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The Thorn
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Contact the Thorn Gent Family: fjgent(at)gmail.com
Frank Gent and Brana Thorn
Lili and Esther
Brana Thorn
Frank Gent |
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Connections to websites that we have created |
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A booklet I wrote in 1982 to mark the tercentenary of their trial and
death. It included the evidence of the depositions, biographical details of
many of the protagonists, and a study of Restoration Bideford.
Includes complete facsimiles of two contemporary publications about the
trial. Now only
available as a book from Lazarus Press, Bideford |
For the first time ever, the complete, unexpurgated text of the
autobiography of the Dublin-born printer and topographer. It is an excellent
source for the eighteenth century, with many insights into politics, and the
role of printers at the time. |
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Meet Lili's friends, pets and favourite sites. She needs to update it too. |
My MA thesis for the University of Leicester, 1973. |
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A very full introduction to the eighteenth-century synagogue and its
history, including many photographs, historic paintings, transcripts of
archives, monumental inscriptions from the cemetery, and the work of Ezekiel
A. Ezekiel, artist and engraver. Now transferred to
JGSGB but with a copy here |
An account of Brana's mother's family from
Germany, with documents, photographs and reminiscences. |
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The historical research of Rabbi Dr Bernard Susser,
providing essential materials for Anglo-Jewish history and genealogy. Now transferred
to JGSGB but with a copy here |
My grandfather served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First
World War, and was captured whilst rescuing injured prisoners. The
correspondence he sent and received is here recorded. |
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An organisation that researches historic
Jewish communities in Germany and England. |
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The first part covers the history of my mother's parents: her father,
born to a father of German Jewish origin, and a mother of Italian Jewish
origin, and her mother, born in the Austro-Hungarian town of Gorz, now Gorizia, with
Slovenian ancestry but a name that appears to be of Spanish origin. The
second part is my mother's account of her experiences during the Second World
War, living in Albania to escape persecution. The Teglio Family of Modena and Genova, and the Cornish pilchard industry. The Finzi Family of Ferrara and Genoa in
particular Elsa Finzi and her descendants. The Schiff Family of Mannheim, Trieste, Milan and Peschiera. |
Snaps from our holiday in Jerusalem, August 1998.
Snaps taken in September 2000 Adrian's snaps taken in April 2001
We lived here for eleven years, staying at Xmas, Passover, half terms and, of course, the summer holidays.
Our latest adventure. |
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Culver House, Crediton |
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A site that includes lots of photographs, and lots of transcriptions
of records. Also information about the Turner, Warburton and Neild families.
Transcripts and summaries of wills of the Gent family in Staffordshire
and thereabouts, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Various articles and essays about the history of my own branch of the
Gent family, from Leek in North Staffordshire. |
Chiefly consisting of the correspondence of Dr Henry Gent whilst
living in America, 1816-1830, and after his return to England.
These are transcripts of my family archive for the period that we
lived in Knutsford, where Dr Henry Gent was in
practice, until his son left for Manchester in 1878, until his marriage in
1891.
The life of my great grandfather, including a diary of family life for
one year, letters after a serious road accident, and letters when his wife
was dying.
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An account by my Aunt Lyn of the purchase of a farm in Devon and her
subsequent life there. My Aunt Lyn spent six months in hospital during the Second World War
with rheumatic fever.
My father's account of his birth and early years in Manchester.
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A brief account of my greatgreat grandfather
William Neild FRHS, and his descendants. What I've been doing for the past forty years... |
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