Thursday, 1 October 2026

Sarah Epstein (1920 - 2003)

Sarah Epstein (שרה אבני) is the daughter of Tilly Morris, born Tilly Dik, the sister-in-law of Rachel Levin, my 2x great aunt. Morris family HERE

Parents: Isaac Epstein (1884 - 1941) and Tilly Morris (1886 - 1981)

Tombstones for Sarah's parents. Isaac is buried in the Rice Lane Cemetery in Liverpool, England and Tilly (Tova) in Westpark Cemetery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Born: 15 May 1920  in Liverpool, England

Siblings

Hebrew name: Sara daughter of Yitzhak

Married: Michael Marcus in (April - June) 1941, in Liverpool, England. Sarah and Michael were both age 21. Michael later changed his surname to Avni

Children
Their first child was born in 1942 when Sarah and Michael were both age 22
  • Aviva Avni (1942 - 2000)
  • Jonathan Simon Avni

Census
1921
In the 1921 census taken on 19 June 1921, Sarah's parents 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. The family had moved to Palestine in the mid-1920s but had returned to Liverpool in the early to mid-1930s due to their poor financial situation


Migration to Palestine
On 25 October 1924 the family departed Liverpool, England and sailed to Port Said, Egypt on the way to Palestine aboard the California. The family was headed by Sara Epstein age 24, a sales lady, who I can only assume was an unmarried sister of Esther's father Isaac. The children were Baruch age 13, Lilly (Leah) age 11, Naphtali age 10, Esther age 9 and Sarah age 4. The family struggled in Palestine and returned to Liverpool in the mid-1930s but Naphtali remained behind.

Death
Sarah died on 16 October 2003 in Israel, age 83. She is buried in the Herzliya Pinsker Old Cemetery, Pinsker Street, Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Block ו, Plot א, Row 16, Spot 21

Tombstone for Sarah. The large אבני at the head of the grave is simply AVNI

פ״נ
שרה אבני
לבית אפשטיין
צנועה ואשת חיל

Here lies
Sarah Avni
née Epstein
a modest woman and a woman of valour

1920–2003
תר״פ – תשס״ד
ת נ צ ב ״ ה

The Hebrew years are 5680–5764, corresponding to 1920–2003/04. The final abbreviation is the conventional תנצב״ה, Tehe nishmata tzrura bitzror hachayim — “May her soul be bound in the bond of life.”

JewishGen burial record for Sarah

Residences

In the 1921 census the family are living at 48 Erskine Street, Liverpool, England. The building no longer exists


In around 1936 until her marriage in 1941 Sarah lived with her family at 99 Granby Street, Liverpool, England
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