# Montefiore census 1849, Jaffa — "אלעזר ארואץ" (record 3717, person 8220) — not in the report

- Source: Montefiore Endowment census search, https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/census-search/ — year 1849, id 3717, scanLine "?", city Jaffa (יפו), personId 8220; scan https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/scans/11780018.pdf (saved here: montefiore_scan_11780018_1849_jaffa.pdf, 1 page). Row crop saved: montefiore_1849_jaffa_3717_elazar_aruatz_row_zoom.png.
- Hebrew index form (census_get_record language=H): "אליעזר ארואץ", status ", Male". **English index form (language=E): "Eliezer Ashkenazi"** — i.e. the English transliteration column of the site is wrong for this person; any English-only search for Aruets/Arwas/Arouas misses him (which is presumably why the report's Montefiore tables, built on English queries, do not contain him: grep 3717 / 11780018 in avraham-zadok = no hit).
- What the scan shows (page heading "ואלה שמות בני ישראל תושבי עה״ק יפו תוב״ב ... בן פורת יוסף", i.e. the Jaffa list of 5609 = 1848/49): in the men's column, between "אסכנדר אשכנזי הי״ו" (wife Luna, sons Abraham & Shim'on) and "ברוך אלטיר הי״ו" (wife Hana): **"אלעזר ארואץ הי״ו"** (my reading of the script; the site's index says אליעזר). The wife / sons / daughters columns on his line carry only the dotted filler, i.e. no family is listed for him on this page.
- Relation to the report: the report documents the Aruets families of Jaffa from the 1855 census (Shlomo Aruets 32, wife Simha, sons Yosef 12, Moshe 6, Eliahu 3 — id 3914; and Elazar Aruets 24, wife Mesoda, sons Yosef 6, Abraham 1 — id 4194, both born Gibraltar, arrived 1833) and the 1866 Jerusalem record (id 269). The 1849 row would be the **earliest Palestine census mention of Elazar** (he would be ~18, unmarried, consistent with the 1855 age 24 and sons aged 6 and 1 in 1855 only if the elder son was born 1849 — the page lists no wife, so this is a tension to note, not to resolve). Also consistent with Elazar's Gaon-index candidate "Eliezer Aruats d. 10.8.1865" in gaon-findings.md.
- Grade: כמעט ודאי that this 1849 Jaffa "ארואץ" is the Gibraltar-born Elazar/Eliezer of the 1855 census (rare surname, same town, same Hebrew spelling); the age is not given, so the identification remains ככל הנראה regarding the "unmarried in 1849" inference.
- Suggested edit for the report's source table (not made here): add item 3717 (1849, Jaffa, scan 11780018) and a warning that the Montefiore English index can mis-transliterate Hebrew names; re-run the Hebrew-form search (ארוא*, ארו*) for 1839/1840/1849/1866/1875.