Some months ago we received some information regarding the family of Abraham Jacob Jonas. We checked the data and found it sound, with one exception. Our correspondent suggested that Benjamin JACOB JONAS had married a Julia REUBEN daughter of Jacob Reuben of Dover. Problem was that we had well sourced records which showed that Julia (Gitla bat Jacob) Reuben had died in 1831 and was buried in Canterbury Cemetery. Jump forward several months and we found documentation that proved our correspondent was right. But so were we! Take a look at the entry on our CemeteryScribes website for JACOB REUBEN and you will see why. Not long after the death of the ‘first’ Julia, a daughter was born to Jacob Reuben and his wife Leah (nee Lyons) and the baby girl was given the identical name (both Hebrew and English) as her recently deceased sister. This ‘second’ Julia was, indeed, the wife of Benjamin Jacob Jonas. and she died on the other side of the world in Sydney Australia (details can be found on the excellent Beverly Davis database http://www.bd-bd.info/) We were delighted to be able to update our records Abstracts of Wills for Jacob & Leah Reuben can be found [...]
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