Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Mrs Samuel Albert

9 November 2016

I just saw that you established the Kehilla Link for Port Elizabeth and I was really hopeful it will eventually help me find my long lost relatives.

My great grandfather, Levi Crutch's sister, Mrs. Samuel Albert, who lived at Number 8 Queen Street, Port Elizabeth, Delagoa Bay, South Africa, wrote to him in July 1899 about the Boers and British and the war that was about to commence.  I have a news article that appeared in the newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio where he was living at that time. 

I know from a newspaper article that my great-grandfather  received word  at in October 1895 his neice May Albert wed Mr.. David Isaac Rossisky in  Cape Colony, South Africa. I found a copy of the duplicate original register of that marriage.  the register shows her name as Mary not May.  They were married in a synagogue in Port Elizabeth by Samuel Rapaport.  I am not sure of the spelling of David's last name as it is hard to read the register.

I do not have any other information about this branch of my family.  I can tell you my great grandfather Levi Crutch was living in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales at the time of the 1871 England and Wales Census.  His brother, Beryl Moses Barnett (they went by different last names and I have not been able to determine which name Crutch or Barnett is the true last name) was living in Middlesborough on Tees in England for the same census.  I do not know where their sister Mrs. Samuel Albert (I do not know her first name) was living at that time.  I do know that in 1869 my grandfather, Abraham, Levi's son, was born in Berlin.  Levi and Beryl then came to the United States in 1876 and settled in NY briefly before their families came to the United States.

This is all I know about the Alberts and their daughter and son-in-law.  Is this something you want added to the database on the Kehilla?  Please advise.

Helen Rosenstein Wolf

Past President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

9 November 2016

Here are the three documents I have on my Port Elizabeth family.  I wish I had more and am always looking.  I was told had to check with the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv for any information on PE. 

It is very interesting to see who has already submitted information to the PE site as Grant Goshin was our guest speaker last week at our genealogy meeting and I see his family is listed.

I am attaching the documents and appreciate whatever you can list for me.  My grandfather was 6 months old when they left Berlin and settled in Wales for 6 years or so.

If you ever need any help in Cleveland, Ohio let me know.

thanks

Helen