The KERRY family "may be" descendants of Sinai LOEB, the elder brother of Jehuda LOEW the Maharal of Prague *see also Daniel Loeb web site -- Last update: April 29, 2009

Rabbi Baruch Born: abt. 1660 Occupation: chief Rabbi of Timişoara or (Temešvár, now Romania)

• Rabbi Mordechai LEIPNIK Born: abt. 1680, lived in Uherský Brod Moravia, Czech. Occupation: chief Rabbi of Timişoara

  

  • Abraham (LEIPNIKER) LÖWY a.k.a. "Abraham Ha-Levi Brode, ben Mordechai" Born: abt. 1700, arriving 1716 in Úsov, Moravia, Czech. Died: Oct 29, 1774 in Úsov + Torriah (?)

    Note: see Jewishgen Úsov, Moravia (Ausse, Mahrisch), Czech Republic history article Abraham Leipniker 1753, Wool dealer, living in big house; abt 1760 and Senator John Forbes Kerry ancestors and the Lowy family living in Usov in the later 1700s & 1800s OR image of Abraham's script, pen-and-ink drawing Úsov 1771, from the University College in London, Library Services

    • Menke Leipniker LÖWY (a.k.a. Menka, Emanuel FLEISCHMANN) Born: unknown Died: Dec 29, 1790 + Gelda (?)
      • Schondl (Schendel/Schandl/Schendle/Scheindel) LÖWY + Selig LÖWY Born: abt. 1741 in Úsov. Died: Oct 3, 1846 in Úsov. Selig's Father: Jehuda Israel LÖBL Died: Nov 8, 1790 in Úsov

• Leopold LÖWY Died: Bef. 1870 + Katharina Katty STERN Born: abt. 1798/9 in Nový Hrozenkov, Moravia, Czech. Died: 3 Sep 1886 in Brno, Moravia
  • Albert LÖWY Born: 1817 in. Emigrated to London, U.K. between 1848-1870. Rabbi of Jewish community in Paddington. Married: 1871

    Note: jewishgen Usov history: see Albert Löwy from Usov went to England and became active in Jewish causes. As Secretary of the Anglo-Jewish Association in the latter half of the 1800s, he was among those arguing for Jewish nationalism, unlike many others in Czechoslovakia at that time who favored assimilation

  • Wilhelm LÖWY Born: Mar 6, 1826 Died: May 22, 1912 in Vienna + Emma Friedrike FRÄENKEL BORN: Nov 9, 1841 in Ratibor, Prussian Silesia. Married: 25 Feb 1871 in Breslau. Died: Dec 28, 1928. Moved to Czerningass 7, Vienna
    • Robert Leopold LÖWY Born: Jan 23, 1872 in Vienna, later moving to his uncle's in London
    • Rosalia LÖWY Born: July 18, 1876 in Vienna
    • Felix LÖWY Born: Nov 24, 1877 in Vienna. Emigrated to London, moving to Frognallane
    • Gertrud LÖWY Born: Jun 14, 1882

  • Moritz LÖWY, moved to Budapest, Hungary

  • Alois LÖWY Born: Feb 28, 1831 in Úsov, Moravia, moved to Baden, Austria + Ernestine SPITZER Born: Mar 12, 1845 in Vienna. Married: Aug 18, 1867 in Vienna. Father: Carl Spitzer Mother: Regine SCHIEC *Vienna cem. has Ernestine Löwy (1844/45 - 06/27/1879) age 35

  • Siegfried LÖWE Born: Sep 12, 1834 in Úsov, Moravia. Died: Mar 31, 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Occupation: commercial agent, exporting merchant + Josephine LÖW Born: Oct 31, 1845 in Boskovice (Boskowitz), Moravia. Married: Mar 20, 1870 in Brno, Moravia. Died: Nov 17, 1897 in Vienna, Austria. *8th child of Benjamin Löw Born: abt. 1797 Married Jul 14, 1840 in Boskovice, Moravia. Died: Jul 26, 1876 in Brno, son of ? Benjamin Löw Born: abt. 1771 Died: Apr 24, 1839 in Boskovice, Moravia & Breidl (?) (abt 1800 - Oct 1, 1834). *4th child of Benjamin's 2nd wife, her mother Betty SPITZER Born: Sep 1817 in Straznice, Moravia. Died: Jan 19, 1898 in Brno.*see website of Josefine's siblings & descendants

