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From: "Bob Moss" <>
Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Brick Wall No. 1 - MOSCOVITCH
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:42:47 -0500
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Hi

Knowing that both my grandfather changed his name to Moss just before my
father's birth I had only looked for that derivation but I will check
others.

Think I will be in London in Nov. Will let you know.

Incidentally the Rose Levy that you had a shot of unfortunately is the wrong
one. Finally got the death cert. You win some and you lose some.

Hope you are doing a little better.

Ciao

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Miriam Pollak
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:04 AM
To: British Jewry Mailing List
Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Brick Wall No. 1 - MOSCOVITCH


Bob,

The first thing that comes to mind is that they may have changed their name.
Moscovitch is very 'foreign' sounding. Perhaps they changed it to Moscow,
Morris, etc. From my hunting in the JC archives it is clear that around the
turn of the century many people changed their surname to make it sound more
'English'. Just an idea .....

Miriam Pollak
London


> BRICK WALL No. 1.
>
> Harris Moscovitch born around 1841 and wife Rosa born around 1843 appear
on
> the 1891 UK census living in Manchester.

Our website is at
www.british-jewry.org.uk
We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer.

is the address to use for help.

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