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Circumcision Register of Asher Asher
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THIS BOOK OF PRAYERS AND THE CUSTOMS OF THE MOHEL
ACCORDING TO RELIGION AND LAW IN ISRAEL
WAS WRITTEN
HERE IN THE VILLAGE OF BISHOPSBRIDGE
NEAR TO THE CITY OF GLASGOW, MAY ZION AND JERUSALEM BE REBUILT
AND WAS FINISHED
ON THE DAY OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE ALTAR, 2 TEVET
IN THE YEAR
BLESSED BE HE WHO IS FAITHFUL IN HIS COVENANT (= '620)
[= Wednesday 28 December 1859]
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AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO CAME INTO THE COVENANT THROUGH ME. AND AS I CIRCUMCISED THE FORESKINS OF THEIR FLESH SO MAY THE FORESKINS OF THEIR HEART BE CUT AWAY, TO LOVE THE LORD GOD WITH ALL THEIR HEART AND ALL THEIR SOUL. AND MAY HE IN HIS LOVING KINDNESS AND GOODNESS GRANT THEM THE MERIT TO GROW TO THE TORAH AND TO THE HUPPAH AND TO GOOD DEEDS, AND FROM THE FOUNT OF BLESSINGS MAY HE POUR OUT ALL GOOD FOR THEM, AND MAY HE GRANT THEM A GOOD AND LONG LIFE AND PEACE. AND MAY THEY FIND GRACE AND GOOD UNDERSTANDING IN THE EYES OF GOD AND MAN, AND MAY THE SCRIPTURAL VERSE BE FULFILLED FOR EACH OF THEM: 'AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL REST UPON HIM, A SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, A SPIRIT OF COUNSEL AND STRENGTH, A SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD' ( ). AND MAY THIS BE HIS WILL, AMEN.
INTRODUCTION
Asher gives the date of birth and the date of circumcision. I have given only the date of birth, noting in column 10) if there was a delay of more than eight days in performing the circumcision.
Asher gives both the Jewish as well as the secular dates of birth and circumcision, I have only quoted the secular date.
So many entries were not fully written up, that one must assume that the parties were not well known to Asher, and that he wrote up his register some time after the circumcision when he had forgotten the names of the parties.
NAMES
In the Ashkenasi tradition it is unusual to give a child the same personal name as a close living relative, such as the father or grandfather. Where then a child appears to bear the same name as its father one tends to think of it being born after the death of its father. Other possibilities, however, should be borne in mind. In no. 8, for example, the child is Naphtali b Naphtali. As the father is not a Jew, they turned to the mother's father's name to use as the patronymic. The maternal grandfather was perhaps dead when the child was born, so the grandfather's name was used both as a personal name for the child, in good Ashkenasi tradition, as well as for its patronymic.
ABBREVIATIONS & GLOSSARY
[ ] Material in square brackets has been added by the editor.
( ) Material in round brackets appears thus in the original.
-- A double dash indicates that the appropriate entry was not filled in.
" " English names, dates and adresses in the Register are in English. Other comments in the Register in English are placed within inverted commas.
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1) No. 1
2) Place Glasgow
Name of Child
3) Hebrew Elijah b Samuel
4) English Elias Krotoshiners
Name of Father
5) Hebrew Samuel b Elijah
6) English Samuel Krotoshiners
Name of Mother
7) Hebrew Gittel bat Israel
8) English Yetta Guttstam
9) Date of Birth 3 Jan 1861
10) Notes The brith was on 13 Jan 1861
1) 2;
2) Glasgow;
3) Isaiah Zvi b Menahem KZ;
4) Isaiah Henry Cohen;
5) Menahem b Zvi KZ;
6) Emanuel Cohen;
7) Frumat b jacob KZ;
8) Phoebe Cohen;
9) 10 February 1861;
10) --.
1) 3;
2) 9 Shoreditch, Lodon;
3) Akiba b Alexander;
4) Jacob Isaacs;
5) Alexander b Isaac;6) Alexander Isaacs;
7) Feigelche bat Akiba KZ;
8) Frances Meyers;
9) 12 April 1862;
10) --.1) 4;
2) Devonshire Sq, London;
3) Joseph b Moses;
4) Joseph;
5) Moses b --;6) Myer Tobiansky;7) Rebecca bat Moses;8) Rebecca Feinberg or Morris;9) 15 April 186210) --.
