Rebecca Leah Wolfson

Rebecca Leah Wolfson (b (approx) 1856, d 21 March 1925 at 73 Nicholson Street, Glasgow at 69 years old, nee Myers)

Family

Married Samuel Hyman (shoemaker) (b (approx) 1835, d 1912 at 77 in the Gorbals. Mother's maiden name Meelner. Subsequently married Morris Wolfson, (Jeweller), according to her death certificate in 1925. There appears to be no record of her marriage to Morris in Scottish records.

Parents Barnett Myers (general dealer) and Annie Myers (nee Harris)

Timeline

• 1911 - Census data shows Rebecca Hyman (age 55) was registered in the Gorbals along with her husband Samuel Hyman (74), Mary (19), Minnie (16), Barnet (15) and Marcus (18 - Grand-son) in Portugal Street.
• 1915 - Rebecca Hyman a 'grocer' was a tenant in a shop in 87 Oxford Street in Glasgow. The landlord was Gray Edmiston of 58 Newark Drive per James B. Livingston, 35 South Portland St, in the Gorbals, very close to the South Portland Street Synagogue and the Glasgow Jewish Institute. He appears to have been the agent of Edmiston. He (Edmiston) owned a series of properties in Oxford street including nos 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91.
• 1921 - Census data states that Morris Wolfson (b 1845) (76, so presumably born approx 1845) born in Kovno, Russia (known today as Kaunas, Lithuania), a naturalised British subject was a retired Watchman. He lived at at 73 Nicholson Street, Glasgow in a three room house in Tradeston/Gorbals which was subsequently demolished and now forms part of the site of Glasgow Sherriff Court. One other person was living there called Leah Hyman (60) born in Riga, Russia, in current day Latvia. She was listed as widowed, and as a 'house keeper' and 'general servant'. This would appear to be Rebecca Leah Wolfson who later appeared in her death certificate as Morris's wife.

See also

• Wolfson family