12/16/1899 to 2/6/1900 Hamburg to London on Vesta; Liverpool to Portland on SS Parisian Vesta Manifest:
Abram Kruk, Birth: 1868, married Occupation: shoemaker; Residence: Rositschi
SS Parisian: Abraham Kruch/Kruk, Birth: 1869, Passage paid by and going to join: Uncle
BTS: Most like it was David Robinson (Toby’s (half or 3/4?) brother. He arrived in US in 1892 or 1893.
June 2, 1900: Portland Maine: Bernard, Deborah, and son Cohen and cousin Abram Crook!
April 20, 1910: Sanford, Maine: Census Abraham Cook and family & boarder Joe Chase
January 8 & 9, 1920 Census 78 Dyer Street, Portland, Maine in home of Aunt Edith (Etta) Robinson
Feb 26, 2019: via email: Judith Cook (Tucker):
“My father told us that he lived in Portland for the year after his mother died because his father could not leave the family
and Portland was where there was a synagogue with a minyan, so he was sent, at the age of 13, to the aunt to say Kadish every day for a year, on his way to school.”
Letter (undated) from Irving Robinson to Sue Cook
This is a line from a Hebrew list of family births in a
Bob Cook’s Shavuot Prayer Book, published in Vilnius. Lithuania, 1844, and now held by Judith Cook Tucker.
Alexander Shmuel born 3 Iyar 5606 Wednesday 29 April 1846 in Sokol, Ukraine, 10 miles from Rozhysche. [BTS: Shmuel, father of Abram Zvi Hersch]
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