    Note: Siegfried, Josefine, son Felix Löwe buried together in Vienna. Their 1st child (Lina) was born in Vienna where Siegfried is listed as commercial agent. Following year he is listed as exporting merchant, which led him to Budapest, Hungary, where 4 further children were born

    • Lina (Linda) LÖWE Born: Apr 4, 1870 in Vienna + Wilhelm SCHLOSS Married: Mar 16, 1902
      • Lilli Josephine SCHLOSS Born: Mar 9, 1903 + Erwin GOLDSCHMIED Married: May 27, 1923 in Vienna

      • Leopold SCHLOSS Born: May 6, 1905 + Kitty GRUENWALD Married: Sep 16, 1927

    • Jenni LÖWE Born: Apr 21, 1872 in Budapest. Deported to Theresienstadt. Died: in Holocaust, Treblinka
    • Felix LÖWE Born Oct 6, 1873 in Budapest. Died: Mar 19, 1935 in Vienna
    • Otto LÖWE Born Jan 7, 1875 in Budapest. Died: in Holocaust, Theresienstadt *see March 2004 notes on Otto and Jenni - Inquiry details Kerry relatives' fate holocaust deportations

    • Ida LÖWE Born: Feb 22, 1877 in Budapest. Died: Jan 19, 1960 in U.S. *see article re; ancestors & relatives Ida was a Jewish musician + Friedrich "Fritz" KOHN Born: May 10, 1873 in Horní Benešov, Moravia. Married: Sep 1, 1900 in Vienna, Austria. Died: Nov 21, 1921 in Boston, MA. Father: Benedikt Kohn Born: abt. 1824 in Moravia. Died: 1876. Master brewer, who studied in Vienna. Mother: Mathilde FRÄNKEL. Grandparents: Jacob Fränkel of Biała Prudnicka (Zülz, Upper Silesia) now Poland & Johanna FISCHER of Oberglogau, Prussia *see external genealogy site

      Note: Friedrich, like his brother Otto Kohn, converted to Catholicism and changed his name to Frederick Kerry. He worked as an accountant at his uncle's shoe factory. In 1905, the family immigrated to U.S. via Ellis Island, lived in Chicago, before settling in Boston. Fred and Ida had two more children, Mildred and Richard. The family lived in Brookline, where Fred became prominent in the shoe business, regularly attending Sunday church services. *He did not tell anyone about their Jewish roots. In 1921, Fred Kerry, age 48, entered a Boston hotel and shot himself in the head. Some say the suicide was due to financial stress or depression. *see From Bennisch to Boston - Why the tiny Czech village of Horní Benešov was rooting for John Kerry to win the White House

      Note: any relation to: Auguste Fränkel on Pinkus page? Mathilde is from (or lived on) the ring 21 in the Upper Silesian Beethoven's small town Oberglogau. Who might call a baroque house his Own, belonged, actually, to the "better" in the small town in the Hotzenplotz in Oberglogau in the ring. The Fränkels were respectable merchants, late industrialist and, in the end, also cultural patrons. Samuel Fränkel founded in the capital town Neustadt, directly in the Prudnik, the textiles "Fränkel-Werke", even today as state "Frotex-"Works not only the employer of the town are. Samuel Fränkel was a big cultural patron of the town, makes friends with GerSchlesischer cultural mirror 39, 2004 19 hard captains. He organized author's readings and chamber concerts, last with world-famous pianists like Raul Koczalski, Wilhelm baking house, Walter Gieseking in the Prudnik. Selma Fränkel (1855 Wroclaw 1925 Oberglogau) married into the Oberglogauer family. The concert pianist who had studied in Wroclaw and Vienna and in 1885 to Oberglogau came, been active in the Hotzenplotz as a piano pedagogue and maintained ammerkonzerte and gave charity concerts. Their most significant pupil was the composer Prof. Gerhard Strecke. As this his entrance examination in the Kgl. Academic institute of church history in Berlin had passed, the examining piano professor thought: ? You must have had very good piano lessons ? (cf Walter Kwasnik: Oberglogau as a music town, in: Music of the east, in 1969). The Filius of Selma Fränkel was a medicine professor and co-founder of the first Oberglogauer academy connection "Brasikaria" which owned big cultural influence in the town

