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THE ENGLISH NOARS

This is another Jewish branch of Noar that has not yet been proven to be connected to the Noar family descended from Itzak > Hillel Noar.  However, maybe in time......................

Recent research results on the origins of this branch can be read at Research Report .   This research was done mostly at the archives in Saint Petersburg, Russia .  Opportunities for further research are explained at the bottom of the report.

In the late 1800's  there were 4 siblings who immigrated from Russia, near St. Petersburg , to England and America.  The ancestral village of the family was Vabolnik , Lithuania .  The oldest, Joseph, went to England with the name Noar.  Two of Joseph's brothers, Joshua and Jacob, ended up in America with the the surname Norr.  A sister, Lizzie, went first to England and then to America along with her husband Maurice Caplan.  At this point I will only relate the tale of Joseph since it is his descendants which have the Noar name.

Joseph Noar was born in 1840 in Russia .   He was a tailor in St. Petersburg, making uniforms for the Czar's officers.  In 1886 he immigrated from Russia to England along with his eldest son, Israel (16). Joseph was looking for a better life while Israel was of age for conscription.  Joseph found work in the tailoring department of the Co-operative Society of Manchester.

Two years later he was able to bring over his wife, Belle (Baile) and other 6 children:
Lubbie (the oldest)
Eli (13)
Dora (8-9 )
Leah (6)
Maurice (3)
Leslie (1)
Unfortunately, Belle died within 1 year of arriving in England.  Joseph remarried, to Rosie , who gave birth to twins who died as children.

1. Lubbie Noar  (b ~1866) married a man named Abrahams and had 7 children:  Fanny , Louis ,
    Abraham ,  Sarah , Solly , Bella , and Maurice .  They were very poor.  Lubbie died in 1926 at
    age 60.
     - Fanny married a man named Cohen.  They made a living out of a shpayzkrom (small
       grocery store).   They had 2 children one of whom was Lewis, who went on to be the
       Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics in London .
     - Louis died in WW I in 1916.
     - Abraham remained a bachelor and worked for his uncle Leslie Noar as a collector in his
       Money Lending and Credit Drapery Business.  He changed his name to Arthur Ambrose.
     - Sarah also did not marry and earned her living a a sewing machinist.
     - Solly was also a bachelor and worked for his uncle Leslie .
     - Maurice was a factory manager for the Kindler Raincoat Manufacturers.  He married a
       widow, Leah Coddle and had step daughter Rita .  They had 2 further girls, Sheila and
        Pamela .  Sheila earned high honours as a academic in Australia.
        - Rita married Sidney Bubb in 1949.  They had 2 children, Janice and Carl .
             - Janice married Sid Ackerman .  They have 2 children, Robert and Lauren .
        - Sheila married Keith Davies and had a son Michael .
        - Pamela married Ivor Deach and had 2 daughters, Andrea and Melanie .
         - Andrea married Eric Sayers and have 2 children, Rachelle and Elliot .
             - Melanie married Philip Lisberg and has a son named Abe .

2. Israel Noar (b ~1870) married Annie Sablowski and had 6 children:  Lionel , Maurice , Sidney ,
    Lawrence ,  Jenny , and Mae .
    - Lionel was a bachelor who made his living as a bookie's runner.
    - Maurice was a Post Office Clerk and was married to Elsie. They had a daughter named
      Joan who had 2 children Irvin and Elisa .
         - Irvin married Barbara and has two boys Adam and Oliver .
         - Elisa married Ian and has two girls Danielle and Caroline

                - Danielle married Miguel and has a daughter Lucia

                - Caroline married Sab

    - Sidney built up a successful textile business in Manchester.  He married Dorothy and
       had 3 children Joseph Barry , Vicky , and Annette .
        - Joseph Barry emigrated to Santa Barbara, Ca. and then on to San Diego .  He is married
          to Johnina .  They have 2 sons, Adam  and Kevin .
        - Vicky married a man called Levy and has 3 children Samuel , Suzanne , and Natalie .
        - Annette married David Cowley and has 2 sons Jack and Tom.  Annette remarried to Dean Murphy.

     - Lawrence was a jeweler who married Gina
    - Jennie married Walter Goodman .  They had a daughter called Denyse and emigrated to the
      US.   Denyse has a son called Zev
    -  Mae married Abe Mendelsohn who was in the Canadian Airforce and emigrated to
      Canada.  Mae passed away this past Dec. 4, 1999.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Eli Noar (b~1875) married Sarah Weinstein and worked as a tailor.  They had 8 children:
    David , Bella , Ida , Nora ,  Rita , Leonard , Annie , and Neville. Of these, only Annie is
    still alive.  Bella passed away November 28 1999, at the age of 97.
 

