Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"I wrote to Dr. Adler, Chief Rabbi of the Jews in England, some years
ago, but his information was limited to some distant connexions, the
Davises, Isaacs, and Lewises, who still professed Judaism. Subsequent
inquiries discovered two uncles of mine, Charles Lewes and Mordan
Lewes, in London, who informed me that my grandfather, Isaac Levi, was
for ten years a clergyman of the Church of England, and had
congregation at Lynn, in Norfolk, and that he had published a tract
against Judaism. Beyond this I can get no farther information: my
uncles are either too poor or unwilling to prosecute their inquiries
any farther. Could you ascertain for me whether my grandfather left any
family, and if any member is still alive? My object is to discover
their existence, and to renew a correspondence which has been
interrupted for more than forty years.
"I am the grandson of Isaac Levi, for many years dead, reader of a
congregation of Jews in London; my father, Benjamin Levi, is still
alive, and is with me. I keep a school at Landour, in the Hymmalayas,
in the north-western provinces of India. I have been led to write to
you after reading your _Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers_, and
seeing in it that you are the author of a work entitled _The Jews in
Great Britain_, which I have not seen, and concluding from this that if
any one can obtain information you can.
"I send this letter to Messrs. Smith and Elder, booksellers, of
Cornhill, London, with a request to send it to you through your
publisher, Mr. R. Bentley," &c. &c.
I do not feel justified in publishing the last two paragraphs in my
correspondent's letter, and have therefore omitted them. I shall feel
extremely obliged to any of the readers of "N. & Q." who could and would
help me to answer the anxious Query from the Hymmalayas.
M. M.
Wybunbury, Nantwich.
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Minor Queries.
"_De la Schola de Sclavoni._"--On a large marble slab at North Stoneham,
near Southampton, is the following, inscription:
Ano Dni MCCCCLXXXI Sepvltvra de la Schola de Sclavoni."
Is this the burial-place of the family of one of the foreign merchants
settled in this country, and can any of the correspondents of "N. & Q."
give any information about it?
JOHN S. BURN.
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