MY JACOB FAMILY
by Kenneth Jacob
Please listen to the Introduction to this site.
FAMILY TREES and HISTORIES of Jacob families.
FAMILY TREES of other families.
INDICES to names contained in the above.
ARTICLES on history and family history.
MANUSCRIPTS of interest to the historian and family historian. NEW additions
QUICK LINKS
FILM AND VIDEO FOOTAGE: 1920s - 1980s.
BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN JACOB CB, his life and times.
EDWARD JACOB FSA, of Faversham, Kent.
NOTABLE MEMBERS OF FAMILIES OTHER THAN JACOB.
PROMINENT PEOPLE IN SIND, PAKISTAN.
PHOTOGRAPHS: There are some 1000 images on this site, but miscellaneous ones can be found here, starting with views of ADEN and YEMEN, ca 1915-1924.
PHOTOGRAPHS: A young Kim Philby. Who would have thought he would become one of Britain's most notorious Soviet double agents?
PORTRAITS: Three 18th century portraits of members of a Gostling family from Canterbury, together with a brief family history by Eliza Susanna Jacob (1836-1913).
A MUMMY'S SHROUD: Part of a shroud of the mummy of a priest called HAR, 16th dynasty, ca 900BC.
JACOB'S CREEK: A well-known branded wine, but after whom was it named?
JACOBS BISCUITS: But who made them? For the pedigree of this family click HERE.
ORAL HISTORY: The first of a number of recordings I shall post. This is of my grandmother Ellen Jacob in 1974 speaking about Lawrence of Arabia.
INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE to the second edition of 'A History of Families of Jacob' in 1894, by Archibald Hamilton Jacob; it never appeared.
INTERESTING PEOPLE I have known.
Contact: Email
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