-  David Noar married  Charlotte (Lottie) Hannah Stohler and had 2 sons, Geoffrey and
    Michael.  David was in various businesses.  He started off in money lending, sold film
    advertising, did chromium plating for the motor trade, antiques, as a jobbing printer.  In later
    years he owned and controlled several profitable bingo halls.
    - Geoffrey Noar was convinced by his father to become a dentist instead of as an actor.  He
       has 3 children Richard , Elizabeth and Kathy .
  - Richard is married to Maxine Johnson.
  - Elizabeth is married to John O'Brien.  They have 3 sons, Thomas , Joseph and David
       - Kathy is married to Doug Thomson .  They have 2 children, Jessica and Joel .
 

 

 

 

    - Michael Noar  married Michele Silverstone .  He started out taking over his father's print
       works but later moved to the Toronto, Canada area.    They have 2 daughters, Debby and
       Victoria (Vikki).   Debby and Vikki live in Toronto .  Michael passed away
        in Toronto on 1/5/01.
        - Debby has 2 children, Micha and Sofie.
 

 

 

- Bella married Johnnie Montague and was widowed at age 26.  She had a sweet shop and
     later worked as a secretary.  She had a daughter Fay .
   - Ida had a very successful boutique until she married Hymie Jacobs (Joe Jackson).  They
     had 2 daughters and a son.
   - Nora married Bernard Spiro and had 2 children.
   - Rita married David Bellovitch .  They had 2 sons Tony and Brian .
   - Leonard died at age 6 of meningitis.
   - Annie married Louis Samson .  They had 2 children Elaine and Paul .
   - Neville died in infancy.

4. Dora Noar (b~1880) married a man named Cohen.  They had 6 children:  Bella , Myer , Rose ,
    Joseph , Ralph , and Cissie .
    - Bella married a kosher butcher, Judd Samuels .
    - Meyer was a watchmaker and married Hilda Jacobson .
    - Rose married Alec Berlyne who had a glass business.
    - Joseph married Hilda Gottlieb and changed his name to Joe Carr.
    - Cissie married a man called Kessler .

5. Leah Noar (b~1882) married Abe Goodenday .  They had 2 children: Anne and Lionel .
     - Anne married Harold Rosenberg , who was a "klapper".  A klapper knocks on doors seeking
      to purchase second hand silver or jewelry.  They had 2 daughters, Louise and Rosalynd .
      - Louise (Ellman) is a member of Parliament representing Liverpool Riverside.
    - Lionel was a Hire Purchase Financier and passed away in 1999.

6. Maurice Noar (b.1886 Russia; D.1969 Manchester) married Rebecca Gertler (b.1890 Bessarabia; d.1981 Manchester) and was a traveler for a raincoat
    manufacturer.  They had 4 children:  Ralph, Rosabelle , Ralph, Jackie, and Michael .                                                                                                                                    - Ralph became an optician and married Sylvia Ring.  They had two children Diane and Stephen.  Stephen started Denplan, a dental insurance company.             - Rosabelle was a secretary at a chemical factory where she met her husband Arthur Woolf. They had three children: Janet, Veronica, Eleanor.                                        - Jackie was a research chemist and married Carol.  They had two children; Alan and Clifford.                                                                                                                    - Michael , an optician, married Rita Freedman, a ballet dancer.  They had two children Martin and Amanda  Their daughter Amanda is a well known actress in England.

 

7. Leslie Noar (b~1887) married Annie Rydie and had 3 children:  Joseph , Rita , and Arthur .  He
    worked in the money lending business before switching over to credit drapery.  Finally, he
    ended up with a first flour suite in the centre of Manchester with a tailor business.
     - Joseph joined the Merchant Navy as a radio officer at the outbreak of WW II and was
      torpedoed.  Not wanting to experience that again, he joined the Royal Air Force as a bomb
      aimer and died in a midair collision in 1942.
    - Rita became a worker in a war factory repairing tanks during WW II.  She later was
      conscripted into the ATS as a female soldier.  After the war she married Leslie Greenburgh
      a watch and clock importer and wholesaler.  They had 2 daughters, Ruth and Joan .
       - Ruth married Michael Harris .
       - Joan married Stephen Waldek .  They had 4 children, on of whom is Daniel .
    - Arthur married Pamela Harris in 1953 and became a doctor in general practice.  They had a
      son Joseph .  Arthur died in 1994.
        - Joseph married Sara Portnoy (a child psychologist) in 1987.  He is an orthodontist.
          Along with his practice, he teaches orthodontics at the University of London . Joseph and
         Sara have 3 children: Alexander(4/1/94), Benjamin(13/10/97), and Jacob (25/10/01).
 
 

 
 

 

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