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The Common Room / Re: Andre Kaya also known as Louis Luscombe
« on: Tuesday 17 April 18 13:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Marianne Isaacs on Sunday 22 May 16 13:13 BST (UK)
I have long wondered about Andre . How would I find out who his  parents were and how they are related to Rose . Roses mother was Pearl Opas .can I find out about his life I wonder ?

Andre's mother Annie Luscombe was born with the surname LUEL, and her parents were Zelig LUEL and Rachel OPAS.  They were from Kalisz. 

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Europe / Re: Andre Kaya also known as Anton Ludwick Leszczynski
« on: Tuesday 17 April 18 13:26 BST (UK)  »
By the way, if you look into Julia Loel, be aware there are two of the same name.  Abraham's daughter (the opera singer) was born in Victoria in 1865.  She married Henry Samuel Franks in London in 1895. 

The other Julia Loel is the daughter of Harris Loel.  However, he had a common law marriage with Ellen Cluse and the older children were registered under Cluse (and one under Chase), whilst the younger ones are registered under both his surname and hers.  This other Julia Loel was born Julia Louisa Cluse in Victoria in 1873 and married in Perth WA in 1897. 

Lots of family trees combine them into one person.

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Europe / Re: Andre Kaya also known as Anton Ludwick Leszczynski
« on: Tuesday 17 April 18 13:18 BST (UK)  »
I've been chasing this chap as well.  I believe the reason he was in Australia with his family was because his mother (who went by the name "Annie Luscombe") was apparently a sister of Abraham, Harris and Morris Loel (originally Luel) - all from Kalisz in Poland, born in the 1830s/1840s. 

The brothers had arrived in Australia in about the mid to late 1850s and eventually settled in Melbourne.  I'm not sure if they all came together, but Abraham arrived aboard the "Startled Fawn" in 1856, according to his naturalisation papers.  Harris is certainly in Victoria by 1861.  Their parents were Zelig LUEL and Rachel OPAS from Kalisz.

Abraham had two daughters who were opera singers (Julia Loel, later Julia Franks, and Isobel Loel who went by the name Bel Loel) and in an article about Bel it mentions she is a cousin of singers Louis Luscombe and Bertha Luscombe.  Annie Luscombe is mentioned in the Will of her brother Harris Loel when he died in 1901.  I think Annie's husband was Jacob Luscombe who died in Melbourne in 1889 aged 63.

There is another sister mentioned in an In Memoriam notice for Harris Loel in about 1905, but I've not yet identified her.  She is merely referred to as "Mrs Levy".

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