1) 5;2) 3 Bury St, London;3) Meir b Joseph;4) Meyer Albert Isaacs;5) Joseph b Yehiel;6) Joseph Isaacs;7) Sarah bat Daniel; 8) Sarah Davis;9) 4 May 1862;10) He was born on Sunday 4 May 1862 and the circumcision was on Monday 12 May 1862, ie apparently on the ninth day. 1) 6;2) 16 New St, Gravel Lane, London;3) Joseph b Shraga; 4) Joseph Byalonosk; 5) Shraga Zelig b Joseph;6) Selig Byalonosk; 7) Beila bat Meir; 8) Elizabeth Weltman; 9) 18 May 1862;10) --.1) 7;2) 2 Old Castle St, London;3) David b Meir;4) David Albert Wiener;5) Meir b David;6) Martin Wiener;7) --;8) Julia Jacobi;9) 1 August 1862;10) --.
1) 8;2) Devonshire Sq, London;3) Naphtali b Naphtali;4) James Dixon;5) --. His father is a Gentile;6) --;7) Sarah bat Naphtali;8) --;9) 26 September 1861;10) The circumcision was on 17 August 1862. One may imagine that the eleven-month delay was due to social, rather than medical, considerations as his father was a Gentile.1) 9;2) 2 Old Castle St, London;3) David (Ber) [b Isaac], a twin;4) --;5) Isaac b David;6) Isaac Levy;7) Golla bat Yair;8) Rosalie --;9) 2 August 1862; 10) The circumcision was on 31 August 1862, the month's delay almost certainly due to the fact that this child and no. 10 being twins were probably underweight.
1) 10;2) 2 Old Castle St, London;3) Menahem (Lemmel) [b Isaac], a twin;4) --;5) [Isaac b David; 6) Isaac Levy; 7) Golla bat Yair;8) Rosalie --; 9) 2 August 1862; ]10) The circumcision was on 31 August 1862, the month's delay almost certainly due to the fact that this child and no. 9 being twins were probably underweight.
1) 11;2) 8 Fort St, Sp[ital]flds;3) --;4) --;5) --;6) --;7) -- bat Menahem;8) --;9) 23 August 1862;10) The circumcision of the child in this very incomplete entry was on 31 August 1862, the same day that Asher circumcised the twins of entries 9 and 10.
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1) 12;2) 21 Lyon [Iron?] St, Hampstead Road;3) Menahem b David;4) --;5) David --;6) --;7) --;8) --;9) 16 September 1862;10) From page 20 Asher no longer adds London to the address. He has become a Londoner!1) 13;2) 3 Cox's Square;3) Joseph b Mordecai;4) Joseph --;5) Mordecai b Yair;6) Marks Irenstein;7) Yutta bat Joseph;8) Zetta Fass;9) 12 October 1862;10) Rosalie, the mother of the twins, nos. 9 and 10, was also bat Yair. Yair is a very unusual name, so she and Marks may have been brother and sister, or it might just be a coincidence. Unfortunately, Rosalie's maiden name is not given.
