Michael Grant's Family Tree: The Mendelson Family

Robert Da Costa informs me that Joan Jenkins told him that Manny or Izzy Lee told her that the family came from Vishtinetz (Vištytis), in southwestern Lithuania. I do not (yet) have any evidence to back this up; the 1871 census says they came from Poland (which did not exist politically at the time).

There seems to be some confusion as to how exactly the Josephs in the top branch of the tree fit in. John Josephs said that his great-great-grandparents were Abraham and Rose Mendelson. However, Rose Pearlman, the granddaughter of Abraham and Rose, does not list Leah—the progenitor of the Josephs family—amongst her uncles and aunts. Indeed, she instead lists another Leah, married to Gabriel Woolf. She mentions Isaac and Annie Mendelson as her father's cousins.

However, the registry of marriages gives Annette as Gabriel's husband, and a later letter of Roses's gives his son, Monty, as "perhaps" Leah's son, so it looks like she got confused, and there's only one Leah, who was the daughter, as listed in her marriage certificate, of Abraham and Rose.

The brothers Isidor and Manville Levy and Ernest Lee had some connection with Cragside (in Thropton in Northumberland), the first house in the world to be electrified. However, I'm not entirely sure what: the electrification was installed by the 1880s, before they were born.

Place names are birth places if no other places are given; all dates are in British format (DD/MM/YYYY). All living people have been removed from this tree before placing online; if you recognise anyone here as being related to you, please don't hesitate to , especially if you have material to contribute, in return for which I will happily share the full version, with photographs (including of family members in Victorian England), PDF trees, and other materials!


[Yitzchak] ?

|  
|- Abraham MENDELSON 1831?-28.8.1898
|  Poland -> Aberdeen(??) -> Edinburgh -> Middlesbrough -> Newcastle

|  אַבְרָהָם חַיִים
|  
|  Picture-framer (1861/71), pawnbroker (1891)
|  = Rose, Rosa CLARKSON 1829?-12?.1.1909
|  Poland [1871], Germany [1901] -> Scotland -> Middlesbrough ->
|   Newcastle

|  
|  |  
|  |- Pauline, Polly MENDELSON 1848-1934 Poland
|  |  
|  |  = Moses (Moishe Leib) LEVEY 1846-22.2.1933
|  |  Schkee, Kovno Gubernia

|  |  מֹשֶׁה
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Elkan LEVEY 10.4.1882-1945 N/cle
|  |  |  אֶלְחָנָן
|  |  |  = Florence, Florrie ANKER 4.2.1881-1974 N/cle
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +---  
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Reuben LEVY -29.11.1958 Ncle
|  |  |  
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Norman LEE
|  |  |     = Kitty COHEN
|  |  |     |  
|  |  |     |- <son> LEE? America
|  |  |     |  
|  |  |     +- <son> LEE? America
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Louis LEVEY Darlington
|  |  |  = Anna ?
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Henrietta (Etty) LEVEY
|  |  |  = George ROUTLEDGE -
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |- Lita ROUTLEDGE
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Carl ROUTLEDGE
|  |  |     = Kay (?) ?
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Harry LEVEY
|  |  |  
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |- Raymond LEVEY South Africa
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Sidney LEVEY South Africa
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Daisy LEVEY 3.7.1886-1998 N/cle
|  |     = Arthur SONICK -1958
|  |     |  
|  |     |- Ella SONICK 28.8.1917-late 1990s? N/cle
|  |     |  
|  |     |  = Laurie DA COSTA 4.10.1920-3.1.1993
|  |     |  |  
|  |     |  +---  
|  |     |  
|  |     +- Charles SONICK (STUART) 28.8.1917-
|  |        
|  |        = (div) (1) Rita CARR
|  |        |  
|  |        +---  
|  |        
|  |        = (2) Margaret ?
|  |  
|  |-- Leah MENDELSON
|  |  = David JOSEPHS
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Edie JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Max JOCKELSON
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |- Dennis JOCKELSON descendants unknowm
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Rhenda JOCKELSON
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Gertie JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Sam LEON
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |- Sonya LEON
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- David LEON
|  |  |     = Enid ?
|  |  |     |  
|  |  |     +---  
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Hymie JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Lally ?
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +---  
|  |  |
|  |  |- Ferdinand JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Leah ?
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |- ? JOSEPHS? Middlesbrough
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- ? JOSEPHS? Middlesbrough
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Leo JOSEPHS
|  |     = (1) Gertrude? ?
|  |     |  
|  |     |- Anester JOSEPHS
|  |     |  
|  |     +- Doreen JOSEPHS
|  |     
|  |     = (2) ?
|  |  
|  |- Annette MENDELSON 27.2.1859-Q4.1892
|  |  Edinburgh -> Middlesbrough -> Newcastle

