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Subject: [SEPHARDIM] Fwd: {not a subscriber} Re: England and Sephardim including Assimilation, Marrano and Migration/Emigration
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 01:11:43 +0000

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From: "Celia Millington-Wyckoff" <>
To: "Donalyn Snelling" <>,
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Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: England and Sephardim including
Assimilation, Marrano and Migration/Emigration
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:17:24 -0600

Donalyn,

This looks like absolutely fascinating reading. My FERRIS family came from
Greenwich, Kent, England. (Was there a Sephardic community in that part of
England?) They migrated to Connecticut in 1634, then my direct line went on
to Cincinnati in 1799 (called Losantiville at that time).

I believe the father of Jeffrey, my first FERRIS ancestor in America, was a
member of the Court when the family was still in England. Am I correct in
thinking (I believe I read this somewhere) that crypto-Jews were often found
as members of the Court in England?

A very close friend who is Jewish tells me that the American novelist E.L.
Doctorow wrote in one of his books (probably "Ragtime") that the inventor of
the Ferris Wheel was Jewish. He (George Washington Gale Ferris) and I
descend from Jeffrey Ferris' son James.

Best, and thanks for this most fascinating piece. Keep 'em coming!

Celia Millington-Wyckoff
State College, PA, USA

On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:14:20 +0000
"Donalyn Snelling" <> wrote:
>Cheers All!
>
>This is the first of a series of locality-specific links I'll be
>introducing to our Sephardim List and archiving for later Sephardim List
>website development. You may also wish to archive them yourselves or just
>check the Sephardim List archives as needed (they'll be searchable by
>country, locality and/or subject). All are welcome and encouraged to
>donate to this goal by the posting of an introduction of material and URL
>link to the List.
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>England and Sephardim-
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>I've been reading the online thesis of the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser on
>the topic of the Jews of South-West England, in particular the localities
>of Devon and Cornwall. It is a most interesting, detailed study of both
>Ashkenazi and Sephardic business dealing, migration, residency and
>emigration in this area. It references other parts of England, France,
>Bohemia, Morocco, Germany and other emigration points and includes
>migration of pioneering Sephardim in the United States including
>Cincinnati. It describes the assimilation of the Jews and their name and
>cultural changes. Although it deals primarily with those ethnic Jews with
>known, if not practicing, Jewish customs and those surnames of obvious
>origin, it richly provides much insight on our Sephardim ancestors, both
>culturally and geographically specific.
>
>The URL is
>http://www.eclipse.co.uk/exeshul/susser/thesis/thesisacknowledgements.htm .
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>Sephardim names include:
>
>Ancient names within the thesis include Deulesalt [i.e. Dieu-le-saut, May
>God save him - the French translation of the Hebrew name Isaiah.], Copin,
>Moses le Turk and others. Early singular male names include Amiot,
>Bonenfant, Bonefey, Deudon, Deulecresse, and Deulegard and female names
>include Amit, Nona, Chre, Ivot, and Juetta, mostly seemingly of French
>Sephardic origin.
>
>Later names after 1656 include Treves, Franks, Franco, Gutteres, Ximenes,
>Cohen, Lopes, Sebag, Lousada, Pereira, Joseph, Rodriguez, Woolf,
>Montefiore, Mocatta, Dacosta, Doliveira and others. In the 1800s, names
>include:
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>"Moses ben Solomon Delavayo, Moses ben Hayyim Portuguese, a Turk called
>Jacob ben Joseph Portuguese, Jacob ben Shalom Mogadore, [He married a
>daughter of a Plymouth Jew called Benjamin Levy (PHC A/c. 1821, pericope
>Miketz).] and an unnamed person from Madagascar."
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>Ashkenasic names include:
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>Lyons, Hirsch, Solomon, Nathan, Lawrenson, Cohen, >Mordecai, Wolf and many
>others including:
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>"David, Levy and Mordecai Abrahams (5, 52, 51);
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>Emanuel Cohen and David Jacob Coppel (58, 9);
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>Eleazer, Moses and Solomon Emdin (4, 15, 6);
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>Aaron and Levi Jacobs (12, 13);
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>Israel Jacobs (38) and a Nathan Jacobs of Dartmouth;
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>Joseph and Mordecai Levy (16, 4);
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>Abraham and Jacob Simon (1, 27)."
>
>Specific to the Sephardim, a quick overview link of them and their
>South-West England ties within the thesis is provided as
>http://www.eclipse.co.uk/exeshul/susser/thesis/thesischaptertwopartone.htm
>.
>
>Shalom,
>
>Donalyn
>Rootsweb Sephardim List Admin.
>
>Note: Some mentioned names may be either Sephardic or Ashkenazi. Although
>efforts were generally made to separate these names, all Hebrew-based names
>should be checked within the thesis for origin.
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>Courtesy copy: Rootsweb British Jewery
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