1) 14;2) 2 Angel Court;3) Aryeh Dov b Leib Ber;4) --;5) Zvi --;6) Hirsch Krook;7) --;8) --;9) --;10) --.1) 15;
2) 20 Hutchison's Avenue;
3) Judah b Isaac;
4) --;
5) Isaac b Moses;
6) Isaac Moses;
7) Yutta bat Leib;
8) --;
9) 8 December 1862;
10) --.1) 16;
2) 2 Hutchinson's Avenue;
3) Reuben b Michael;
4) --;
5) Michael --;
6) -- Rothleder;
7) --;8) --;
9) 15 December 1862 (date of circumcision).10) --.1) 17;
2) 40 Canon St, Glasgow;
3) Uri Baruch b Benjamin;
4) Phillip Barnet Simons;
5) Benjamin b Uri;
6) Benjamin Simons;
7) Hannah bat Baruch;
8) Hannah Crawcour;
9) 19 December 1862;
10) --.1) 18;
2) 22 Devonshire Place, Portland Place, London;
3) Jacob b Simon;
4) Erick Waley;
5) Simon b Solomon Jonah HaLevi;
6) Simon Waley;
7) Hindele bat --;
8) -- Solomons;
9) 30 January 1863; 10) --.1) 19;
2) 20a Newcastle Place;
3) Jacob b Gabriel;
4) --;
5) Gabriel b Dov;
6) -- Wortman;
7) --;
8) --;
9) 12 February 1863; 10) --.1) 20;
2) 149 Sloane St, Chelsea;
3) David b Moses;
4) --;
5) --;
6) Jonasohn of Sunderland;
7) --;
8) --;
9) 4 February 1863; 10) The circumcision was on 25 February 1863.1) 21;
2) 63 Golston St;
3) Isaac b Dov;
4) --;
5) Dov Ber b Isaac;
6) Barnet Mysoski;
7) Miriam bat Feivish;
8) --;
9) 23 March 1863;10) --.1) 22;
2) 3 Dukes Place;
3) Zvi b Moses HaLevi;
4) Henry Wolf;
5) Moses b Meir HaLevi;
6) Moss Wolf;
7) Beila bat Moses;
8) Elizabeth Mordecai;
9) 25 March 1863;10) --.
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1) 23;
2) Tottenham;
3) Samuel b Samuel HaLevi;
4) Samuel Lyons;
5) Samuel b Jacob HaLevi;
6) Samuel Lyons;
7) Sarah bat Zvi;
8) Sarah Benjamin;
9) 20 April 1863;10) --.1) 24;
2) --;
3) --;4) --;
5) --;
6) --;
7) --;
8) --;
9) --;
10) "Christian father".
1) 25;
2) 2 Upper Montague St, Russell Sq;
3) Herbert Lindo;
4) --;
5) Isaac Mocatta;
6) --;
7) --;
8) Abigail;
9) 27 October 1863; 10) Entries 3) and 5) are written in Hebrew.
1) 26;
2) 7 Little Alie St;
3) Alexander;
4) --;
5) Aryeh Leib HaCohen;6) Alexander Agar;
7) --;
8) --;
9) --;
10) The circumcision was on 2 December 1863, "Aged 18 months".
1) 27;
2) Margaret St Synagogue;
3) Shemini;
4) Claude;
5) David;
6) Revd D. W. Marks;
7) --;
8) --;
9) 10 December 1863;10) --.
1) 28;
2) Sunderland;
3) Joseph b Meir;4) Edwd Augustus Joseph Wiener;5) Meir b David; 6) Martin Wiener;7) Beila bat Baruch;8) Julia Jacobi;9) 18 February 1864; 10) The circumcision was on 26 February 1864.
1) 29;2) Belsize Park, Hampstead;3) Judah Leib b Jacob;4) Leonard Miller;5) Ze'ev b Judah;6) William Miller;7) Esther bat Daniel;8) Esther Davis;9) 21 February 1864; 10) --.
1) 30;2) 59 Christian St;3) Isaac Samuel b --;4) --;5) Ephraim b Zvi;6) -- Brown;7) --;8) --;9) 3 March 1864;10) --.
1) 31;2) Dukes Place;3) David --;4) --;5) --;6) -- Mordecai;7) --;8) --;9) --;10) --.
1) 32;2) 51 New Compton St, Soho;3) Judah b Benjamin;4) --;5) Benjamin b Moses;6) -- Hand;7) --;8) --;9) 30 March 1864;10) --.
1) 33;2) 14 New Castle Place;3) Judah b Elijah;4) --;5) --;6) -- Hilsom;7) --;8) --;9) 11 April 1864;10) --.
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1) 34;2) 4 Colville Road, Bayswater;3) Nathan b Meshullam KZ;4) -- Cohen;5) Meshullam b Joseph KZ;6) -- Cohen;7) Rachel bat Nathan; 8) Rachel DeFries;9) 6 May 1864;10) The circumcision was on 18 May 1864.
