Sunday, 30 June 2024

Jacob Levin (1928)

Jacob Levin is my maternal uncle. Levin family HERE

Parents
Marcus Levin and Zella Greenberg

Born: 31 August 1928 in Liverpool, England. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Jacob Harold Levin (1873 - 1917)

Birth certificate for Jacob Levin who was born on 31 August 1928 at 37 Parkfield Road, Liverpool (which appears to have then been a maternity hospital). His parents are Marcus Levin a wholesale draper and Zella Levin (Nee Greenberg), living at 3 Yorke Avenue, Liverpool, England

Death: 31 August 1928 in Liverpool, England. He was a premature birth and only lived for 5 hours. Cause of death was given as asphyxia

Death certificate for Jacob Levin who died on 31 August 1928 at 37 Parkfield Road, Liverpool (which appears to have then been a maternity hospital). His father is Marcus Levin a wholesale draper living at 3 Yorke Avenue, Liverpool, England. The cause of death is given as premature birth and asphyxia and the baby lived for 5 hours

Observation
My mother never knew about her prematurely born older brother Jacob until I uncovered the documentation. As she told me, in those days one didn’t ask, and one certainly wasn’t told! Many years later, when one of my mother's friends had a child die prematurely, her mother said she would write and sent a condolence card and only then did she reveal to my mother that she too had been in the same situation many years previously, although she intimated that the child had been stillborn.