Yolande McNicoll
Yolande McNicoll
My Jewish ancestors came to Australia in 1852 (my gggUncle Hirsch Fink (b. c.1822) with his wife Amelia nee Oppenheim and various of his sisters), and 1861 (their brother -and my gggGrandfather – Moses Fink (b. c.1810), his wife Gertrude Ascher and 9 of their eventual 11 children).
Moses and Gertrude were very assimilated: Child #10 was named Victoria after the colony where they landed; the other 10 had mostly German names, except #1 who was named Benjamin-Josman (only hyphenated in his Channel Islands birth record- thereafter all records present this as two consecutive names), after his Fink grandfather.
Of the 11 children, 4 definitely married within the Melbourne Jewish community [to a first cousin FINK, an ISAACS, a BRANDT and a LEON], 1 did not have married at all. The other 4 married out, including my direct line. Even so, my living aunt and her recently departed cousin [nee SHEIL] are both named after matriarchs [Deborah MOSES and Johanna MANNASA] from before the family emigrated. We have since started marrying back in
I have no documents and few alternative names: only family recollection, and what I can google. Electoral rolls have been good for Australia. I believe the Channel Island records are good too, but have no access to research done by my late grandmother Ruth [nee TIMMINS]’ late cousin Frith [BANBURY].
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