1. JUDA His child:
2. LEVIJ JUDA
Levij is Dutch for Leib, the Yiddish
for 'Lion' - the Hebrew for which is Aryeh.
2. LEVIJ JUDA (1761,
probably in Assenheim, Germany - ?) m. JUDIC SALOMON AKKERMAN. Their surviving children, all born
in Amsterdam, were:
SOLOMON LEVIE (1791 -
?) In January 1812, then aged 20, he was not living in the
NL; he was probably in London
3. JOSEPH LEVIE (1793 - Bef. 1842)
4. ISADORE (ISAAC)
LEVIE (1797 - 11 October 1870, London)
NAATJE LEVIE (1799 - ?) m. in Amsterdam (1) 19 June 1823, EMANUEL FICTOR
POLAK (1786, Amsterdam - bef. 1828) Porter.
Naatje could not write; her father, Levie, age 62, was a ‘hotel keeper’.
[Marriage Contract] (2) 20 September 1829,
ARON MEIJER FRANK (1786, Amsterdam - ?) Errand-boy. Levie, now 67, was a ‘hawker’. [Marriage Contract]
RACHEL LEVIE (1802 - ?)
on 30 April 1823, in Amsterdam, m. SALOMON SALOMON MOF (1801, Amsterdam - ?) Military man. Rachel could write; her father Levie was a
‘hawker’. [Marriage Contract]
JUDA LEVIE (1803 - ?)
5.
SAARTJE LEVIE (1806 - ?) m., on 22 May 1833 in Amsterdam, MACHIEL
JACOP OPPENHEIJM Hawker, born
at Oirschot NL in 1808.
Neither Saartje nor her father could write. [Marriage Contract].
3. JOSEPH LEVIE
(1793, Amsterdam - bef. 1842) He was
18 in 1812 and was living abroad, probably in London where his children were
born. In 1809, when he was 16, Joseph
was learning diamond polishing (16-jarige
leerd diam. slijper). Joseph married
SARAH LEVY (? - .bef. 1842). Their
children are:
6.
LEVY (May 1813, London - ?) m. in Amsterdam on June 15, 1842
ANNAATJE COHENNO (1816 - ?) Seamstress. Neither
Levy nor Annaatje could write. [Marriage Contract] Levy was an ‘assistant.’
7. JUDA (November
1819, London - 26 October 1888, 40 Middlesex St., London)
SARAH (Abt.
1822 - ?); m. RAPHAEL JACOBS, October 5, 1842, Great Synagogue Duke's Place.
8. ISADORE ‘ISAAC’ JOSEPH
(1828, London - 16 June 1887, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia)
4. ISADORE (ISAAC) LEVIE (1797, Amsterdam - 11
October 1870, Bethnall House, Bethnal Green [death cert.])(Isaac Levie Assenheimer
was his recorded civil name) m. HANNAH BELLEM (1804, Plymouth - 2
January 1891, 15 Casson St., Mile End, London [death cert.] Isaac was variously
a hawker, general dealer, traveller. Their children are:
9. HYMAN (1828,
Plymouth - ?)
LEON
(1831, Plymouth - ?)
SHIMA (3
August 1832, Plymouth – 1832) died of smallpox epidemic, Plymouth
10. RACHEL (29 June
1833, Plymouth - ?)
11. CHARLOTTE (19
November 1835, Plymouth - ?)
12. SARAH (2 February 1838, 18 Bath Street,
Plymouth, Devon - 23 January 1900, 319 Old Ford Rd., Bow, London, E. 3.)
13. ESTHER (14 June 1840, Bath Street, Plymouth - ?)
14. AARON HENRY (2
July 1844, 10 Shephard St..,Christ Church, Spitalfields - ?)
In 1838,
Isaac & Hannah lived at 20 Bath St. Plymouth. The Bath St. property was later
sold to the Great West. Ry. for 7s 6d.
In 1851, they lived at 21 Hutchinson Avenue in London. In 1861, they lived at 25 Duke Street.
7. JUDA (November
1819, London - 26 October 1888, 40 Middlesex St., London) m. SARAH ISAAC VAN
DER KAR ['MAREY' ISAACS] (1818, Amsterdam - 13 December 1883, 40 Middlesex St.,
London) on 8 March 1843 in Amsterdam.
