jeffrey Belson died of TB aged 10 months. I was 4 years old at the time and have no recollection of him and my parents never ever mentioned him to me, or my sister.</div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-3840629026708056282011-06-05T23:39:00.000+01:002011-06-05T23:39:42.245+01:00We are the SurvivorsThis is a blog for those born before 1940 in the UK and was passed to me by a friend. A lot has changed since this was originally written.<br />
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We were born before television, before penicillin, polio shots, frozen food, Xerox, cotantact lenses, videos, DVD's, frisbees, freebies and the pill. We lived before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and the ball-point pens, before dishwashers, tumble dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes and before man walked on the moon.<br />
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We got married first and then lived together. We thought a "Big Mac" was an oversized raincoat and crumpet we had for tea. We existed before house husbands, computer dating and dual careers; when a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins and sheltered accommodation was where you waited for a bus.<br />
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We were before day care centres, group homes and disposable nappies. We had never heard of FM radio, electric typewriters, electric typewriters, word processors or computers. Nor artificial hearts or yoghourt and young men wearring earings. For us "time sharing" meant togetherness, a chip was a piece of wood or a fried potato, hardware meant nuts and bolts, and software wasn't a word.<br />
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Before 1940 "Made in Japan" meant junk, the term "making out" referred to how you did in your exams, a stud was something that fastened a collar to a shirt, and "going all the way" meant staying on the double decker bus until it reached the depot. Pizza, McDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable, grass was mown, coke was kept in the coal house, a joint was a piece of meat and a pot was something you cooked it in.A gay person was the life and soul of the party and nothing more, and aids just meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.<br />
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We who were born before 1940 must be a hardy bunch when you think of the ways in which the world has changed and the adjustments we have had to make. No wonder we are so confused and there is a generation gap.<br />
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But we have survived.An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-13098879525625264432011-06-04T11:34:00.001+01:002011-06-04T11:36:37.222+01:00On this day – 4th June<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WFJxOOWDbwQ3zfVdPtojUA57AKTslIgnxVcDMObY6vkdT02XbpyWmjMEA8ghKiLctkmUymN9A2Ef-rGlefRX0FNtaXIXljsJHEgmYkxAij37eHDQdZsb0ZcbndtUsM0DKnZQh1aM2ww/s1600/img43-1-67-96.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WFJxOOWDbwQ3zfVdPtojUA57AKTslIgnxVcDMObY6vkdT02XbpyWmjMEA8ghKiLctkmUymN9A2Ef-rGlefRX0FNtaXIXljsJHEgmYkxAij37eHDQdZsb0ZcbndtUsM0DKnZQh1aM2ww/s1600/img43-1-67-96.jpg" t8="true" /></a></div>In 1861 <b>Sarah Betan (Bittan)</b> was born in Whitechapel to Joshua Betan (Bittan) and Phoebe Martin (Nunes Martinez). She was the youngest of 11 children and was the sister of Benjamin Bittan who is my wife Diane’s maternal great grandfather.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">She married Abraham (Alfred) Levy on 9<sup>th</sup> March 1880 at the Princes Street Synagogue, London. They had 7 children</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In the 1891 & 1901 census’s she is shown as living with husband and children at 84 Oxford Street, Whitechapel and in 1911 living at 20 Alderney Road, Mile End. London.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Sarah died on 15<sup>th</sup> January 1912, aged 51, in London. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Jewish Chronicle Announcements on her death-</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Levy -- In ever loving memory of our darling wife and mother Sarah Levy who departed this life on Jan 15th 1912. Gone but not forgotten. G-d rest her dear soul in peace. Amen. From her ever loving husband, Abraham, daughter and son, Fanny and Sam 20 Alderney road, Mile End E.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Levy - in ever loving and lasting memory of my darling mother Sarah Levy who passed away on Jan 15th 1912. Sadly missed by her son, daughter in law and grandchildren. May G-d rest her dear soul in peace. Amen - Mr. Ralph Levy 77 Harford street, Mile End, E.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Levy - In ever loving memory of my dearly beloved mother Sarah Levy who departed this life on Jan 15th 1912, Sadly missed by her daughter, son in law and grandchildren. May G-d rest her dear soul in peace amen - Mrs. N. Crabb 44 Great Queen St. Kingsway WC.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Levy - in ever loving memory of my dearly beloved mother Sarah Levy who departed this life on Jan 15th 1912. Sadly missed by her daughter Dinah. May G-d rest her dear soul in peace Amen, Mrs. G. Cohn 148 W. 143rd street NYC USA. American papers please copy.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Levy - in ever loving memory of my darling mother Sarah Levy who passed away Jan 15th 1912, Deeply mourned by her loving daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Lazarus, 35 British Street, Bow</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">With many thanks to Brian Whipp and his family history website which can be found at <a href="http://www.whippfamily.co.uk/">http://www.whippfamily.co.uk/</a> </div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-89841790787570144972011-05-28T17:44:00.001+01:002011-05-28T17:45:52.673+01:00Even less to do with Genealogy<span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><br />
