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Hi Everyone,
I've just registered after finding this website in a book that I've just read, called "The Daddy of all Mysteries". So some of your usernames feel almost famous to me !
I'm struggling to find the birth of Louis Davis (deceased). The story is that he came to England from Russia with his brother and on arrival they were given different surnames, however this is only family lore.
The first record that I have of him is his marriage certificate to Esther Bensusan (deceased) on 8/6/1896. The next record I have is of Louis and Esther Davis on the 1901 Census, with their first 4 children, living at 15 Lower Fenton Street, Stepney. Louis gives his age as 34 years and his place of birth as Spitalfields, London. This puts his year of birth about 1867.
They then appear on the 1911 Census, living at 20 Albion Street, Mile End Road, with their 6 surviving children. Louis gives his age as 44 years and his place of birth as Bethnal Green, London, so this is consistent to what he said on the 1901 census.
I also find Louis and Esther several times on the London Electoral Rolls after 1901 which I now understand you can only be eligible to be on if you were born in the UK or had naturalised.
So why can't I find Louis on a census prior to his marriage to Esther Bensusan ? Where was he ?
On his marriage certificate he gives his father's name as Solomon Davis, not deceased at the time of Louis' marriage but obviously now deceased, and Solomon's profession was a boot finisher.
When I met the lady who wrote the book at the JGSGB conference, she suggested the name may have been originally Davidson / Davidvitch or some similar spelling. This could be true because when I found Esther and Louis' graves in East Ham Cemetery there was a Hebrew inscription on Esther's which read "Esther daughter of Zelig, widdow of Yehuda son of David". So maybe this was what the name Davis was anglicised from ? She also advised me to join this website and open a thread, so here I am !
I would really appreciate any help/advice and I'm looking forward to hopefully helping others in return, and to find people looking for the same family that I'm researching.
Mole
I've just registered after finding this website in a book that I've just read, called "The Daddy of all Mysteries". So some of your usernames feel almost famous to me !
I'm struggling to find the birth of Louis Davis (deceased). The story is that he came to England from Russia with his brother and on arrival they were given different surnames, however this is only family lore.
The first record that I have of him is his marriage certificate to Esther Bensusan (deceased) on 8/6/1896. The next record I have is of Louis and Esther Davis on the 1901 Census, with their first 4 children, living at 15 Lower Fenton Street, Stepney. Louis gives his age as 34 years and his place of birth as Spitalfields, London. This puts his year of birth about 1867.
They then appear on the 1911 Census, living at 20 Albion Street, Mile End Road, with their 6 surviving children. Louis gives his age as 44 years and his place of birth as Bethnal Green, London, so this is consistent to what he said on the 1901 census.
I also find Louis and Esther several times on the London Electoral Rolls after 1901 which I now understand you can only be eligible to be on if you were born in the UK or had naturalised.
So why can't I find Louis on a census prior to his marriage to Esther Bensusan ? Where was he ?
On his marriage certificate he gives his father's name as Solomon Davis, not deceased at the time of Louis' marriage but obviously now deceased, and Solomon's profession was a boot finisher.
When I met the lady who wrote the book at the JGSGB conference, she suggested the name may have been originally Davidson / Davidvitch or some similar spelling. This could be true because when I found Esther and Louis' graves in East Ham Cemetery there was a Hebrew inscription on Esther's which read "Esther daughter of Zelig, widdow of Yehuda son of David". So maybe this was what the name Davis was anglicised from ? She also advised me to join this website and open a thread, so here I am !
I would really appreciate any help/advice and I'm looking forward to hopefully helping others in return, and to find people looking for the same family that I'm researching.
Mole
I will remove it as we don't want to confuse the issue later.
- I was hoping that perhaps we can find Charles in barracks in 1891 census.
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