Genealogy Chat

Seems to be quite a few 'Threads' relating, looking at names on google (some shared by Alisoun)

Sounds confusing!.


http://www.findagrave.com/

http://jewishdata.com/jewish_genealogy_search/Fellman/-

(above also has some)

Chris :)


(below relates to your George Jacob one, I think!)

http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4001144/4001152/68/


(from below)

http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4001144/4001152/68/

Thanks Gins + Chris

there are lots of threads on this family ; this one was supposed to be a general discussion about Naturalisation documents + how to find them

but of course i give examples from my family

Alisoun is my sister .

YEs CHRIS HE'S OUR MAN

There's also article about him selling postcards of a questionable nature as he'd done in scotland .in 1906

We knew he was a salesman though
.didn't know he sold false teeth too ...

Riga was the port he left from .

he must have got a better more official certificate after this court case

the one we have was issued May 1916

Gins he says he's born Manchester but actually Courland .RUssia and came to GB very young

The welsh newspaper report about our George Jacob F explains something about his naturalisation papers .

the copy we have is from 1916 ..+ includes a photo + town + country of birth
I wondered why he didn't register at start of WW1

now I know that he did but the document didn't have enough detail to prove to Welsh police that he WAS Russian


the article shows that ;

100 years ago 15th Dec 1915

Our greatgrandfather was taken to court ... charged on 6th nov 1915

with being an alien ......in a prohibited area (merthyr High St) .....
...without a certificate of nationality .!


He had actually registered as an alien in Cardiff aug 11th 1914 ...

he was given 4 days to produce evidence but was seen on 24th Nov + still hadn't got proof .

It didn't help that his 1st act on arrival in Merthyr was to go to the police station and ask if there were any munitions factory near by .

It all worked out in end charges were dropped ...but it probably explains why there is so much detail on his 1916 document + a photo

Article also confiirms that he'd lived in UK 24 years + was a debt collector ..