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Suffolk / Re: Jewish family in rural Suffolk?
« on: Thursday 09 June 16 07:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi Nicky,
As Thomas was born in 1775, working back from his burial record, his parents were probably married a  bit before that. I found a surprising number of marriages for Abraham Kings and Marys in that period and guessed that most of the Abrahams were nonconformists.

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Suffolk / Re: Jewish family in rural Suffolk?
« on: Wednesday 08 June 16 21:08 BST (UK)  »
My father's family has a story, which I've had from 2 sources who don't know of each other's existence, of Jewish forbears in rural Suffolk. My gggg grandfather was Thomas King, labourer, 1775-1830, d. Freckenham. One family source has him as the son of Abraham and Mary of Sudbury, saying that Abraham married the gentile Mary and was disowned by his family. I do have Ashkenazi DNA but also have Sephardic and possibly Ashkenazi DNA from my mother's family, so it's difficult to tell.

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