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May his soul be bound up in the bond of life eternal
נקבר ...
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בח ...
תנצבה
IN SACRED MEMORY OF
MORRIS ABRAHAMS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY THE 27
THAND WAS INTERRED ON THE 29
TH 5638 1877
AGED 78 YEARS
“TRULY MY SOUL WAITETH UPON GOD
FROM HIM COMETH MY SALVATION”
[Psalm 62:1]
Morris (Maurice/Morice) Abrahams was born in Poland between 1799 and 1806. The first record in England is a christening record for Morris and Louisa Abrahams daughter, Lavinia who was born in 1831 in Dorset.
The family are then recorded in the census from 1841 to 1871. Morris is recorded as a jeweller in 1841, but in later years as a draper.
He and his wife Louisa, who was born in 1811 in Trowbridge, had five sons and two daughters. The family lived in Wiltshire moving from Bishop Cannings to Great Cheverell and then Bromham and Calne.
Morris died in July 1877 in Bath. Their eldest daughter Lavinia, is recorded in the 1851 census as a barmaid in the Bell Inn in Fugglestone St Peter, Wilts. Two of her brothers and one of her sisters are living with her. Lavinia went on to become a hotel keeper in Derbyshire. One of her brothers, Aaron, remained in Wiltshire and trained greyhounds. Louisa, Morris's wife, died in 1897 in Derbyshire where she had gone to live with one of her daughters.
Census records
1841
Nursery
Unknown
Bishops Canning. Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
1851
An Inn
Unknown
Great Cheverell, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
1861
None
Horspool
Bromham, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
1871
None
None
Quemerford, Calne, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Associated addresses
11
Prior Park Cottages
Bath
Place of death.