Family Background
Flaganan was born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. His parents, Wolf Weintrop (1856-1932) and Yetta (Kitty) Weintrop (1856-1935) were Polish Jews who were married in the city of Radom, Poland, and fled to Łódź on their wedding day to avoid a pogrom. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "New World" from Eastern Europe - they paid for a ticket to New York and a dishonest ticket agent gave them a ticket to London. In London, Wolf learned to be a shoe and bootmaker, and earned extra money singing as a part-time cantor (Hazzan) and by singing in pubs on Saturday nights. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop had ten children all born in London. At the time of the 1881 UK Census, Wolf "Wienkopf" and family lived in Brick Lane and by the 1891 UK Census, the "Wientrob" family had moved on to 12 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
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