MAHOGANY & TIMBER IMPORTERS Photo of the family timber merchants, Mathias & Sons, at 100a Brick Lane. The older man is Jacob Mathias the grandfather of Norman Mathias. Norman married Rosa Steinberg in 1936 (click here). Circa: early 1920s
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were married on 14 July 1940 at Bethnal Green Great Synagogue with the reception at the Casino Ballrooms, Redmans Rd, E1. The couple were both born in the UK. Mark’s father was born in Tarnov, Poland and mother in Minsk, Belarus while Anne’s father was born in Lodz, Poland and mother in Karlisch, Poland. Before […]
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at his Barmitzvah in April 1938 with his sister Sylvia and parents, Alec and Rachel (née Kafitz). At the time, the family lived at Wellington Ave, Stamford Hill and Monty attended Tottenham Grammer School. The Hubbersgilt family came to the UK in 1901 from Vitebsk in Lithuania with Alec being brought over 9 years later […]
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