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Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 20 Send Message	Judith	Report	14 Oct 2010 20:52
Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 20 Send Message	This is becoming a bit of a mystery and I'm hoping someone can advise me where to look next. Barnett Shapiro was my grandfather b 1904 d 1956 (Greenwich). I don't know where he was born - probably Russia/Poland or when he came over to the UK. I have searched the 1911 census but the Barnetts on there are not 'my' Barnett meaning he probably arrived after 1911. Barnett married my grandmother Rachel Cohen I believe in the early '30's but I have looked through every marriage record from 1925-1935 and nothing. They would have married in an east London synagogue before my dad's birth in Jan 1935. I have been in touch with my uncle, Barnett and Rachel's son Jeffrey but even he doesn't know much about his father. All he coukd tell me was that my grandfather was a gambler and used to use other names as well! Solomon was apparently one of them. All I have found is his registration of death in 1956. Rachel, my grandmother died in 1978 and he is not buried with her, no one seems to know where he is buried. This seems to be my one relative who doesn't want to be found - does anyone have any tips as to how I can search for his records. Thanks in advance, Judith Shapiro