<div style="background: #f5f6f8; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: #1010ff 1.5pt solid; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><h2 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: auto 36pt auto 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This was sent to me by a friend. It's not new, but in view of the defence cutbacks etc in the UK and the money we are spending on Libya it is quite relevant. It represents a very cynical view of what goes on in the Civil Service</span></span></h2><h2 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: auto 36pt auto 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Vision of the future - </span><strong><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">It's 2038. HMS Indefensible has been handed over to the Royal Navy...</span></strong></h2><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><strong><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmgJb5eEZJXQihrn-W3pFJl-D9rgfRKs8xYmOTE2v__ayGyI5cW_g0IgxWd_jQHs4vi1pLRGFfjFXndUzmE3eY1TPXsGK3-hb1XQPfkUuIQqasF2PvxdZsUIGloWPL4ZGZ5QYuXYTwJs/s1600/untitled.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmgJb5eEZJXQihrn-W3pFJl-D9rgfRKs8xYmOTE2v__ayGyI5cW_g0IgxWd_jQHs4vi1pLRGFfjFXndUzmE3eY1TPXsGK3-hb1XQPfkUuIQqasF2PvxdZsUIGloWPL4ZGZ5QYuXYTwJs/s320/untitled.bmp" t8="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Today in a grand ceremony at Portsmouth dockyard HMS Indefensible was commissioned into the Royal Navy. Described as the most stealthy warship in the world, she is now the only vessel in the Royal Navy and replaces 2 mothballed aircraft carriers, 6 destroyers and 4 submarines. Responding to criticism about the shrinking fleet, the MoD replied "<em>It's not about numbers, it's about quality not quantity. HMS Indefensible represents a revolution in naval procurement, stealthy, light and agile she will provide a highly flexible platform. She is invisible to radar and almost immune to torpedo or missile attack. Her shallow draft makes her ideal for work in the littoral (coastal) areas. She is also highly efficient with virtually zero carbon emissions and zero fuel consumption "</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Admiral Sir James Bland added "<em>She is ready to respond instantly to events and can be deployed to trouble spots anywhere in the world. The RAF have promised to fly her to wherever she's needed provided (1)They are not busy (2)The weather is OK (3)There is a large airfield provided by a friendly foreign nation close by</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Constructed by Britain 's only ship builder BVATe Systems in Birmingham , taking 8 years to build, and costing just £1.5 Billion she is a triumph of British engineering. Her forward section was built in China in 2 weeks and then shipped to the UK . The forward section was then joined to the stern built in Birmingham and the complex technical systems installed. However the programme was not all plain sailing and has not been without its problems "<em>The original design included an outboard motor but early in the building process the Treasury insisted cost savings had to be made so out went the motor. After some time spent on computer-modelling and research we selected oars</em>" said a BVATe spokesperson.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Although £1.2 Billion over-budget and 3 years late, Secretary of State for Defence, William Bragg says we can all be proud "<em>The Type 48 programme has sustained 10,000 British manufacturing jobs in addition to 30,000 civil servants in the MoD project team. She will represent the leading edge of British manufacturing wherever she goes and is worth every penny</em>" Bragg is also says he is hoping to see export orders soon although as yet there has been little interest.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Some observers have commented that her lack of any armament could be a problem but the MoD answered robustly "<em>The Foreign Office advised us that carrying weapons can be seen as provocative and that actually firing a weapon at someone would definitely infringe their human rights. We considered this advice at an early stage in the design process and together with the fabulous cost-savings, the case for having no armament was overwhelming</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Her commanding officer, Commander Rupert Tubworthy-Pollock said <em>"To be selected from the 1,200 officers still serving in the RN for the only seagoing command available is a great privilege. Bringing her out of build and into commission has been a huge challenge but I'm confident she will prove to be a great asset".</em></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">With a crew of just 2, she is a fine example of lean-manning, reducing running costs and lessening the RN's recruitment headaches. Her crew, AB "soapy" Watson said "<em>On my last ship I had to share the mess with 40 other men but on the new Type 48 sharing is far a less of a problem. As I'm now the only rating in the Royal Navy I have a lot of responsibility</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">HMS Indefensible is expected to complete sea trials shortly, go to Plymouth for Operational Sea Training, have a short refit in Rosyth and then and be deployed as part of the new Euro-Navy task force.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Today in a grand ceremony at Portsmouth dockyard HMS Indefensible was commissioned into the Royal Navy. Described as the most stealthy warship in the world, she is now the only vessel in the Royal Navy and replaces 2 mothballed aircraft carriers, 6 destroyers and 4 submarines. Responding to criticism about the shrinking fleet, the MoD replied "<em>It's not about numbers, it's about quality not quantity. HMS Indefensible represents a revolution in naval procurement, stealthy, light and agile she will provide a highly flexible platform. She is invisible to radar and almost immune to torpedo or missile attack. Her shallow draft makes her ideal for work in the littoral (coastal) areas. She is also highly efficient with virtually zero carbon emissions and zero fuel consumption "</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Admiral Sir James Bland added "<em>She is ready to respond instantly to events and can be deployed to trouble spots anywhere in the world. The RAF have promised to fly her to wherever she's needed provided (1)They are not busy (2)The weather is OK (3)There is a large airfield provided by a friendly foreign nation close by</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Constructed by Britain 's only ship builder BVATe Systems in Birmingham , taking 8 years to build, and costing just £1.5 Billion she is a triumph of British engineering. Her forward section was built in China in 2 weeks and then shipped to the UK . The forward section was then joined to the stern built in Birmingham and the complex technical systems installed. However the programme was not all plain sailing and has not been without its problems "<em>The original design included an outboard motor but early in the building process the Treasury insisted cost savings had to be made so out went the motor. After some time spent on computer-modelling and research we selected oars</em>" said a BVATe spokesperson.