Ephraim Moss

   Another name for Ephraim was Ephraim Moses.

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. John Mors & Rosemary Szente who notes:
The name was still Moses at that time - not Moss. The article was on Abraham Moses and other jews with that name. I have copied the section that is taken from Beverley Davis's book, Be Fruitful and Multiply. In her book it is said Ephraim and Amelia Moses came out on the Nimrod. The ship was in fact the Nimroud.

"There were Jews also in the smaller townships of the Queanbeyan district.
One of these was Solomon Marks, of Bungendore, who on 3.8.1836 had married Hannah Cohen in the Bridge Street Synagogue, 14 and he had also sent a donation to the Palestine Fund.13 Solomon Moses, who had a store in Queanbeyan until 1851, moved to Bungendore to open his "Victoria, Stores."
His life, as told to us by the author, was not an easy one and also ended in tragedy. Moses was serving a population which numbered only sixty-three in the village and not more than a few hundred in the immediate dis-trict and it was not surprising that for the next ten years his career was marked by failures and frustrations. Less than a year after the opening, the Victoria Stores were in the process of selling out when the great flood of July, 1852, inundated the premises and forced Moses to take shelter at an inn. It was then another eleven months before he could finally close down, but then opened a new store, the "Beehive", which remained unsteadily in business while three competitors, Including Mr. J.
J. Wright's branch, closed one after another.
Apart from one struggling store and the few hotels, the only business in Bungendore able to survive during the 1850's was the smithy. Competition, however, could not be sustained, as Solomon Moses discovered, when he branched out as an innkeeper lit 1859, opening his spacious stone ``Beehive Hotel" next to his store at the corner of Gibraltar andMolongolo Streets. Despite the splendour of the open-ing, whith gentleman`s and ladies' races, free ball and supper, and fireworks display, his venture disturbed a delicate economic balance. The hotel had only a short trial, for Moses was drowned in Deep Creek in 1860, but it could not have prospered, for his affairs showed that he had fallen into bankruptcy in spite of the fact that most of the traffic to the Kiandra diggings had to pass the door". I have quoted this passage from the book in full to show the pioneer spirit of these early Jewish settlers who kept on staying in the country in spite of great difficulties and failures."

The family changed their name from Moses to Moss around 1868.

From 1866 to 1878 Epraim was a cigar-maker with Moss White & Co. (in Melbourne), a large importing and manufacturing firm. From 1879 Ephraim was a commercial traveller.

• Religion. Jewish

• Death Certificate Number. #2316

• cpnn. ¹⁰¹² Helen Beyer is linked to me in the following way:

Helen Beyer . . .
Her ggg grandparents were . . .
Stothart McCubbin (1837) and Rosetta Hyam (1845)
They had Rosetta McCubbin (1875) who married Alfred Moss (1870)
His father was Ephraim Moss (1834) & he also had Edward Moss (1863)
They had Nedda Moss (1893) who married Reuben Dawes (1880)
His father was Naason Dawes (1843)
His father was George Dawes (1802)
His father was Aaron Daw (1779) & he also had Edward Dawes (1813)
He had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Ephraim married Amelia (Millie) Solomon, daughter of Zodok Solomon and Phoebe Lyons, on 30 May 1855 in 20 Houndsditch, East London England (her home). (Amelia (Millie) Solomon was born on 17 Apr 1837 in London England and died on 27 Jul 1902 in 141 Sackville St, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.)