|  |  = Gabriel WOOLF 25.11.1859-< 12 February 1922
|  |  Poland -> London ('69) -> Manchester -> Newcastle

|  |  
|  |  Wholesale and retail picture-frame mfr and dealer in fine arts
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Monty WOLFE
|  |  
|  |- Henrietta, Ettie MENDELSON 1855/6-
|  |  Poland -> Edinburgh -> Middlesbrough -> Cullercoats

|  |  = (1) ? ?
|  |  
|  |  = (2) ? CULLEN
|  |  
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Harry CULLEN
|  |    = ? ?
|  |     
|  |  
|  |- Fanny MENDELSON 1857-9- Edinburgh
|  |  
|  |  = Lazarus JOSEPHS
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Arnold JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Betty BLOOM
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Frankie (f.) JOSEPHS
|  |  |     = ? CALLER
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Beattie (Betsy) JOSEPHS
|  |  |  
|  |  |-? Abe JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Kitty ?
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Sheila JOSEPHS?
|  |  |  
|  |  |- David JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Erna ?
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Sybil JOSEPHS?
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Sadie JOSEPHS
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Lena JOSEPHS
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Dolly JOSEPHS
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +- Joan ?
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Aida JOSEPHS
|  |  |  = Abe GOLDBERG
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Bert JOSEPHS
|  |     = Rae ?
|  |  
|  |-? Ann, Annie, Annette MENDELSON? 1858-60- Edinburgh
|  |  
|  |  
|  |- Rachael MENDELSON 1861/2- Edinburgh
|  |  
|  |  = ? STEEN
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Mabel STEEN Sunderland
|  |  
|  |- Charles MENDELSON 1863/4- Scotland
|  |  
|  |  
|  |- Sarah, Sally MENDELSON 1867/8?- Inverness
|  |  = Jacob LEVY
|  |  
|  |  Picture framers
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Manville LEVY 30.6.1892-23.6.1983 Thropton
|  |  |  
|  |  |  Automobile electricians and factors; worked as electrical engineer for Lord Amstrong, in Cragside Hall, Rothbury, the first house in the country to be electrified. Thropton - bought [squiggle] when retired. [EDC?]
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Isidor LEVY 13.4.1918-23.2.1984 Thropton
|  |  |  Automobile electricians and factors
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Ernest LEE -20/10.1980 Thropton
|  |  |  
|  |  |  Stationery and printing
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Ellen (Helene) Victoria LEVY 10.2.1901-14.1.1981
|  |  |  = Adolph → Rolf MICKLER 16.3.1897-23.2.1968
|  |  |  Commercial traveller
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +---  
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Annette LEVY Inverness
|  |     = Jack VAN DER VELDE
|  |     |  
|  |     +---  
|  |  
|  |- Philip Isaac MENDELSON 1866/7- Scotland
|  |  Pawnbroker's assistant (1891)
|  |  = Maud ? -< 1901 census
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Cissie MENDELSON?
|  |  
|  |- Flora, Florrie MENDELSON 7?.1869- Scotland
|  |  = Barney GOTTLIFFE
|  |  
|  |- Louis MENDELSON 1873/4- Middlesbrough -> Newcastle
|  |  Pawnbroker, 21 George St N/cle
|  |  = Sophia (Sophie) Louisa ANKER 1876/7-
|  |  
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Aubrey MENDELSON -1963 N/cle
|  |  |  = Addilas, Adelle REFSON
|  |  |  
|  |  |- Blanche MENDELSON N/cle
|  |  |  = Barnet RAKISON
|  |  |  |  
|  |  |  +----
|  |  |  
|  |  +- Rose MENDELSON 1912-ca. 2002? N/cle
|  |     = (1) Benjamin ABRAHAMS -1957
|  |     |  
|  |     +----
|  |     = (2) Max PEARLMAN -?
|  |  
|  |- Harry MENDELSON
|  |  
|  +- Charlotte, Charity MENDELSON 1865/6-29.2.1956
|     
|  
+-? ? MENDELSON
  |  
  +- Isaac MENDELSON -<20.11.1953
     = Annie ? -20.11.1953
     Sunderland -> Harrogate -> Bournemouth -> Newcastle

     
     |  
     |- Norman Mendel MENDELSON N/cle
     |  
     |- John Sidney MENDELSON N/cle
     |  
     +- Joyce MENDELSON 1911-

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