My Family history: Isaac Epstein (1884

Thursday, 11 June 2026

Isaac Epstein (1884 - 1941)

Isaac Epstein is the husband of Tilly Morris, born Tilly Dik, the sister-in-law of Rachel Levin, my 2x great aunt. Morris family HERE

Parents: Eliyahu

Born: February 1884 in Włocławek, Poland

Hebrew name: Yitzchak son of Eliyahu Yaakov

Migration: It is unknown when he first arrived in England but as I cannot find him in the 1901 census it was probably sometime after that, but before hbis marriage in 1910

Naturalization

NOTICE is hereby Given, that ISAAC EPSTEIN. of 99 Granby Street, Liverpool 8. is applying to the Home Secretary for NATURALISATION, and that any person who knows any reason why Naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. S.W. 1. (Liverpool Daily Post, Wednesday, March 30, 1938)

Isaac applied for naturalization and it was granted on 20 February 1939 (London Gazette 7 March 1939, p. 1541). His previous location is given as Palestine. His youngest child, Zahava, was born in Tel Aviv in 1927 so it is probable that the family emigrated to Palestine sometime after 1920 (when his 2nd youngest child, Sarah, was born in Liverpool, England. I don't know when they returned to England

Occupation: Draper and clothier, then a master butcher. According to his great nephew, David Morris, he was very religious.

Married: Tilly Morris in (January - March) 1910 in Liverpool, England

Children

Their first child was born in 1911 when Isaac was 27 and Tilly 24 years old and their last child was born in 1927 when Isaac was 43 and Tilly 40 years old

Baruch Epstein 1911 - 1982
Leah Epstein 1913 - 1985
Naphtali Epstein 1914 - 2000
Esther Epstein 1915 - 2013
Sarah Epstein 1920 - 2003
Zahava Epstein 1927 - 2024

Census

1911

In the 1911 census taken on 2 April that year, Tilly and Isaac have been married for one year and are living in a 6 room dwelling at 15 Vine Street, Liverpool, England. Isaac is age 26 and a travelling draper and clothier on his own account and Tilly is a housewife age 24. Living with them is their infant son Baruch who was born on 12 March 1911. Also living there is a boarder, Milly Morris age 21 who is a dressmaker, and a domestic servant, Maggie Graley, age 15

1921

In the 1921 census taken on 19 June 1921, Tilly and Isaac are living in a 6 room dwelling at 48 Erskine Street, Liverpool, England. Isaac is age 37 years and four months and a travelling draper and clothier working from home. His place of birth is given as Wloclawek, Poland.Tilly is a housewife age 35 years and six months and born in Poneviezys, Lithuania. Their children are Boruch age 10 years and four months, Leah age 8 years and 10 months, Naphtali age 7 years and one month, Esther age 6 years and one month, Sarah age 1 year and one month

1939 Register

In 1939 the family are living at 99 Granby Street, Liverpool, England. Isaac is now a master butcher with his own business. Living with Isaac and Tilly are their children Leah and Esther who both work in the family butchery, and Sara. Baruch and Naftali had already emigrated to Palestine

Directory

1911

In the 1911 directory Isaac is listed as a draper at 15 Vine Street, Liverpool, England

1938

In the 1938 directory Isaac is listed as a butcher at 99 Granby Street, Liverpool, England

Death

1 April 1941 in Liverpool, England, age 58. He is buried in the Rice Lane Cemetery there, plot B35:02

Tombstone for Isaac. The Hebrew translation is: "

Liverpool Jewish burial record for Isaac

Probate

RE ISAAC EPSTEIN, Deceased.-Will any Persons having Claims against the Estate of ISAAC EPSTEIN deceased late of 99 Granby Street in the City of Liverpool, Butcher, who died on the First day of April 1941 please send particulars thereof to me the undersigned the Solicitor for the proposed Administratrix. Dated this Twenty-seventh day of May 1941.

S. B. LEVIN, Bank Chambers, 3 Cook Street, Liverpool (Liverpool Echo, Wednesday, May 28, 1941). Simon Bernard Levin was the nephew, by marriage, of Isaac's wife Tilly)

EPSTEIN Isaac of 99 Granby-street Liverpool died 1 April 1941 Administration Liverpool 3 July [1941] to Tillie Epstein widow. Effects £772 7s. ld.

ISAAC EPSTEIN. Deceased. Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925. All persons having Claims against the Estate of ISAAC EPSTEIN deceased late of 99 Granby Street in the City of Liverpool who died on the First day of April 1941 and to whose estate Letters of Administration were granted out of the District Probate Registry at Liverpool on the Third day of July 1941 to Tillie Epstein are required to send particulars thereof in writing to the undersigned on or before the Sixteenth day of October next after which date the Administratrix will proceed to distribute the assets having regard only to the claims of which she shall then have had notice.

S. B. LEVIN, 3 Cook Street, Liverpool 2. Solicitor for the said Administratrix. (Liverpool Echo, Friday, August 22, 1941).

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