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==Ancestry== <!-- Put references into this article or your edit will be deleted --> Epstein's grandfather, Isaac Epstein, was [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian-Jewish]]. He arrived in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in the 1890s at the age of eighteen, from what was then part of the [[Russian Empire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/50-years-after-sgt-peppers-how-jews-helped-fill-a-beatles-lonely-heart/ |title=50 years after 'SGT. Pepper's,' how Jews helped fill a Beatle's lonely heart |website=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref>{{sfn|Spitz|2005|pp=258β259}} His grandmother, Dinah, was the daughter of Joseph, a [[draper]], and Esther Hyman, who had emigrated from Russia to Britain circa 1871/72 with their eldest son, Jacob. The Hymans had six other children. Isaac Epstein married Dinah Hyman in [[Manchester]] in 1900.<ref> Free BMD GRO marriage registration: March quarter 1900, district of Prestwich: EPSTEIN, Isaac, married HYMAN, Dinah: ref 8d 479 </ref> In 1901, Isaac and Dinah were living at 80 Walton Road, [[Liverpool]], with Isaac's sister Rachael Epstein, above the furniture dealership that he founded.<ref>1901 census (England)</ref>{{Non-primary source needed|date=June 2023}} Dinah and Isaac's third child, Harry Epstein, would become Brian Epstein's father.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=255}} Eventually the family moved to a larger home in the [[Anfield (suburb)|Anfield]] area of Liverpool, at 27 Anfield Road. After Harry and his brother Leslie had joined the family firm, Isaac Epstein founded Epstein and Sons. He enlarged the furniture business by taking over adjacent shops at 62/72 Walton Road to sell a range of other goods, such as musical instruments and household appliances.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=255}} They called the expanding business NEMS (North End Music Stores), which offered lenient credit terms. [[Paul McCartney]]'s father once bought a piano from them.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=71}}{{sfn|Miles|1997|pp=23β24}}{{sfn|Brown|Gaines|2002|p=62}} Epstein's mother Malka (nicknamed "Queenie" by her family, as Malka means "queen" in Hebrew) was also involved in the Hyman furniture business, which also owned the Sheffield Veneering Company.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=255}} Harry and Queenie married in 1933.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2013|p=248}}
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