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Question:My great grandfather was Alfred Daniel Capon., born Kent in 1850 & emigrated to USA in1909 to New Jersey.
Have tried Jewish genealogy sites but find them hard to handle. I know Capon is a Sephardic name. Please can anyone help???


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My great grandfather was Alfred Daniel Capon., born Kent in 1850 & emigrated to USA in1909 to New Jersey.
Have tried Jewish genealogy sites but find them hard to handle. I know Capon is a Sephardic name. Please can anyone help???

Instead of going to Jewish Genealogy sites, two people I can recommend are Charles Tucker who is the archivist for the Beth Din in London, and Dr. Anthony Joseph who lives in Birmingham.
Charles is a pukka Record Searcher (with charges) and has access to sources unavailable to the rest of us (like the Chief Rabbi's records).
Anthony is a very helpful guy, President of the Midlands Jewish Genealogical Society - he lectures all over the World.
Both have web sites should you want to investigate further.
I'd start with Anthony and tell him Roni suggested contacting him for advice about your hunch.

This information came from www.ancestry.com
Capon Name Meaning and History
Spanish (Capón): from Spanish capón ‘capon’, applied as a derogatory nickname for a feeble man or a cuckold.
French: nickname (see 1 above) from capon ‘capon’, a southern, Norman, and Picard equivalent of standard French chapon.
I think this is possibly one of the best sites there is for name origins.
What information are you searching for, are you trying to find confirmation about the Jewish blood link or what other information are you searching for.

Capon is French and Spanish: Spanish (Capón): from Spanish capón ‘capon’, applied as a derogatory nickname for a feeble man or a cuckold.
French: nickname from capon ‘capon’, a southern, Norman, and Picard equivalent of standard French chapon.
There are immigrants from England, Ireland, Belgium and Holland in the census on ancestry.com.

I could not find any Jewish references.

I would check out different possible spellings or alternatives.
good name sites are:
www.avotaynu.com
www.jewishgen.org/Sephardic/index.htm
Also read the traditions of naming Jewish people from:
www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faq.hmtl

WOW he emigrated at 59?