Posts by Tony Harding
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I would love to understand the steps in a Sephardic marriage. In my own thinking, at a superficial level, I have used clan intermarriage in the African context as a comparator.The terms used in the Sephardic marriage process make further understanding difficult. My maternal family became Anglican in the 1800s.Please could someone set out the steps of Sephardic marriage for me. I assume there are c...
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Georgina Marks has posted some valuable compilations related to the arrival of persons in London which many of us have found useful, including a List of the Merchants of London 1677. Here is a further list which I found lurking on the www when I was searching for Barrows - before I met Julian Land online.
Some of the discussion on these pages has touched on slavery, particularly the values and practices of Sephardic Jews as slave owners. I assume most of us are familiar with the music of Bob Marley. This song is very expressive of that story:Old pirates, yes, they rob ISold I to the merchant shipsMinutes after they took IFrom the bottomless pitBut my hand was made strongBy the hand of the AlmightyW...
This is a slightly obscure request for this forum. If acceptable, I would like assistance in tracing records of manumitted slaves, or children born of masters and slaves, in London. This is a particular case in my Barrow family:There is a reference to Richard Barrow in the record of Joseph Barrow’s estate (source http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/Jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=360). ...
Many thanks, Ton.By the way, I am one of the original 4 Cousins mentioned in www.barrow-lousada.org - with all credit to Julian Land for his wonderful effort to put our family story together - and live in Johannesburg, South Africa. My mother was a daughter of Benjamin Wingate Barrow who settled in Cape Town. The name Wingate is a reference to the related Wingate family of Orde Wingate ("Hayedid"...