Any Information on the family Jacob and Catherine Cohen, Wales, Swansea

[JustinL]

Leonard - do you have Jacob's will? Start a new post to request help with deciphering it. There are many keen eyes on RC.

The wills of Solomon and Mordecai Phillips are also both available on ancestry.co.uk

Here are summaries from SynagogueScribes:

Solomon https://synagoguescribes.com/blog/jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century-details/jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=431

Mordecai https://synagoguescribes.com/blog/jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century-details/jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=1539

Sam - it would fantastic if Jacob's and Catherine's gravestones had served and bore legible Hebrew inscriptions. We would then know the name of Jacob's father and Catherine's full Hebrew name.

You're also right in thinking that Douglas is decidedly un-Jewish. His Hebrew name may have been Daniel or Dov or something else entirely. I have not come across Douglas

Vogeltje is a Dutch diminutive of Vogel, which is bird in German. But I think we can safely rule out the geni record.

[LCohen]

Hi Justin and Sam,

Heres Jacob Cohen will: https://viewer.library.wales/445405#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F445405%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=-446%2C-190%2C3614%2C3790

I'll setup and separate post to decipher it as you suggest.

Catherine Cohen, Douglas Cohen, Rosetta Marks (née Cohen). All Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery I think. I have shots of the headstones I'll post separately.

Douglas Cohen
http://www.cemeteryscribes.com/getperson.php?personID=I10424&tree=Cemeteries

Harriet Cohen and her son Mendes Cohen Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139154484/harriet-cohen

You'll find all the Baltimore Cohens via this link.

Thanks

Leonard

[LCohen]

Headstone Catherine Cohen

[LCohen]

Rosetta Marks (née Cohen)

[LCohen]

Harriet Cohen

[LCohen]

You'll find Jacob Cohen and Catherine Cohen's brother-in-law Jacob Mosely who married Catherine sister Abigail Philips on the Swansea Synagogue founding stone dated 1818.

[LCohen]

Hi Justin and Sam,

Some additional information.

I'm related to the family of US president George Washington.

Esdaile Philip Cohen (1792-1856) was the brother of my 2nd great grandfather Reuben Zaleg Felipe (Philip) Cohen (1810-1881). Esdaile immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland possibly with his sister Harriet Cohen (1801 - 1889) shortly after Harriet’s wedding to David I Cohen (Baltimore Cohens banking etc.) on the 7 July 1830 in Swansea, Wales.

Esdaile’s 2nd great-grandson, and my 4th cousin, is John Yocum Randolph Crawford (August 4, 1915 – February 14, 1976) an American bridge and backgammon champion, he was a member of the United States bridge teams that won the first three Bermuda Bowls, or world teams championships, in 1950, 1951 and 1953.

John married Marie Blackburn Washington on the 25 November 1939 Marie is the 4th great-granddaughter of John Augustine Washington, brother of US President George Washington. John Yocum Randolph Crawford and Marie Blackburn Washington had three daughters (that I know of): Ames Wright Crawford, Dudley Washington Crawford and Fenton Randolph Crawford making them John Augustine Washington's 5th great-granddaughters and my 4th cousins once removed.

Thanks

Leonard

[LCohen]

John Yocum Randolph Crawford

[LCohen]

The family of Esdaile Philip Cohen (1792-1856) is part of the Malcolm H. Stern genealogy project, I'll write to them.