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Family Photographs Related To Mrs Linton

Linton, Mrs, fl 1981, of Crumpsall, Manchester 1874-1939
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Family Photographs Related To Mrs Linton
Date of work:
1874-1939
Reference number:
GB124.DPA/1435
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Custodial history:
Mrs A Linton was born in Germany in 1916. She left Germany as a refugee on 3rd November 1938 and her parents left Germany for Palestine in September 1938. Mrs Linton (nee Hersh) came to England where she met and married Harold Linton (nee Heinz Lillienthal). Harold Linton left Germany in March 1939 and he was interned on the Isle of Man when the Second World War broke out. Later Mr Linton joined the Pioneer Corps and served in Palestine and Egypt. Mrs A Linton's maternal grandfather, Samuel Gruenenbaum, was a farmer and horse dealer. He was also appointed the German equivalent of a J.P. He had quite a large farm where he employed a non-Jewish labourer who worked for him for 40 years. This labourer was provided with a cottage by Samuel Gruenenbaum. Samuel went twice a year to Ostend to buy shire horses. On his farm he also had cows and poultry and he grew a special wheat used to make Matza. Mrs Linton's maternal grandfather was a great philanthropist. He helped emigrants passing through Germany (some of them on their way to England) and during a period of unemployment he arranged for a factory to be built in the village together with the electrification of the village where he lived. Samuel Gruenenbaum lived in the Wiesbaden area. Mrs A Linton's father, Sigmund Alexander Hersh had a dairy farm. He bought and sold fox and rabbit skins and he was an amateur chazan and a shochet. Mrs Linton's family lived in a village 5 miles from the town of Herborn. The small community in which they lived consisted of 6 Jewish families. In addition to the Hersh family (Mrs Linton's family) there were the 2 Hertz families - the families of Abraham and his brother Herman Hertz. These two brothers were not on speaking terms: they were both cattle dealers. There was also the Lowenstein family. Mr Lowenstein was also a cattle dealer. Then there was the Strauss family - Mr Strauss was a draper - and there was the family of Hugo Hertz who was an upholsterer (this family were cousins of Mrs Linton). This small Jewish community had a Mikvah in the cellar belonging to Mrs Linton's aunt and cousin. This woman, whose single name was Kahn, was the daughter of Mrs Linton's maternal aunt and thus Mrs Linton's cousin, but when she married Mrs Linton's paternal uncle she also became Mrs Linton's aunt. The synagogue was at first in the room of a house belonging to Calvinist people. It was a close community, e.g. they all used to go together to the river to perform the Tashlich ceremony on Rosh Hashonna. A minister, Rev. Rosenbaum, used to come twice a week by train to visit the community. He came originally from the same town as the Hubert family. Mrs Linton recalls there being no work for young people in the scattered rural communities and so they went to the cities, e.g. Frankfurt, (a special train being provided in order to bring people home from the cities for the Jewish Festivals.)
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Unrestricted
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Record types:
Greater Manchester County Record Office
Language:
English
Record number:
7200809
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