      • Erich KERRY
      • Mildred KERRY Born: 1910

• Richard KERRY Born: July 28, 1915 Died: July 29, 2000. Occupation: worked in the U.S. State Department and later Foreign Service + Rosemary FORBES Married: Jan 24, 1941 Died: Nov 14, 2002. *Rosemary was the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts - includes genealogy *see Rosemary, Richard and family picture
  • Margery KERRY Born: 1941

  • Senator John Forbes KERRY Born: Dec 11, 1943 in Denver, Colorado + Theresa HEINZ, widow of Senator Heinz, heir to the H. J. Heinz Company. Occupation: Massachusetts Senator. *2004 Democratic nominee for President

    Note: John's mother Rosemary (nee Forbes) "may be linked " to Duke Borivoj I (852/3- ca 888/89) and his wife Saint Ludmila (860-921), grandmother of St. "Good King" Wenceslaus, founders of Premyslide dynasty of the Kings of Bohemia. Her ancestors were related to the British Royal family and the Czech Premyslides. Senator Kerry thus has common ancestry with his "9th cousin, 2x removed" President George W. Bush. *see Kerry's 14 generations tree

    John's children:

    • Alexandra KERRY
    • Vanessa KERRY

    Theresa's children:

    • John HEINZ
    • Andre HEINZ
    • Christopher HEINZ

  • Diana KERRY
  • Cameron F. KERRY *married a Jewish woman and converted to Judaism in 1983

• Charlotte LÖWE Born: Sep 1822 in Úsov (Mahrisch Aussee), Moravia + Markus "Moritz" WASSERTRILLING changed to WALLNER May 10, 1897 Born: Sep 1820 in Boskovice (Boskowitz), Moravia. Residence: Brno, Moravia

  Note: any relation to Babette (nee Koritschoner) Löw (1822 - 12/14/1899 Vienna) NFP and her daughter Bertha Löw + Adolf (Naphtali) Wassing (Wassertrilling) (1843 Boskovice -), son of Samuel Wassertrilling (1814 Boskovice -), son of Jakob Wassertrilling of Boskovice, paternal grandson of Samuel Kolin HaLevi (1720/24 Kolin, Bohemia -1806 Boskovice), son of Natan Neta  Spira (Kolin), son of Krakow Rabbi Nathan Spira (1583-1633) & Rabbi Juda Loew the Maharal of Prague on Sharon Okouneff genealogy site?

• David WASSERTRILLING (WALLNER) Born: May 3, 1858 in Boskovice. Occupation: merchant in Vienna. Died: Feb 13, 1942 in Vienna age 83 + Rosa TAUBER Born: Aug 19, 1870 in Vienna. Married: Dec 13, 1891 in Vienna. Deported Apr 27, 1942 Wien Wlodawa Holocaust. Buried in Vienna. Father: Alfred Tauber Mother: Johanna EHRENSTEIN Born: 1841/42 Died: Died: Dec 2, 1888 in Vienna age 46

  Note: any relation to Tauber Aaron, Charlotte, Minna on this site OR Johanna Tauber residence 1954 Vienna + Fritz Philipp Spiegl, father of Rudolf Spiegl (1889 Zurndorf, AU - 1967 Vienna) m. Josefine Geiringer (1890 Vienna - 1953 Uruguay