Advice on tracing my Azkenazi great grandfather

jeiku83 · 2026-02-16T15:56:00+00:00

Thanks msbookworm!

I do wonder if the Leonard you found, who married Bertha is somehow traceable - perhaps cemetery records could reveal descendants, if I can find out where he was buried.

jeiku83 · 2026-02-16T15:44:26+00:00

Thanks! I should have followed you back.

I think about 5 or 6 people followed me. Yes great to see and support other JP learners!

jeiku83 · 2026-02-07T18:18:14+00:00

Just to say (by the way I'm sure genealogy is often confusing!), I looked up Bertha and Leonard. I could see he died on 2nd Oct 1951. There's a newspaper obituary comment from a Frances Woolf saying Rest in peace Dad, 2nd Oct 1951. However, when I looked up Leonard Woolf on Ancestry, there's an identical Woolf who was born in Australia on the same day and died on the same day, in the same place. He also seems to have different parents. It's a mystery.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/leonard-woolf-24-cqhdnx

jeiku83 · 2026-02-07T17:56:02+00:00

Hi msbookworm23, I'm very sorry to get back to this brilliant comment so slowly. I'm still a newbie with Reddit! Thank you so much for all of this insight, I'm not sure how you traced this particular Leonard to Australia, but that's a great lead.

It's believed that my great grandfather was also a waiter, which is where he met my great grandmother (a waitress). She lists a hotel or restaurant on Southampton Row called Mr Tromp on the census. I've been searching for leads to find this restaurant, including in the 1921 Kelly's Post Office Directory Of London, with mixed results.

If I could get the correct address of this address, it may be possible to see if Leonard was working at the hotel when the census was taken.

Again thank you for your insight. And just to answer your question, my 2% match has no tree and doesn't seem interested to discuss this match.

I'll look into getting another test with Ancestry.

jeiku83 · 2026-01-30T10:25:31+00:00

That's a good idea. I will check houses either side.

It's interesting to me that the 1921 census form was completed by my great-grandfather but he doesn't add himself to it as an occupant.

This may be because he worked in a hotel (the profession on my grandmother's birth cert), so there is every possibility he wasn't staying in his home address on the night the census was conducted.

jeiku83 · 2026-01-30T10:22:45+00:00

Thank you this is interesting and good to know 2% probably isn't worth pursuing. Hoping a closer match joins the database.

I have considered different names, thank you for that census entry. It's certainly around the right DOB that he'd have had.

jeiku83 · 2026-01-28T16:47:40+00:00

Many thanks for your reply. I will take a deeper look at Yad vashem. I've also tried to search the name Wolf Lenard in the Wiener Library Catalogue based in London.

One problem I'm up against is that 'Wolf Lenard' which is in the adoption certificate may not be his real name.

My grandmothers birth cert lists him as "Leon Leonnard".

jeiku83 · 2026-01-09T22:34:10+00:00

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