8. ISADORE 'ISAAC' JOSEPH ancestor of the main Australian branch of the Assenheim
family (1828, London [proven by his son Joseph’s NSW and his daughter Sarah’s
NSW birth certs.] - 16 June 1887, Redfern, NSW). He married SUSANNAH 'REBECCA'
PIPER (12 May 1834, Sydney – 29 November 1897, Redfern, NSW) on 10 April 1852
in Scots Church, Sydney; they married again on 29 January 1855 in the New
Synagogue Chambers, London.
Isadore and Susannah changed their names to 'Isaac' and
'Rebecca' when they married in a Scottish Protestant Church in Sydney in
1852. Isaac has an elaborate monument,
he was a member of a masonic lodge, Rebecca has nothing. Isaac and Rebecca went back to England in
1853; they returned to Australia in 1855.
9. HYMAN (1828,
Plymouth- ?) m. (1) JANE MACKENZIE; (2) JESSIE MCKENNA; (3) JANE DUFF.
10. RACHEL (29
June 1833, Plymouth - ?) m. Joseph Phillips on 26 December 1858 in the New
Synagogue Chambers.
11. CHARLOTTE
(19 November 1835, Plymouth - ?) around 1864 she lived with DANIEL
RION.
On her children's birth certificates,
Charlotte made her mark as she could not write.
12. SARAH (2 February
1838, 18 Bath Street, Plymouth, Devon - January 23, 1900, 319 Old Ford Rd.,
Bow, London, E. 3.) m. NATHANIEL BENJAMIN (1835 - 2 August 1902) (a dealer) on
22 November 1857 in Great Synagogue, Dukes Place, London E1.
13. ESTHER (14
June 1840, Bath Street, Plymouth - ?) m. LOUIS LEVY (1838, Germany - ?)
on December 10, 1861 in the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London. Prior to her
1861 marriage Esther lived at 25 Duke St., Old Artillery Ground. Louis, Cigar
Maker, lived at 11 Duke St., Old Artillery
Ground.
14. AARON HENRY
(2 July 1844, 10 Shephard St.,Christ Church, Spitalfields - ?) m. ELIZABETH
ALEXANDER (1847, Spitalfields - ?) abt. 1865 in London [LDS records File
No. 1985397]. Their children are:
JULIA (4 April 1864, 21 Goulston St., Whitechapel - bef. 1868)
ISAAC (20 June 1866, 22 Goulston St.,
Whitechapel - bef. 1881)
JULIA (29 November 1867, London. - ?) LDS File no. 2034381 m. Meyer De Friend in 1886 lived in Ilford
HANNAH (9 October 1869, London – 1938/1939)
LDS File No. 2034381 m. Conrad Theobald in 1886.
RACHEL (1873 - ?) m. Mr.
Bourne [lived in Harrow]
15. GOULDER (15
October 1875, 49 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Whitechapel – 22 December 1958)
ISAAC (11 September 1881, 25 Ernest
Street, Mile End Old Town - ?)
AARON HENRY was a 'fancy shoe maker' in 1881. His family is listed as Assenheins in the 1881 Census.
But Aaron, his wife Elizabeth, and Goulder are Assenheim on Goulder's
birth certificate. Occupation: Slipper Maker. Also listed in the 1881 Census, living in the same house as Aaron and
his family (Elizabeth, and daughters Julia (13), Hannah (11), Rachel (8) and
Goulder (5)), at 25 Ernest Street, Mile End Old Town is James Assenheins age
31, a 'boot fitter', his wife Selina age 30, and their children James, 10, and
Selina, 6. Possibly, James was a cousin of Aaron whose wife was not Jewish and
whose children were therefore, contrary to Jewish custom, named after their
living parents. In 1891, Aaron was living at 28 Ernest Street, Mile End. In
1901, Aaron aged 56, was in Spitalfields, London Mile End Old Town, as ‘
Shoemaker.’
15. GOULDER (15
October 1875, 49 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Whitechapel - 22 December 1958) m. GEORGE
PROCTOR
in 1894
* All
Assenheim information supplied by Andrew
Kopkin.
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