1) 35;2) 16 Gt James St, Bedford Row;3) Solomon b Menahem HaLevi;4) --;5) Menahem b Solomon HaLevi;6) Emanuel Jukkie [Tuckie?];7) Edal --;8) Adele Stark;9) 5 May 1864;10) The circumcision was on 26 June 1864.
1) 36;2) 40 Canon St, Glasgow;3) Moses b Benjamin;4) Charles Morris Simons;5) Benjamin b Uri;6) Ben Simons;7) Hannah bat Baruch;8) Hanna Crawcour;9) 1 July 1864;10) The circumcision was on 15 July 1864.
1) 37;2) 51 Belsize Park, Hampstead; 3) Judah b Enoch;4) Leopold Muller;5) Enoch b Judah;6) Henry Muller;7) --;8) Phoebe Davis;9) 12 July 1864;10) The circumcision was on 24 July 1864. The u in Muller has an umlaut.
1) 38;2) 9 West St, Golden Square;3) Isaac b Reuben;4) Samuel Goldstein;5) Reuben --;6) -- Goldstein;7) --;8) --;9) The circumcision was on 14 August 1864;10) "Aged 6 years".
1) 39;2) 14 Angel Ct, Middlesex St;3) David Moses b Uri; 4) David --; 5) Uri b David; 6) Pheis Hyams; 7) Rachel bat Solomon; 8) Rachel Riech; 9) 7 November 1864; 10) --.
1) 40;2) 3 Dukes Place, Aldgate;3) Jacob b Moses HaLevi;4) --;5) Moses b Meir HaLevi;6) Moss Woolf;7) Beila bat Moses;8) Elizabeth Mordecai;9) 26 November 1864;10) --.
1) 41;2) 113 Long Acre;3) Samuel b Baruch;4) Sam Solomons;5) Baruch b Samuel;6) Bowie Solomons;7) Rebecca bat Mordecai;8) Rebecca Mordecai;9) 29 November 1864;10) --.
1) 42;2) Crescent St, Euston Square;3) Asher Anshel b Uri;4) Andrew Aaronson;5) Uri b Joseph;6) Phillip Aaronson;7) Hannah bat Abraham KZ;8) Hannah Vantyn;9) 8 December 1864;10) --.
1) 43;2) Board of Guardians;3) --;4) Solomon --;5) --;6) "(Father, Christian)";7) --;8) Julia Samuels;9) 1 January 1865; 10) --.
1) 44;2) 55 Houndsditch;3) Jacob b Uri Shraga;4) --;5) Uri Shraga b Jacob;6) Phillip Levy;7) Pessa bat Meir;8) Priscilla Bebarfeld;9) 1 January 1865; 10) --.
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1) 45;2) 55 Dudley St, Soho;3) Moses b Israel;4) --;5) Israel b Isaac;6) Chas. Joseph;7) -- bat Abraham our father;8) --;9) 31 January 1865; 10) The mother was a proselyte.
1) 46;2) 52 Devonshire St, Queen Square;3) Nathaniel b Eliezer;4) Lipman b Gabriel;5) Eliezer b Mordecai;6) Levy Gabriel;7) Elkah bat Nathaniel;8) --;9) 2 February 1865; 10) --.
1) 47;2) 84 St Martins Lane;3) Meir b Abraham our father;4) Max --;5) His father and his mother are not married according to the law of Moses and Israel, and his [ie the father's] name is not known;
6) --;
7) Shenchen bat --;
8) Jeanette Stern;
9) 24 February 1865;
10) It is difficult to imagine the circumstances of this case. Presumably, the father was a Jew (although his name was 'not known'), and Jeanette was not a Jewess at the time of Max's birth. The baby must have been admitted to the Jewish faith in the week after his birth, probably with his mother.
1) 48;
2) Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Marylebone Road;
3) Judah Leib b Joel;
4) Louis --;
5) His father and his mother are not married, and his name is not known. Therefore, I have called the [patronymic] name of the boy according to the mother's father;
6) --;
7) Yutta bat Joel;
8) Jetta Leibler;
9) 12 February 1865; 10) The circumcision was on 5 March 1865.
