Just wondering if someone could take a look at this...problems seeing the wood for the trees & see if I'm missing something obvious.
Some of you will probably have painful memories of my thread where I was trying to find out why my gggg grandfather, Lyon Asher in Nottingham, named his first child Alfred, when all the other children had "very Jewish" names.
I think I may have found a link worth exploring.
Lyon's second son was Joseph Asher. I have him as born in Nottingham in 1821 & marrying Eliza Peters in Radford, Nottingham in 1855. I think they were living in St Mary's, Hampshire in 1871 (his birth year would be 1823 from those details) & in 1881, they're living in Southampton, St Mary's Hants. He died in 1885 in Southampton.
Nottingham to Southampton seems rather unlikely but someone on Ancestry has a tree with an Alfred Asher born c 1800 in Southampton....so maybe that is the family connection. Even if the Joseph down in Southampton is not "mine" it does suggest a possible connection between Alfred/Southampton/the Nottingham Ashers.
The crucial point, really, is whether it was my Joseph Asher who married Eliza Peters at Radford, Nottm, in 1855. I don't want to cause anyone a lot of work (as if !), but maybe someone would be kind enough to have a quick shuftie & see if I've missed anything obvious.
Thanks
Some of you will probably have painful memories of my thread where I was trying to find out why my gggg grandfather, Lyon Asher in Nottingham, named his first child Alfred, when all the other children had "very Jewish" names.
I think I may have found a link worth exploring.
Lyon's second son was Joseph Asher. I have him as born in Nottingham in 1821 & marrying Eliza Peters in Radford, Nottingham in 1855. I think they were living in St Mary's, Hampshire in 1871 (his birth year would be 1823 from those details) & in 1881, they're living in Southampton, St Mary's Hants. He died in 1885 in Southampton.
Nottingham to Southampton seems rather unlikely but someone on Ancestry has a tree with an Alfred Asher born c 1800 in Southampton....so maybe that is the family connection. Even if the Joseph down in Southampton is not "mine" it does suggest a possible connection between Alfred/Southampton/the Nottingham Ashers.
The crucial point, really, is whether it was my Joseph Asher who married Eliza Peters at Radford, Nottm, in 1855. I don't want to cause anyone a lot of work (as if !), but maybe someone would be kind enough to have a quick shuftie & see if I've missed anything obvious.
Thanks
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