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Abraham Samuel

Birthdate:
Death: 1794
Sunderland Durham, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Hartog Samuel and Leah Samuel
Father of Samuel; Samuel; Philip Samuel and Lazarus Samuel
Brother of Hart Samuel

Occupation: silversmith
Managed by: Erin Ishimoticha
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About Abraham Samuel

The first Jew we can name as settling in Sunderland was Abraham Samuel who was there from at least 1750. He was described as a Silversmith ... went bankrupt in 1783 before dying in 1794.

Source: The Sunderland Beth Midrash 1889-1999, Derek Taylor and Harold Davis


http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/susser/provincialjewry/oxfyarm.htm

The Newcastle Courant announced, in 1791, ... From the same periodical we learn details of the outstanding Jew of the town - Abraham Samuel, silversmith, who died in 1794.* One of his daughters married Israel Isaacs, of London, in 1792 "after the manner of the Jews," another Barnett Cowen (1795); his son Philip, married Miss Oraniberg of London (1796) and his son Lazarus, Ann Davis, of Sunderland, (1796)


https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA969&lpg=PA96...


http://www.seligman.org.il/sunderland_jews.html

The Sunderland Jewish community can trace its origin well beyond the immigrations of Jews from Eastern Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century. Around 1750 a number of Bohemian merchants, led by a certain Abraham Samuel, crossed the channel from Holland and settled in the town, forming a congregation in 1768.