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Ladkyis
04-05-2006, 11:20 PM
I have the marriage of my 2xg grandparents John NATHAN and Sarah GREEN as August 20th 1846 at the great Synagogue. I have the book of the transcripts of the marriage registers so that's ok but, and this is the problem, I cannot find John NATHAN on the General Register Office (GRO) Index and I don't know which of the many sarah GREENs it might be because I don't know which registration district the Great Synagogue comes under - any suggestions?.
I had this silly idea that if I could find John's marriage on the GRO I could perhaps find his siblings marriages because the chances of them marrying in the same place - the mother stayed put for the next ten years - were good. Ho hum, back to the drawing board.

Ann

Geoffers
05-05-2006, 8:40 AM
I don't know, but using a seach engine comes up with references to a Great Synagogue:

Fieldgate Street, East London
http://www.olamgadol.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/purim.html

and this mentions Bethnal Green Great Synagogue
http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/LSyn31EK.htm

Whilst this site gives an address for a Great Synagogue
http://www.brijnet.org/centralsyn/shul_history.shtml
Although the Community and a synagogue had already been in existence for fifteen years, it was in name and practice only a branch of the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, in the parish of St. James's, Aldgate, in the City of London.

Geoffers

Ladkyis
05-05-2006, 11:00 AM
Duke's Place is THE Great Synagogue but which registration district is Dukes Place in?

There are umpteen NATHANs on the GRO - except my John - but the registration district is given as London and I have it in my mind that this means *the City* of London and then I confuse myself.

Ann

Peter Goodey
05-05-2006, 11:50 AM
If there are still lingering doubts.... ;)

The appropriate parish is St James Dukes Place and the registration district is City of London/London City.

Ladkyis
05-05-2006, 4:33 PM
Thanks Peter,

The reason I confuse myself is that they lived in Southwark - St George the Martyr so I usually expect to see that in there somewhere but not for marriages obviously.

Ann