Where can I find information about where the Jews moved who were expelled from Bordeaux, France in 1761?
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I had ancestors who immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies (specifically North Carolina) from the Bordeaux region sometime between 1757 and around 1767: the 1761 expulsion falls in that period. A follow up curiosity is that when I looked for information on these ancestors in Ancestry.com, specifically the censuses/church records of that time period in France, I didn't find any reference to them. Is it possible that the Jews living in France were not counted as real citizens and thus not accounted for in records (particularly church records)?
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At OP: Not all Jews were expelled from Bordeaux, the Sephardi Jews (who settled in France after being expelled from Iberia during the Inquisition) from Portugal actually instigated the expulsion of 152 "foreign" Ashkenazi (except for 6 elderly Ashkenaz who were allowed to stay) for their own selfish reasons. I've looked at a half-dozen books on the topic, one hints that those families ended up in Paris, another hints they went to Bayonne (though that contradicts another book that says that the Bayonese Jews were mainly Spanish chocolatiers), the rest are silent on the fates of the 152 and just look at the intrigues surrounding Jacob Pereira and Issac de Pinto. Could your ancestors have come from there? Sure. But there were other places (Alsace, Metz) that were persecuting Jews on a much larger scale during the same period from which it is much more likely that they came from. I would start my reading with "The French Enlightenment and the Jews: the origins of modern anti-Semitism" By Arthur Hertzberg and go from there. At Maxi: Stay away from the lists of "the 109", by and large that is propaganda being espoused by anti-Semitic hate groups. I prefer not to direct people towards evil.
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Are you certain, do you have proof that they left Bordeaux ? Have you considered the possibility that they went to England before America or maybe Holland ? In the 1600s and 1700s, Jews in Poland, the center of Ashkenazi Jewry, faced blood libels and riots. The growth of Hasidism in Poland drew many Jews away from typical Ashkenazi practice. After the Chmielnicki massacres in Poland in 1648, Polish Jews spread through Western Europe, some even crossing the Atlantic. Many Ashkenazi Polish Jews fled to Amsterdam and joined previously existing communities of German Jews. Sephardim there considered the Ashkenazim to be socially and culturally inferior. While the Sephardim were generally wealthy, the Ashkenazim were poor peddlers, petty traders, artisans, diamond polishers, jewelry workers and silversmiths. As the Sephardim became poorer in the 18th century, the communities became more equal and more united. The Jewish community in England also changed in the 1700s. It had been primarily Sephardi throughout the 1600s, but it became more Ashkenazi in culture as growing numbers of German and Polish Jews arrived. By 1750, out of 2,500 Jews in the American Colonies, the majority was Ashkenazi. They were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Holland, Germany, Poland and England. The first Jews were merchants and traders. Since then, Ashkenazi Jews have built up communities throughout the United States. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html In 1685 Jews were guaranteed freedom of worship, and in 1698 Parliament officially recognized the practice of Judaism. In the 1700’s, Ashkenazis from Amsterdam, Hamburg and other parts of Germany settled in English cities. Some Ashkenazi Jews gained prominence, such as the Rothschilds, Goldsmids and Disraelis. In the late 1890’s, antiSemitism in Russia produced an influx of immigrants that swelled the Jewish population from 65,000 at the end of the 1800’s to 300,000 Jews in 1914. In the 1930’s, prior to World War II, another influx of Jews emigrated from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Italy to Great Britain. http://www.cjh.org/pdfs/GreatBritain07.pdf Edit : FRENCH CIVIL REGISTRATION The 1791 revolutionary, anti-clerical government abolished vital registration by the Church parishes and made civil registration compulsory for all. Thus, from September 1792 to now, Jews in France have their birth, marriage and death events registered in civil vital registers. The system devised at the time has remained in force without any modification; it was apparently perfect from the day of its inception. --------------------------------------… Jews generally did not keep vital records unless required to do so by law. In most countries Jews are recorded in the civil registration or vital records along with people of other religions. For example, when civil registration started in France in 1792 and the Netherlands in 1795, Jews were recorded with the rest of the population. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Jewish_Records Many records of Jews kept by local governments or by Jews themselves, especially for cities of Europe that had significant Jewish populations, have been microfilmed. For example, there are Jewish records at the Family History Library for marriage contracts [ketubah], circumcision records [bris], burial and cemetery records, and other Jewish records from Amsterdam that date back to 1580. Excellent records of German and Portuguese Jewish communities during the 18th century are found in cities such as BORDEAUX, France. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Jewish_Records
Tebs
I would research the history of Bordeaux during that period, it that doesn't work, I would contact a Rabbi and ask where that history might be.
Sunday Crone
Jews would not be in church records because churches are Christians houses of worship. To find Jews, you would look in synagogue records.
StephenWeinstein
The Jewish Ring is a source of lots of historical information about movements of Jewish populations, Good luck. Chaplain Matthew http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aragorn/jew-ring.htm
innerbanks
http://www.romancatholicism.org/popes-jews.htm http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/HistoryJewishPersecution/ http://wake-up-america.net/expulsions_of_the_jews.htm Not something I know much about having no Jewish ancestors, so it is nice to learn, however this happened during the Imperial rivalry or the seven years' war, which may or may not have had something to do with it...109 Locations whence Jews have been Expelled since AD250 http://forum.stirpes.net/judaism/5379-jews-modern-capitalism-part-i.html It seems that over the centuries that Nations have feared the Jewish people, I would say that you are better to go specifically to someone who knows and understands Jewish history, maybe local to where you live, as i suspect that the jewish people kept their own records rather than trusting the nation they were living in at that time, having been expelled so many times from different countries.........the national church records in France would have been Roman Catholic the Jewish people wouldn't have attended catholic churches...........as I say it is new to me, just educated guesswork and 30 years of researching family history. Good luck with your very interesting research
Maxi
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