The Hart/Saltiel Connection

It's amazing what you can "prove" about history when creating a family tree.  I am trying to prove that E. H. Saltiel and E. S. Hart were cousins.

We know from the bigamy case that Eleazer Hart at 20 White Lion Street was the uncle of Jane Harris Saltiel so what did I do?  I searched that address.  And from that single web search which snowballed into numerous other sites, I was able to create this family tree.

Is it accurate?  Well, here are some proofs:

1)  We know that Eleazer was Jane's uncle - that fits.

2)  If you look at the 3rd generation - those in yellow, each person across the board named their first son Judah, after their father who had passed away.  Consistent with Ashkenazi naming practices. This would be the 4th generation - they are the green boxes.

3)  In the 1871 England Census, Nathan Minden, his wife Hannah and their children, Evaline, Kate, Michael and Sarah are living in the house of Rachael A. Harris with her daughter, Jane Saltiel.  Now go down the list of Aaron's children and you will find Hannah Hart, Rachel's niece, married to Nathan Minden with those 4 children.

Remember, you can click on an image to enlarge it.

Where is E. S. Hart who was at Cotopaxi?  We know his name was Eleazer Samuel Hart and that he was born in London in 1832.  We know that Ashkenazi Jews do not name their children after living ancestors.  So he could not be the son of Eleazer Hart 1791-1857, the brother of Rachel Hart.


If you look at the children of Michael Hart, another brother of Rachel, and you go down the list, we find a Samuel Hart born in 1832.  Is this our E. S. Hart?

Let's look at the names he used:

Samuel Hart -     ship's manifest, 1854
Eleasa   Hart -    1875 New York Census
Saml. Hart    -     1880 Census
Eleazar S. Hart - 1888 Denver Directory
E. Samuel Hart - 1892 Denver Directory
Samuel Hart -     1894 Denver Directory
Samuel Hart -     1900 Census
Eleazier Hart -    1907 Cook county death index

He was 22 when he came to America.  There isn't much on him in England prior to that.  If we put him in as the son of Michael Hart, that makes him a 1st cousin to Jane Harris Saltiel and a 1st cousin once removed to E. H. Saltiel.  We used to count that as a second cousin.

I think we have a good match.  I will continue to research this aspect as I have time.

Just a couple of side notes.  When doing my research I came across a website that claimed in London in the 1850s, reform Judaism was coming into play and Jew were not necessarily sticking to their custom of never naming a child after a living relative.  In this tree, we see many children with names identical to living relatives.  We need to keep in mind that each child had a Hebrew name and it is the Hebrew name that could not be giving to a living relative - not the anglicized name.

Most of the 3rd generation (green) was born in Middlesex which includes Spitalfields, Strand, Nottingham, Whitechapel, Edmonton, Adgate and other small villages.

We have already discussed why Rachel went to Bath.  To escape the stigma of the bigamy trial. To reside in an Ashkenazi community.

From the above tree, you can see that I've found her son, Judah Lewis Harris living there as wall.  His first 6 children were born there.  But Isaac and Solomon were born in Middlesex starting in 1859 which coincides with the time Rachel, Jane and Emanuel moved back to the Middlesex area.

Emanuel Harris Saltiel was clearly named after his mother's father.  His grandmother, Rachel Hart Harris, was still living in the 1871 census.

Aaron named his daughter Rachel in  1830.

Aaron's son, Emmanuel Hart, named his daughter Rachel Hart in 1854.

Aaron's daughter, Hannah, who lived with Rachel Hart Harris, named her daughter Rachel Minden in 1855.

Did the concept of not naming after the living apply to men only?  Or did all 3 of these women have different Hebrew names?

For now, I think we have a fairly good family tree and a connection between the Harts and the Saltiels.

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