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Wendy Bellany
We were interested to hear of Miriam
Margolyes’ grandfather's birth in Middlesbrough. I have an early
Middlesbrough birth. Isaac, son of Samuel Joseph Scheinman (Shynman
in Wales), was born at 36 Albert Road Middlesbrough on 11 July 1866.
The birth was registered by his mother, Sarah, which was unusual.
Perhaps Samuel had gone on to Merthyr, leaving Sarah with friends or
relatives until the birth of the child.
It seems likely that they had sailed
on one of the timber ships out of the Baltic ports. The ships were
laden with wood from the Lithuanian forests, all to make pit-props
for the coal mines of the North East and South Wales, and also
carried passengers. They called in at Newcastle, then went on to
Cardiff, the latter port almost certainly where the Scheinmans
intended to disembark. Can't have been fun for Sarah; what courage
she and all the immigrant women must have had. She is my grandson
David's great great great great grandmother.
Wendy Bellany
Lancaster, England
(Communicated by Miriam Margolyes)
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