1) 49;
2) Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Marylebone Road;
3) Judah b Hayim;
4) --;
5) Hayim b --;
6) Hyman Jacob;
7) Hannah --;
8) Hannah --;
9) 26 February 1865;
10) --.
1) 50;2) 6 Brunswick Road, Upper Holloway;3) Abraham b Moses;4) Armand Leon Gustave Maurice;5) Moses b Abraham;6) Armand Maurice;7) -- bat Abraham our father;8) Josephine Magnien;9) 10 March 1865;10) The mother was a proselyte.
1) 51;2) 4 Kensington Park Road, Bayswater;3) Judah b Moses;4) Louis Henry Bauer;5) Moses --;6) Morris L. Bauer;7) --:8) Marie --;9) 9 March 1865;10) The circumcision was on 26 March 1865.
1) 52;2) 2 Upper George St, Bryanston Sq;3) Meir b Isaac;4) Robert Schloesser;5) Isaac b Eliezer;6) Adolphe Schloesser;7) --;8) Marian --;9) 31 March 1865;10) The circumcision was on 9 April 1865.
1) 53; 2) Southampton Row;3) Judah Leib b Simon;4) Lewis Lyon;5) Simon b --;6) --;7) Yutta bat Jacob;8) --;9) 11 May 1865;10) --.
1) 54;2) 25 New Montague St, Brick Lane;3) Simon b Abraham;4) Simon --;5) Abraham b Shalom;6) Albert Chlebowski;7) Esther --;8) --;9) 12 May 1865;10) --.
1) 55;2) 6 Preston St, Brick Lane;3) Solomon b Abraham KZ;4) --;5) Abraham b Samuel KZ;6) Abraham Cohen;7) --;8) Golda --;9) 2 June 1865;10) --.
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1) 56;2) 14 Hutchison St, Gravel Lane;3) Abraham Hayim b Aaron;4) Abraham Hyam Lewis;5) Aaron b Menahem;6) Aaron Lewis;7) Hayyah bat Benjamin;8) --;9) 4 April 1861 (16 April);10) Nos. 56, 57, 58 were siblings. The circumcisions were all on 6 June 1865. "These children were born in St Petersburg, the first date is the Russian one, the second the English one."It is difficult to imagine why 3 siblings, aged 4, 2, and 10 weeks, born in St Petersburg, were only circumcised when they got to England.
1) 57;2) 14 Hutchison St, Gravel Lane;3) Shalom Menahem b Aaron;4) Solomon Mane Lewis;5) Aaron b Menahem;6) Aaron Lewis;7) Hayyah bat Benjamin;8) --;9) 20 May 1863 (2 June);10) Nos. 56, 57, 58 were siblings. The circumcisions were all on 6 June 1865. "These children were born in St Petersburg, the first date is the Russian one, the second the English one."It is difficult to imagine why 3 siblings, aged 4 years, 2 years, and 10 weeks, born in St Petersburg, were only circumcised when they got to England.
1) 58;2) 14 Hutchison St, Gravel Lane;3) Elijah b Aaron;4) Elias Lewis;5) Aaron b Menahem;6) Aaron Lewis;7) Hayyah bat Benjamin;8) --;9) 26 March 1865 (8 April 1865;;10) Nos. 56, 57, 58 were siblings. The circumcisions were all on 6 June 1865. "These children were born in St Petersburg, the first date is the Russian one, the second the English one."It is difficult to imagine why 3 siblings, aged 4, 2, and 10 weeks, born in St Petersburg, were only circumcised when they got to England.
1) 59;2) 108 Great Russell Street;3) Michael Ber b Elijah;4) --;5) Elijah --;6) Julius Sax;7) --;8) --;9) 3 June 1865; 10) --.1) 60; 2) Houndsditch; 3) Alexander b Joseph;4) Alexander Abrahams; 5) Joseph b Meir; 6) Joseph Abrahams; 7) Beila bat Isaac; 8) --; 9) 7 June 1865; 10) --.
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