1879

Marriage of David and Sarah:

Translation of the Wedding Document

Took place in the town Khmelnik on the in the year one thousand eight hundred seventy nine at eleven o’clock in the morning.

The Rabbi of Khmelnik synagogue Leibus Epstein announces that in presence of witnesses Gershl Mendel Pakhol fifty nine years old and Motl Kassovsky sixty years old, both resided in the town Khmelnik, yesterday David Zmidek, twenty years old, a single man, the son of Moshka and Sore Szprinca nee Szterensis resided with parents in Khmelnik and Sura Gitel Waldberg, a girl, twenty one year old, daughter of Eizyk and Tserla (Cyrla) nee Bulwa , resided with parents in Khmelnik have entered into areligious marriage.

Three announcements had preceded that marriage in the Khmelnik’s sanctuary at eleven o’clock in the morning during the service, namely on the 3/15th*, 10th/22nd* and 17th of February/ 1st* of March of this year at eleven o’clock in the morning on Sabbath days.

Permission from the father of the woman had been performed orally. The newlyweds announced that they did not make any premarital terms.

1891

15th / 27th July*: Dawid registers the birth of 4 children "residing temporarily as an unskilled laborer in the village of Firlej in the district of Wielogóra."

"The delay in registering this birth is due to the father’s fault, he did not present his marriage certificate"
(Quotes from the childrens Birth Registrations)

Hinda is the birth name of Annie / Helena
Gabryl is the birth name of Gabriel
Mirla is the birth name of Mary
Kelman Josek is the birth name of Coleman

The Birth Registration documents with translation can be found on their pages.

** The registration process took place in Radom. Firlej lies half way between Chmielnik and Warsaw.

Whilst the birth records say they were born in Chmielnik, according to the British Naturalization Papers of Coleman and Gabriel they were born and educated in Warsaw. There is further evidence from another member of the family to indicate that even though a person was born in Warsaw it was cheaper to register the children as being born in Chmielnik ( Testimony of Cesia Suknik daughter of Miriam Zmidek), in both these cases the parents being from Chmielnik.

1895

Both of Sura-Gitel´s parents died on December 31st

Cyra Waldberg daughter of Dawid Bulwa and (?) died at the age 76

Ezyk Waldberg son of Joska and Dobra of Chmielnik died at the age of 74

1902

Oct 5 Dawid goes to the UK ahead of the family.

Click on the image to enlarge it.

This is a record from the Register Book of the Inmates of the Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter. On the first line .... the record shows Dawid arrived on October 5th 1902 travelling on the SS Batavier II from Holland with the sum of 2 pounds sterling. It notes that he is 44 years old, married, a baker, and at some points moves on to live at 3 Shorter Street in London.

For more about the discovery of this document go to 'Finding Dawid Zmidek'

1903

Rest of the family emigrate to the UK ?

Reference for this is the Naturalization Papers for Gabriel and Coleman processed in 1920 specifically Question 11. How long have you been resident in this country ? Answer: About 18 years.

1908

September David dies.

It is now certain that Dawid died on the 23rd or 24th September 1908 and is buried in Edmonton Cemetry Block G Row 6 Grave 39, even though there are some anomolies in the records as shown below.

	Cemetery & Federation of Synagogues Burial Society Records Folio 118 Ref No. B15	Headstone Grave at Edmonton Cemetery Block G Row 6 Grave 39	Death Certificate	BMD Whitechapel Records 1c 177
Name	David Smith	David Smith	Davis Smith	Davis Smith
Age at death	51	52	51	51
Date of death	24th September 1908	24th September 1908	23rd September 1908	3rd Quarter 1908
Address at death	32 Princes Street	32 Princess Street (book in cemetery).	32 Princes Square St. Georges
Named relative		Son of Moses	Jack Lindner - son in law, living at 32 Princes Square (Annie’s / Helena’s husband), although they were not married until 1909 (BMD records)
Other information	Member of the Greenfield Street Synagogue	Mourned by ……. Daughters-in-law, but Gabriel married 1912, Coleman married 1913 JCR-UK Records Ref: P18382 confirms age at death and location of burial site	Profession - Cardbox maker

CR-UK Records Ref: P18382

Death certificate:

Record Book at Cemetery

1909

Sarah Gitel at the Wedding of Annie and John Lindner

1929 Edmonton Jewish Cemetery Records
		Translation of Hebrew on the Headstone: Sarah Gitel Daughter of Isaac Yitzhak Died on the 7th of April 73 Years old



* Regarding dual, double dates: e.g. 15th / 27th July As a result of the Russification process (after a few Polish independence movements) since 1868 all documents had to be written in the Russian language and the obligation to use the Julian calendar was imposed. Virtually all documents use both dates - the first date is according to the Julian calendar (used in Russia) and the second one is according to the Gregorian calendar (used in Poland before the partitions). The second date is the "modern" one. For more details go here.