SIMCHA name in English?

[Miriam Margolyes]

Dear Jenners,

The joy of finding my SA relatives through this very Digest
(SANDEMAN descendents) now brings puzzles.
Our common great-grandfather is Simcha SANDEMAN-the name on his wife's
gravestone in Stellawood Cemetery, Durban, RSA.

On two different UK birth certificates, he is described as Samuel & Simon.
Could both these names be the English attempt at Simcha?

If not, then we have to presume that there were two different fathers
of two young Sandeman babies!! The wife is always constant-& I notice
that is it she who brings the child in to register-probably because the man
was working.

Grateful for comments-Miriam Margolyes
e-mail: 75342...@compuserve.com
(Santa Monica)

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[Seysalt]

My grandfather's name was Simcha. There are six of us named after him; 3
grandsons, Simon, Seymour, Stanley, and 3 great grandsons, Saul, Simcha and
Simcha. I would suggest that there is no one English name for Simcha, which is
is used, incidentally, as such in Yiddish and Hebrew.

Seymour H. Saltzman

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Seymour Saltzman wrote:
> My grandfather's name was Simcha. There are six of us named after him; 3
> grandsons, Simon, Seymour, Stanley, and 3 great grandsons, Saul, Simcha and
> Simcha. I would suggest that there is no one English name for Simcha, which
is
> is used, incidentally, as such in Yiddish and Hebrew.

Absolutely right. I know a Simcha who is called Cecil. Incidentally I
think Simcha can be used as a name for a female too.

Murray Freedman
Leeds, England

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[Ben Noach]

In my case:-

My father's name was Simcha, but officially he was called Salomon Mozes
(Dutch).Salomon may therefore be a proper equivalent for "Simcha".

He was born on the evening of Tisha be-Av(a day of mourning), and Simcha
meaning Joy, this was the reason for giving this name.So far the tradition.
But my research showed that the gravestone of his grandfather Salomon
Noach also gave "Simcha" as the Hebrew equivalent, so again I think that
Salomon can be seen as the proper equivalent of the Hebrew/Yiddish Simcha.

Shalom from Israel,

BEN NOACH
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Seymour Saltzman wrote:

> My grandfather's name was Simcha. There are six of us named after him; 3
> grandsons, Simon, Seymour, Stanley, and 3 great grandsons, Saul, Simcha and
> Simcha. I would suggest that there is no one English name for Simcha, which is
> is used, incidentally, as such in Yiddish and Hebrew.