Nigel Saperia
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Electronic mail address
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nsaperia@yahoo.co.uk
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Mobile phone
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(44) 7867 794 022
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1954
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Born, London,
England to
Joseph & Gwendoline Saperia.
Siblings Anne, Melanie & Malcolm
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1975
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BA, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, New College Oxford.
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1975-1979
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Worked in Singapore
for Shell, met wife (Helen Loke).
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1979-1984
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Worked in Holland
for Shell, 1st child (Tuesday Jade).
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1985-2006
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Lived and worked in London,
for Solomon Inc, Bankers Trust & Glencore, 2nd
child (Edward).
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2007-2013
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Gave up work, got divorced, moved to Buenos Aires, became a student at the UBA
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2013-now
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Live in Andorra, remarried (Nerea
Gutiérrez), 3rd child (Olivia)
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Sport (golf & cricket)
After devoting much time to golf
and cricket, have decided life is more fun if I swim, cycle and play tennis.
Economics & Trading
Prefer gambling on real world
events to the throw of a dice or turn of a card (though have represented Singapore at
bridge and played on the Merit European backgammon circuit in my time too).
Politics
Dirty business but fascinating...
Languages
Will I ever become fluent in
Spanish? Que sé yo.
Family
The earliest male
ancestor we know of was Joseph Saperia, one of two
children (the other, his brother, was stabbed and killed whilst relatively
young). We are not sure of his birthplace (Suwalki?).
He emigrated to Leeds,
England, in 1888
to work as a tailors machinist. He married Rachel Harris in Belgrave
St Synagogue on 14th June, 1891. The marriage record gives his age as 24 and
his address as 89 Byron St.
Rachel, a tailoress, was aged 22, the daughter of
Solomon Harris, a tailors presser. Their name was probably
changed to Harris from Hirsh; she was the sister of Myer Harris/Hirsh, with
whom she lived. Rachel gave birth to my grandfather, Menasseh,
on 14th March, 1896. Their address at the time was 51 Back Nile St. In 1898, Joseph died in Leeds,
whereupon Rachel returned with Menasseh to the Bialystok area , where apparently her family hailed from. Menasseh lived on in Bialystok
and married Jean (Szena) Wolfe, who gave birth to Joseph
(my father) in 1923. Menasseh and Jean emigrated to Belfast,
Northern Ireland,
in 1925, where Menasseh worked as a draper. They chose
Belfast on the
recommendation of a family friend, Jack Puchinski, who
had settled there previously. Menasseh died in March
1956 in Belfast.
My father emigrated to London,
England in 1949, to further his
medical studies, and has lived in London
ever since.
My father had two
brothers, Jack and Mark. Jack, who died ten years ago, had two daughters,
Debbie (in Israel) and Myhal (just returned to London
from San Francisco).
Mark, who lives in Johannesburg
with his wife Gail, has three children. Jeremy is an engineer, currently living
in Singapore.
Martin lives in Manchester, England and Lisa is in Johannesburg.
I have two sisters and
a brother. Anne, married to Phillip Silkoff, lives in
the USA.
Melanie, married to Simon Coberman, lives in London, England.
Malcolm, married to Martine Lovell, is a teacher in Nottingham, England.
All have children. I have a son (Edward) and two daughters, Tuesday and Olivia.
Tuesday is married to Carlo Reitano; she has two children,
Giorgio and Valentina.
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4 Generations of my family
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Menasseh
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Joseph
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Nigel
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Edward
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Birth Certificate
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Last revised: March 18, 2007.
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