Will Extracts now total 1300
We have added a further 200 new will extracts to the collection found here There are many fascinating insights to be found amongst the wills, accounts of business transactions, married life,...
View ArticleThe Will of Diego Rodrigues Marques dated 1675
This will fascinated us to such an extent that we attempted to transcribe it all. The vast amount of information covering people, places, trade, possessions and a little family intrigue make it the...
View ArticleThe Will of Jacques de Paiva 1688
Jacques de Paiva sometimes known as James and Isaac and whose Hebrew name is thought to have been Moses Zagache (according to R.D. Barnett and Edgar Roy Samuel see Jonathan Schorsch, « Mosseh Pereyra...
View ArticleMore Will Abstracts
Few of the abstracts on our site conceal quite so much romance and drama behind the dry, archaic, legal language in which it was written, as the Will of Jacques de Paiva who wrote his Will aboard the...
View ArticleMISTAKES HAPPEN!
And when they do, we hold our hands up and apologise. We recently found an error in our transcript of the Will of Elizabeth Gompertz NA143. which has now been corrected online. We do our best to get...
View ArticleNames, place and Ebarstrow
In 2010 we featured a piece on our Cemeteryscribes blog Names: Places of origin or occupations or ? We recently received a lengthy follow-up from a correspondent from Australia. Much of this very...
View ArticleIsaac ABOAB of Gibraltar
There are a number of fascinating elements to Isaac Aboab’s Will, an abstract of which, thanks to David Alexander, will soon be added to SynagogueScribes’ ever growing collection. Isaac was born in...
View ArticleOver 400 will extracts added to SynagogueScribes
Over 400 will extracts added to SynagogueScribes.com Family names include: Aarons, Abadee, Aboab, Abrahams, Alexander, Allen, Alvares, Arons, Attias, Bamberger, Barnard, Barnet, Barnett, Barrow,...
View ArticleOver 100 Jewish Will Extracts added to SynagogueScribes
We have added 120 Jewish Will Extracts from the 18th and 19th Century to SynagogueScribes. This takes the total to over 2000 will extracts that can be searched see Search Secular Reacords. Family names...
View ArticleWill Extracts – Over 600 Wills added to our database
We are delighted to announce that we have added over 600 new Will extracts to our Secular Records. The focus of these new additions are Sephardic Jews of London based on those buried at Nuevo Sephardic...
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