Copenhagen birth 1745: Jacob Isaacher COHEN

[colee]

Hi Justin

Your insight on equivalent names is fascinating.

So can Cohen be interchangeable with Levi?

Therefore is it possible that this record on Synagogue Scribes is a daughter of Jacob's? It has Jesse/Shprintsa - daughter of privileged member (which we know Jacob was) Levi Cohen the Warden deceased (which would also fit as Jacob died in 1815).

Family Name   COHEN
Forenames   Jesse
Hebrew Name   Shprintsa (Dau. of a Privd Member)
Event   Marriage
Date   1816 [26 Jun]
Father’s Hebrew Name   Levi Cohen the Warden deceased   
Spouse   DAVIDSON Meyer

I'm also interested in the Jonas family, as one of the brothers Godfrey married Frances Jonas. Her record on Synagogue Scribes shows her father is Jesse - what does this normally pair with?

Reference   GSM 114/19
Family Name   JONAS
Forenames   Frances
Hebrew Name   Brynla
Event   Marriage
Date   1808 [27 Apr]
Father’s Hebrew Name   Jesse Sapir [sofer / scribe]
Spouse   COHEN Godfrey Alexander

Could this be her father?
Reference   GSM 014/7
Family Name   JONES
Forenames   Henry
Hebrew Name   Naphtali Hirtz
Event   Marriage
Date   1793 [23 Oct]
Father’s Hebrew Name   Yehuda from Cassel
Spouse   MYERS Fanny

Jacob had a step son Solomon Cassel from his 2nd wife Springze who was married before Jacob to Dr Leib Cassel.

Maybe I'm not making much sense, but there might be connections in the names which lead me to where they come from, and I could potentially look in the Jewish records from there.

[JustinL]

Hello again,

Levites (levi'im) and Cohens (kohanim) are separate but related groups. All Cohens are Levites, i.e. descended from the Biblical Levi (rhymes with heavy incidentally), one of the 12 sons of the patriarch Jacob. But not all Levites and Cohens.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2313791/jewish/Kohanim-and-Leviim.htm

Jesse Cohen was the daughter of Levi Barent Cohen, a Dutch Jew. There is an article about him on Wikipedia.

Henry Jones (m. 1793) was not the father of Frances Jonas. The Hebrew names of the two men are different. Her father was Yishai (badly transliterated as Jesse).

Have to board my flight now.