Nigella Lawson Shocked By Family That Disappeared | Who Do You Think You Are
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- Nigella Lawson is shocked to discover that two children apparently vanished from the archival records. Could something bad have happened? Nigella goes to search the family records centre in hope of finding answers.
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Nigella knows quite a lot about her background, mainly because several of her ancestors are quite famous figures. For a start, her father, Nigel Lawson, was Margaret Thatcher's chancellor of the exchequer for many years, while her mother, Vanessa Salmon, was an heiress born into the Lyons Coffee House dynasty. As a British institution, Nigella is acquainted with the history of the company. Instead of trading in tea, they originally sold tobacco under the name Salmon and Gluckstein. But what can she find out about her relatives who started the business? And what about other branches of her family? Are there Jewish connections, as she suspects?
She started with her mother's family, the Salmons, and their links to Lyons. Her grandfather, Felix Salmon, was instrumental in running the company and shaping its direction towards the famous Lyons cornerhouse tearooms. Travelling around London, many of today's famous landmark buildings, such as the Trocadero and Hard Rock Café, were formerly in possession of Lyons. Yet despite his success, Felix Salmon was a melancholy man, and one possible cause could be his wartime role. He was a member of the catering corps, and it appears from research at the Imperial War Museum that he might have been attached to one of the regiments that liberated the German concentration camp at Belsen. One cannot begin to imagine the trauma of the event, particularly for a Jew in the catering corps, responsible for famine relief for the liberated inmates.
Nigella continued to investigate the history of the company, turning her attention to Salmon and Gluckstein, the tobacco sellers, who claimed to be the largest in Europe at their launch in 1873.
One of the founding fathers was her great-great-grandfather, Barnett Salmon. His surname was originally Solomon. On the 1841 census it transpired that his father Aaron Solomon was a clothes dealer in the East End. Barnett started work as a travelling tobacco salesman. He married Helena Gluckstein in 1863, and went into business with his father-in-law, Samuel Gluckstein.
It was on the back of the success as a tobacco company that Lyons was born in 1889. To ensure none of his family was ever threatened with poverty he set up a family fund, but equally insisted that none of the women were allowed to work. At his death, Barnett was worth £3.5 million in today's money, and set up a trust fund for his wife worth £34 million.
The Glucksteins had become naturalised citizens in 1861. Samuel originally hailed from Germany and his wife Hannah was from the Netherlands. Like Barnett Salmon, his early years in this country were very humble, based also in the East End among the Jewish community.
Nigella visited Samuel's place of birth in Rheinberg and discovered his birth certificate. It revealed the name of his father, Lehmann, along with the fact that he was a professor of languages. But her travels were not over. Samuel's wife, Hannah Joseph, was born in Amsterdam and Nigella had a hunch that she was part of an ethnic group of Sephardic Jews who had travelled from Spain and Portugal in the 16th century.
Hannah's original surname was Sammes, but that name was of Dutch Israeli background, suggesting she belonged to the north European Ashkenazi ethnic group. Yet Nigella's disappointment was tempered by the fact that the meaning of Sammes derived from 'carer of the synagogue', a position of great respect in the community.
By contrast, Hannah's father, Coennraad, had been accused of theft and had been tried, convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in 1830. He never served his sentence, instead fleeing the country and turning up with his family in England. Without his flight, Hannah would not have come to England.
Clearly he worked his way out of that childhood of hardship, malnutrition and death so that his own children and descendants might never face the same misery.
I wish the US had taken that good of death records across the states. Heck, my 2x great grandmother was one of the 5 siblings that lived to adulthood out of 15. This was 1881-1900 Eastern TN and no records or graves exists of the deceased children’s names let alone death dates. Incredible poverty in that rural region.
You would have to find out exactly where they lived and go to the cemeteries there,just start looking at headstones..
Hopefully there not weathered away..
If you find Churches around where they lived they have baptismal death and burial records, that's when you would find out more.
TN didn't start keeping death records until 1908
@@starriderkittykat9064 Churches in the US do not have the extensive records that exist in many parts of Europe and the UK. Because the "Church" was established by the government, they kept those kinds of records. In the US, many "churches" are financed and kept running by the congregation...no government entities are allowed.
Not modest at all.especially in the days when people had paupers graves or no gravestones.
But he worked his way up in the days when class mattered and money was passed down in families.
Well done him.x
What a beautiful store
I am always smitten with Nigella.
Me too 😍
Barney worked hard to lift his family out of poverty.
My Grandmother had 13 children from early 1920 to the early 40s,my mom was born in 1939.
They Lived in a very poor neighborhood in Providence RI, and all her children survived,
But I know at some point some of her children were put into an orphanage for about a year because she had so many and all the little babies needed attention.
My mom was one that was sent there.
My Grandma got all her children back and must had had allot of Grandchildren and great grandchildren.
My Grandparents on my mom's side came from the Azores in Portugal and on my father's side they came from Sweden,im third generation in the United States..
I can trace my 25 Great Grandfather back to 1130s,he was Earl of Orkny island in Scotland,
He is now St Ronald,his name is Rögnvald Kali Kolsson and am trying to find out about his parents,I know that he was a Knight's Templar and wrote part of the Viking Saga's..
And someone in my family was a Free Mason and helped build the Rosslyn Chapel..
I love to find out more about them and on my mom's side,I know nothing about..
She is soo dear though ~
@3:28 He looks exactly like Einstein!
@3:21 Wow... her distant relative Joseph Lyons looks a lot like Albert Einstein (with well done hair that is... wink)!!!
OR probably Einstein looked a lot like Joseph since the Prof. was born in 1879.
I'm laughing to myself about the fact that the lovely Nigella believes that her Great x 2 Grandfather, Barnett Salmon's grave is "modest". It is the opposite of that and would have cost a fortune both then and now.
I think she means plain and not ornate: by the standards of High Victoriana, it is quite simple.
Shows how rich you are to look at THAT grave as modest!
Sadly, no birth control either...
She seemed only interested in knowing if her family were rich.
Who cares?