top of page
My Blog
I offer a free consultation with every service offered.
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 8, 20172 min read
Mary James of Leigh Sinton, Worcestershire
Leigh Sinton is a parish in the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire where “the inhabitants are wholly engaged in agricultural pursuits” (The...
4 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 6, 20173 min read
Maurice Katz from Ekaterinoslav
One of Ari’s 3x great-grandfathers was Maurice Katz, originally Moses and known as Morrie. He was born in 1883 in Ekaterinoslav in the...
4 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 5, 20172 min read
William Cobley (pronounced Coverley?)
William Cobley was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, born in 1814 in Barrowden, a parish on the river Welland in Rutland, and also on the...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 5, 20171 min read
Judith Brooks of Middleton-by-Wirksworth
Judith Brooks was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in Middleton-by-Wirksworth in Derbyshire on 23 Jan 1828 and baptised at St...
3 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 4, 20173 min read
Family stories: the inn-keeper in Memel
Moses Mendelsohn was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, born in 1856 in Memel. Memel is on the Baltic coast and was part of Prussia until 1923,...
4 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 3, 20171 min read
William Orchard of Langton Matravers
William Orchard was Ari’s 5x great-grandfather. He was born in the Dorset village of Langton Matravers on 8 Sep 1813, and baptised on 10...
3 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 2, 20172 min read
Eleazer Loshak
Eleazer (or Lazarus) Loshak was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. We know he was born in about 1845, somewhere near Gritsev, Ukraine. The date...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 30, 20171 min read
Frederick Sims of Holbrook
One of Ari’s 3x great-grandfathers was Frederick Sims, born 25 Jan 1875 in Idridgehay, Belper, Derbyshire. I like to imagine him getting...
4 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 29, 20171 min read
Anthony Woodhouse of Bonsall
Anthony Woodhouse (or Woodiwis) was born in one of my favourite places: Bonsall in Derbyshire. According to Pigot and Co’s Commercial...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 29, 20171 min read
Susan Davis of Imber, silk-spinner
Susan Davis was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in about 1832 in the now-deserted village of Imber on Salisbury Plain,...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 28, 20171 min read
Henry Pearson, mystery man
Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, Henry Pearson, was born in about 1838 in Cromford, Derbyshire, but has proved difficult to trace. According...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 25, 20172 min read
Edward Willis, removed to Upton Snodsbury
This week I received a document from Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, discovered when I was searching the National...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 24, 20171 min read
William Henry Sheppard
William Henry Sheppard was Ari’s 3x great-grandfather, born on 3 Nov 1865 in Crowle, Worcestershire. His mother was Angelina Tyler (see...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 23, 20171 min read
George Ball, Wirksworth lead-miner
George Ball was Ari’s 9x great-grandfather. He was born in about 1675 in Middleton-by-Wirksworth in Derbyshire, and worked as a...
5 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 22, 20172 min read
Henry Penny, gamekeeper
Another of Ari’s ancestors (his 4x great-grandfather) was Henry Penny, who lived all his life in Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire. British...
3 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 20, 20172 min read
Family stories: murdered for a wedding suit
One of the stories told by my grandmother Rose was about her father-in-law, Charles Feinstein, who was born on 3 Feb 1857 in Libau...
12 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 18, 20172 min read
Frances of Ashbourne
For several of Ari’s ancestors, I know very little about their lives. I thought I’d do a post about Frances, one of his 6x...
3 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 17, 20171 min read
Angelina Tyler, glove-maker
Angelina Tyler was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother, born in Crowle, Worcestershire and christened at the church of St John the Baptist on 18...
4 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 16, 20171 min read
The New Jersey connection
Isaac Abram Feinstein was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. He was born in about 1827 in Polangen (now Palanga), on the Baltic coast of...
2 views0 comments
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 15, 20171 min read
Missing Minna
Minna Chaskelson was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in 1852 in Silale, Lithuania, and died at the Carlington Nursing Home in...
2 views0 comments
bottom of page