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Family of Mark Henry Abrahams and Esther Victoria Rogers

  • Husband:

  • Mark Henry Abrahams (c. 1832-1879)

  • Wife:

  • Esther Victoria Rogers (1839-1891)

  • Children:

  • Kate Abrahams (1865-1933)

  • Marriage:

  • 4 Mar 1862

  • Great Synagogue Chambers, St James Dukes Place, City of London

  • Divorce:

  • 15 May 1878

  • Decree Nisi

Husband: Mark Henry Abrahams

  • Name:

  • Mark Henry Abrahams

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Henry Abrahams (c. 1795-1865)

  • Mother:

  • Ann Barnett (c. 1808-1881)

  • Note 1:

  • 4 November 1879. The Will of Mark Abrahams late of 53 St Mary Axe in the City of London Printer and Publisher who died 24 September 1879 at 53 St Mary Axe was proved at the Principal Registry by Marcus Newmark of 151 Camberwell Road in the County of Surrey Warehouseman the sole Executor. Personal Estate under £200.

  • Note 2:

  • Will of Mark Abrahams printer and publisher of No.53 St Mary Axe in the City of London, 8 Sep 1879

    All my furniture and household effects to be not sold or divided but retained for the use of my five unmarried children Annie Kate Henry Barron and Julia Abrahams; I bequeath all money due to me at the time of my decease and my share of book debts stock in trade interest on business and all other estate and effects to my dear mother Ann Abrahams for her own use, in consideration of which she shall pay the sum of twenty five shillings weekly to my daughter Annie towards the support of my five children, to be chargeable to the business so long as they are unmarried and unable to support themselves and provided always that they do not visit or remain in any way under the influence of their mother my late wife; should any one of them have any intercourse with their mother, he or she shall be excluded from any portion of the weekly allowance; my son Barron Abrahams now a pupil at the Jews Hospital Lower Norwood I leave my Executor to act as best he deems fit for his benefit when he leaves the Hospital; Mr Marcus Newmark of 151 Camberwell Road, exec.

    Witnesses: Henry P Cohen, 18 Elgin Road W, Caroline Jacobs, 50 Warwick Road W

    Proved London 4 Nov 1879 by exec.

  • Birth:

  • c. 1832

  • White Lion Street, Whitechapel, London

  • Census (1):

  • 1851 (age 18-19)

  • Printer, living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1861 (age 28-29)

  • Compositor, living with parents

  • Occupation (1):

  • 4 Mar 1862 (age 29-30)

  • Printer, 35 St Mary Axe (on marriage cert., recorded as "Mordecai")

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1865 (age 32-33)

  • Printer, 19 Calvert St, Shoreditch (on daughter Kate's birth cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 38-39)

  • Printer, 27 Heneage Street, Spitalfields

  • Residence:

  • 9 Jul 1879 (age 46-47)

  • 53 St Mary Axe, City of London (on daughter Kate's indenture cert.)

  • Death:

  • 24 Sep 1879 (age 46-47)

  • 53 St Mary Axe, London

Wife: Esther Victoria Rogers

  • Name:

  • Esther Victoria Rogers

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Thomas Rogers (1800- )

  • Mother:

  • Susanna Mary Presley (1802- )

  • Note:

  • SHORTLAND Esther Victoria, 25 August 1891. The Will of Esther Victoria Shortland (Wife of Thomas Shortland) formerly of 9 Cloth Fair Smithfield in the City of London but late of 57 Great Sutton Street Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex who died 10 August 1891 at 57 Great Sutton Street was proved at the Principal Registry by Christopher William Pegrum of 1 Franchise Place Waltham Abbey in the County of Essex Assistant Proof Master the sole Executor. Personal Estate £75 16s. 3d.

  • Birth:

  • 28 Apr 1839

  • St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 7 Oct 1839 (age 0)

  • St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 1-2)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 11-12)

  • Living with parents

  • Residence:

  • 4 Mar 1862 (age 22)

  • 13 Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate (on marriage cert., recorded as Sarah Rogers)

  • Marriage Fact:

  • 1887 (age 47-48)

  • 1887 Sep Q, Shoreditch, 1c/256 (Esther Victoria Rogers)

  • Death fact:

  • 1891 (age 51-52)

  • 1891 Sep Q, Holborn, 1b/434 (aged 52)

  • Census (3):

  • 1891 (age 51-52)

  • Wife in household

  • Death:

  • 10 Aug 1891 (age 52)

  • 57 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

Child 1: Kate Abrahams

Note on Husband: Mark Henry Abrahams (1)

4 November 1879. The Will of Mark Abrahams late of 53 St Mary Axe in the City of London Printer and Publisher who died 24 September 1879 at 53 St Mary Axe was proved at the Principal Registry by Marcus Newmark of 151 Camberwell Road in the County of Surrey Warehouseman the sole Executor. Personal Estate under £200.

Note on Husband: Mark Henry Abrahams (2)

Will of Mark Abrahams printer and publisher of No.53 St Mary Axe in the City of London, 8 Sep 1879

All my furniture and household effects to be not sold or divided but retained for the use of my five unmarried children Annie Kate Henry Barron and Julia Abrahams; I bequeath all money due to me at the time of my decease and my share of book debts stock in trade interest on business and all other estate and effects to my dear mother Ann Abrahams for her own use, in consideration of which she shall pay the sum of twenty five shillings weekly to my daughter Annie towards the support of my five children, to be chargeable to the business so long as they are unmarried and unable to support themselves and provided always that they do not visit or remain in any way under the influence of their mother my late wife; should any one of them have any intercourse with their mother, he or she shall be excluded from any portion of the weekly allowance; my son Barron Abrahams now a pupil at the Jews Hospital Lower Norwood I leave my Executor to act as best he deems fit for his benefit when he leaves the Hospital; Mr Marcus Newmark of 151 Camberwell Road, exec.

Witnesses: Henry P Cohen, 18 Elgin Road W, Caroline Jacobs, 50 Warwick Road W

Proved London 4 Nov 1879 by exec.

Note on Wife: Esther Victoria Rogers

SHORTLAND Esther Victoria, 25 August 1891. The Will of Esther Victoria Shortland (Wife of Thomas Shortland) formerly of 9 Cloth Fair Smithfield in the City of London but late of 57 Great Sutton Street Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex who died 10 August 1891 at 57 Great Sutton Street was proved at the Principal Registry by Christopher William Pegrum of 1 Franchise Place Waltham Abbey in the County of Essex Assistant Proof Master the sole Executor. Personal Estate £75 16s. 3d.