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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: LONDON-D Digest V00 #565
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:50:22 +0100
In-Reply-To: <3a.33a53c0.2617b74c@aol.com>


In message <>, writes
>In a message dated 01/04/00 12:26:36 GMT Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
><< One snag is that Jews may have a synagogue name, an anglicised name
> and a trading name, all of which are different. >>
>
>Hello Eve.
>
>Is there the remotest chance that these different names were recorded!!!!

not often enough with any cross check. I have come across a Lawrence
Levy who is Eliezar Levi in synagogue; one of his sons adopted the
surname Lawson, another Leveson, another Lawrence
and Barendt Cohen became Bernard Keen and later Kay
and quite a number of Jews in money lending adopted Mc-smething names.
It was marked enough to be a popular joke and 'my Uncle Alexander
McTavish'
>
>One more thing, on our local t.v news, there was an item about people who
>served in the Blitz receiving a medal, I believe a recent decision to give
>this medal. The part I saw concerned a lady who had been in the Fire Service
>during that time. Do you or anybody know whether this concerns all the
>services including the Met Police War Reserves. Unfortunately only saw the
>last bit of the item.

I didn't see this - I imagine it will be in the papers. Times used to be
the best place, but these days.........

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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