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Although £1.2 Billion over-budget and 3 years late, Secretary of State for Defence, William Bragg says we can all be proud "<em>The Type 48 programme has sustained 10,000 British manufacturing jobs in addition to 30,000 civil servants in the MoD project team. She will represent the leading edge of British manufacturing wherever she goes and is worth every penny</em>" Bragg is also says he is hoping to see export orders soon although as yet there has been little interest.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Some observers have commented that her lack of any armament could be a problem but the MoD answered robustly "<em>The Foreign Office advised us that carrying weapons can be seen as provocative and that actually firing a weapon at someone would definitely infringe their human rights. We considered this advice at an early stage in the design process and together with the fabulous cost-savings, the case for having no armament was overwhelming</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Her commanding officer, Commander Rupert Tubworthy-Pollock said <em>"To be selected from the 1,200 officers still serving in the RN for the only seagoing command available is a great privilege. Bringing her out of build and into commission has been a huge challenge but I'm confident she will prove to be a great asset".</em></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">With a crew of just 2, she is a fine example of lean-manning, reducing running costs and lessening the RN's recruitment headaches. Her crew, AB "soapy" Watson said "<em>On my last ship I had to share the mess with 40 other men but on the new Type 48 sharing is far a less of a problem. As I'm now the only rating in the Royal Navy I have a lot of responsibility</em>".</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="NormalWeb1" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 11.25pt; margin: 0cm 36pt 0pt 3.75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #1010FF 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b246f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">HMS Indefensible is expected to complete sea trials shortly, go to Plymouth for Operational Sea Training, have a short refit in Rosyth and then and be deployed as part of the new Euro-Navy task force.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div></div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267833403761516642.post-8034930757100855572011-05-28T11:49:00.002+01:002011-05-28T12:42:43.000+01:00Nothing to do with Genealogy<span style="color: black; font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Someone sent me this today. For us that are from the "older" generation it all rings true</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ain't it a shame that WE were not GREEN when we were kids?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-top: 5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. </span></div></div></blockquote></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The woman apologi</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ed to him and explained, “We didn't have the green thing back in my day."<br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: navy;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back then, they returned their milk bottles, </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">soft drink</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> bottles and beer bottles to the store. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterili</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ed and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back then, they washed the baby's </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">nappies</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">4</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">0 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But that old lady is right; they didn't have the green thing back in her day.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">wall</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> .. <br />
In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.<br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">petrol</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.<br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But she's right; they didn't have the green thing back then.<br />
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They drank from a </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">bubbler</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.<br />
</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But they didn't have the green thing back then.<br />
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Back then, people took the </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">train</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their m</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">u</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ms into a 24-hour taxi service. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">And they didn't need a computeri</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ed gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.<br />
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But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>An English Jewish Family's search for their rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638000576496905466noreply@blogger.com2