Brief Life History of Joseph
Joseph Epstein was born in July 1898. He married Annie Beatrice Moshal on 29 August 1948, in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He died in January 1986, at the age of 87.
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- Joseph Epstein, "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Emanuel, Isadore, Moshe, Aron, Chaim, Meyer, Shlomo, Yoav, Ari.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the places called Eppstein, for example in the Palatinate and Hesse, from Old High German ebur ‘wild boar’ + stein ‘stone’.
History: This is one of the old Ashkenazic surnames. In Eastern Europe, it was used by rabbinical families well before the mass adoption of surnames by local Jews at the turn of the 19th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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