Fanny Berkin

[Phoenix]

Fanny Berkin/Burkin was born 3 July 1896. mmn Barnett. in Mile End.

Her brother Benjamin was born 1894 in Whitechapel.

Their mother died and their father Morris Berkin remarried after the 1901 census.

I assume they were in the East End in 1901, but cannot find the family. Morris was a cap-maker, born 1873 per his naturalisation papers

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...nSearchResults

Alec and Annie were children of Morris's second marriage, to Sarah.

Can anyone find the first family in 1901?

[James18]

Could it be this, Phoenix?

[Phoenix]

I've looked at that, James, but Fanny and her brother have birth certificates in this country as Burkin/Berkin. Unfortunately, the naturalisation certificate gives no suggestions for other spellings of the name.

[James18]

Yes, it does look like Morris has chosen English (or perhaps Jewish) names for himself and his children; it's very unlikely he was born with that name, and so tracing him prior to his naturalization may be difficult.

I'll keep looking, though!

[James18]

A possibility for Morris (Gootmann) and Sarah in 1901, with a daughter named Rebecca.

Have you managed to trace any other births to the couple?

[Phoenix]

Morris says 4 children, no deaths. I can't see anyhting on the GRO index - and thought that Sarah was mother to all of them.

That ref you found is the same street as the family were in a decade later, so promising, but I'd expect Benjamin to be there too.

[James18]

Do the two UK births you've found have baptisms?

[James18]

Also interesting, although they're too old.

Possible, but not much to go on. Not sure who the child is.

[Phoenix]

They are Jewish, in a Jewish community, so I'd say unlikely.

[James18]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

They are Jewish, in a Jewish community, so I'd say unlikely.

Haha, what a stupid question! I even said they were Jewish a few posts ago.