Elijah JACOBS of Cinderford (General)

by David Jacobs , Thursday, July 20, 2006, 08:38 (6702 days ago)

I was directed to the website by my fathers cousin June Miller.
Her grandfather and my great grandafther were brothers.
For the past 35 years I have been undertaking research in to the history of the Jacobs Family.
In 1975 I visited Cinderford and have a black and white photograph of the exterior of the shop.
In 1929 the Jacobs Family house in Belle Vue Road Cinderford was sold to the Rural District of East Dean and United Parishes and I visited the Council offices which were accommodated in the house and from where I acquired a copy of the conveyancing document.
Lastly the name of Elijah's son Nathan is inscribed on the war memorial in the main square in Cinderford.
The British Jewry Book of Honour page 99 records that Private N Jacobs 40241 of the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment was killed on 2/08/1917 and his address is given as Belle Vue Road Cinderford Gloster. His name also appears on the war memorial at the Menim Gate in Ypres Belgium.