Another brother for Aaron

[lynn cates]

respectable

Hello Robert. Thanks. I had the impression they were related.

Very respectable family--Martin, I think, contributed to various Jewish relief projects.

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

Hi Lynn

Yes, respectable but like anyone in trade, Martin had his ups and downs financially. Chris George wrote an article about him in one of the Rips c.2002.

[robhouse]

Jewish Chronicle, March 16, 1888

"Jewish Working Men’s Club - A concert was given on Sunday last, in which the following took part: the Misses Jessie Kosminski, D Solomon, Kate Cohen, A. Cortez, Messrs. Tom Squire, R Ganthony, J.B. Helmsly, S.B. Garcia, M Moscowitz, H.T. Davis, B Cohen and H Wasserzug."

[auntyjoan]

Martin's family

Hi, I've just posted all of Martin and Samuel's siblings and family details on the main Kosminski thread which you might like to read. Yes, Jessie was one of Martin's children. I didn't know she was an accomplished pianist, thanks for the detail.

Many of this branch were quite well to do. I have a photo of Ada, Martin's married sister, at her home in Norfolk Rd, Dalston/Stoke Newington, with the car and the chauffeur! She was getting on in years by then. Unfortunately I don't know where the photo is, still packed in cases in the garage I suspect. One of Ada's grandson's Jacob/Jack Stevens stage name was Harry Dent. I am reliably informed he was well known in his day - obviously musical talent ran in the family!

[Robert]

Hi Joan

Yes, there is a Times item in which he is on the same bill as George Formby snr. And here's a link to a Leeds playbill :

http://www.leodis.net/playbills/item.asp?ri=200349_72887820

[auntyjoan]

Fabulous, thank you for that! Yes, he did double act with his wife Fanny. Somewhere in the files I have a little anecdote about them, I think they used to go round to the house in Norfolk Rd alot, as they all probably did. My elderly neigbhour will be impressed, he loves George Formby!

[Robert]

Hi Joan

This would be George Formby's dad. I once heard on the radio an early recording by George Formby senior. If I remember right, he came across as a bit lugubrious, and original, for he did something unusual at the time, and that was to talk out the record - he ended by saying something like "Well, I must be off home now, I've got to go and get my dinner...."