It might be worth checking the Coles' Emporium in Melbourne. It may have been the gamechanger.
Also, the A Polack in your clip is the other A Polack - came to Sydney as a convict in the 1820s and became very rich. His descendants lost their Judaism. My A Polack came out a bit later (to Melbourne as a free convict) and *his* descendents are mostly still Jewish. There were members of the other family in Canberra when I moved here and we solved the conundrum of Jewish Abraham Polacks in Australia in the 19th century, for it really looked as if it was one person from a distance. The Sydney one was rather well known and not always entirely respectable. The Melbourne one was a respected pawnbroker whose only appearance in newspapers appears to have been social events (when, say, his wife and daughters attend a Function) and when he gave evidence in court. The generations are long in that side of my family, for he was my great-grandfather.
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Date: 2014-03-16 10:08 pm (UTC)Also, the A Polack in your clip is the other A Polack - came to Sydney as a convict in the 1820s and became very rich. His descendants lost their Judaism. My A Polack came out a bit later (to Melbourne as a free convict) and *his* descendents are mostly still Jewish. There were members of the other family in Canberra when I moved here and we solved the conundrum of Jewish Abraham Polacks in Australia in the 19th century, for it really looked as if it was one person from a distance. The Sydney one was rather well known and not always entirely respectable. The Melbourne one was a respected pawnbroker whose only appearance in newspapers appears to have been social events (when, say, his wife and daughters attend a Function) and when he gave evidence in court. The generations are long in that side of my family, for he was my great-grandfather.