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A tale of two daughters. Morrocan and Algerian ancestry makes its name in Australia

En

03:10pm
Duration: 40 mn

17

JULY

2012

Algeria

Morocco

Families

History reveals the presence of one Joseph de Judah Afriat, born in Morocco, at one time secretary to the Dey of Algiers, immigrant in London in 1809 working as a Rhubarb pedlar, and subsequently married to Dinah Moses in a London Bevis Marks ceremony in 1811.

Three children resulted from that marriage: Leah (Affriatt), Sarah (Affratte) and Judah (Afriat). The family's lives in London in the Bethnal Green and Shoreditch areas involved much hardship, and were spent with their cousins, Sarah, Charles Abraham and Henry Wilson, whose mother Emma Moses was Dinah's sister.

Emma's  second marriage to Jacob Josephson after the death of her first husband saw  Jacob soon transported to the penal colony of Australia. His subsequent pardon for his crime of forgery saw Emma follow him to Australia, leaving  her children with Dinah in London. After Joseph Affriatt's death, their mother Dinah  remarried in London and died within 5 years.

Australia now beckoned and the 2 Affriatt girls and their Wilson cousins bravely made their way independently by 5 month long journeys on sailing ships  to Australia as free persons, although the country was confirmed to be  harsh and barren and still an English prison colony. 

Cousin Sarah married Australia's first free Jewish settler Barnett Levey and their lives had a relatively miserable outcome despite Barnett's entrepreneurial approach to life. Emma and Jacob Josephson by comparison, led a comfortable yet eventful life following Jacob's beginnings as a convict. Emma and Jacob assisted their extended family and in the space of 4 years the Affriatt girls had met up with and married their cousins.

 21 children would be born into the families of these 2 girls between 1834 and 1856. There are many life histories that should be told such as that of Jacob Affriatt Wilson, born of Leah and Charles in the Australian bush in 1836, educated in Sydney and then at St Bartholomews Hospital London. On his return to Australia he dies in the  practice of medicine, at age 30. This and many more stories are still being revealed.

 The Affriatt/Afriat name is all but disappeared in Australia in the 21st century.

Speaker Location
Ronnie NICHOLS
 Ella Fitzgerald A

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