Family: Michael, Solomon / Abrahams, Esther (f54)

m. Abt 1852


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  • Father | Male
    Michael, Solomon

    Born  24 Dec 1830  Wrzesnia Poland (Wreschen, Posen, Prussia) Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  9 Jan 1894  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  12 Jan 1894  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  Abt 1852  New York Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Michael, Pincus | F55 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Abrahams, Rebecca | F55 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Abrahams, Esther

    Born  29 Jun 1834  Wrzesnia Poland (Wreschen, Posen, Prussia) Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  9 Dec 1898  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  11 Dec 1898  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Abrahams, Samuel | F56 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Kempe, Sarah | F56 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Male
    Michael, John

    Born  Abt 1853  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Between 1860 and 1870   
    Buried     

    Child 2 | Male
    Michael, Phillip

    Born  Nov 1853  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  23 Jul 1912  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  31 Jul 1912  Staten Island, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Rebecca | F2904 
    Married  Abt 1882   

    Child 3 | Female
    Michael, Sarah

    Born  8 Mar 1855   
    Died  15 Apr 1923  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  18 Apr 1923  Elmont, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Bebarfald, Abraham | F1011 
    Married  11 Jul 1875  Manhattan, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 4 | Female
    Michael, Rachel

    Born  Abt 1857  New York Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  19 May 1907  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  21 May 1907  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Levy, Abraham | F1004 
    Married  22 Mar 1885  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 5 | Female
    Michael, Rosalie

    Born  Abt 1857   
    Died  Jul 1858   
    Buried  19 Jul 1858  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 6 | Female
    Michael, Rebecca

    Born  Abt 1858  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  10 Jul 1930  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  13 Jul 1930  Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Cohn, Guttmann | F60 
    Married  3 Aug 1879  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 7 | Female
    Michael, Leah

    Born  10 Nov 1858  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  21 Mar 1925  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Bebarfald, Joseph | F1003 
    Married  25 Oct 1885  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 8 | Male
    Michael, Charles

    Born  16 Nov 1861  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  16 Nov 1928  Bronx, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  18 Nov 1928  Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Meyer, Celia | F1005 
    Married  31 Jan 1897  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Michael, BernardChild 9 | Male
    Michael, Bernard

    Born  22 Feb 1866  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  17 Oct 1906  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Hamerschlag, Anna Kate | F28 
    Married  22 Feb 1891  New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 10 | Female
    Michael, Betsey

    Born  Abt 1869   
    Died  Jul 1878   
    Buried  9 Jul 1878  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 11 | Female
    Michael, Hannah

    Born  Abt Jan 1869   
    Died  Oct 1869   
    Buried  27 Oct 1869  Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location

  • Photos
    259 Water Street
    259 Water Street
    a modern picture of the building at 257-259 Water street (corner of Peck Slip). Solomon Michael's tailor shop was at this location between 1855 and 1869. This building was erected in 1873.
    Numbers (from right) 11-5 Peck Slip; 9 Peck Slip second house from right
    Numbers (from right) 11-5 Peck Slip; 9 Peck Slip second house from right
    (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
    Numbers (from right) 15-1 Peck Slip
    Numbers (from right) 15-1 Peck Slip
    (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
    Peck Slip 1850
    Peck Slip 1850
    from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org; many more images available--search for Peck Slip
    Peck Slip, 1881
    Peck Slip, 1881
    Watercolor on paper, 20 x 14 in.
    Museum of the City of New York, 71.62.2
    Bequest of Riesa Friedman
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Modern Scene in Wrzesnia
    Old Panorama of Wreschen
    Old Panorama of Wreschen
    old photo of Wreschen
    old photo of Wreschen
    Synagogue in Wreschen
    Synagogue in Wreschen
    Synagogue in Wreschen
    Synagogue in Wreschen
    Drawing of Peck Slip
    Drawing of Peck Slip

    Documents
    Tree written by Edith Buyer in Ed and Roy Buyer's baby book, 1922
    Tree written by Edith Buyer in Ed and Roy Buyer's baby book, 1922
    Michael and Hamerschlag Handwritten Family Information
    Michael and Hamerschlag Handwritten Family Information
    possibly by Annie Hamerschlag Michael
    1852-4 map of Peck Slip
    1852-4 map of Peck Slip
    (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
    1857-62 map showing location of 9 Peck Slip
    1857-62 map showing location of 9 Peck Slip
    (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
    1857-62 Peck Slip map
    1857-62 Peck Slip map
    (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
    1882 map of Posen province in Prussia
    1882 map of Posen province in Prussia
    now Poland
    Location of Wrzesnia within Posen province
    Location of Wrzesnia within Posen province

    Histories
    Hamerschlag and Michael Families
    Hamerschlag and Michael Families
    Wreschen
    Wreschen

    News
    peck slip sale nytimes dec 2 1900.jpg
    peck slip sale nytimes dec 2 1900.jpg
    NY Times Dec 2 1900

    Albums
    Peck Slip, Manhattan
    Peck Slip, Manhattan (12)
    Bernard Michael was born at 9 Peck Slip, where his father Solomon had a tailoring shop. Peck Slip has a long maritime history, serving as an East River slip used by boats to dock until 1810. In fact, Peck Slip once offered George Washington and his troops protection as they fled from the Battle of Brooklyn. Peck Slip was the site of the ferry to Brooklyn before the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883. More recently, it was used as a fish market parking lot until the Fulton Fish Market relocated to the Bronx in 2005. In 2006, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a design for a park at Peck Slip; construction is due to begin in 2014. 9 Peck Slip was on the east side of the street between Pearl and Water Streets.
    Jewish Communities of Prussia: Wreschen/Wrzesnia
    Jewish Communities of Prussia: Wreschen/Wrzesnia (10)
    When our ancestors lived there, Wreschen was a town in the Posen province of Prussia. Today the town is known as Wrzesnia, Poland. According to Wikipedia, Wrze?nia's had a large Jewish community which is mentioned as one of the congregations which suffered severely during the persecutions of the years 1648–1651. All the early documents were destroyed in the conflagration of 1873, in which the synagogue, an old wooden building, also was burned. From International Jewish Cemetery Project (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies),
    Jewish settlement in Wrzesnia began in the 16th century because in 1579 75 Jews paid tax. Czarniecki soldiers murdered about 100 Jewish families in 1656. A fire in 1873 burned the synagogue. Jewish population: 1905-490 and 1921-151, 2.3%. On September 10, 1939 Germans occupied the city. They destroyed the synagogue in 1940. A French POW camp was there during WWII. The first Jewish cemetery in Wrzesnia was in the 16th century. Another was established in 1868. The only trace is two gravestone fragments stored in the Museum of Children Wrzesnia.
    An old Jewish cemetery was located in the center of the city bordered by the Fabryczna, Staszica and Szkolna Streets. It occupied an area of 94.5 acres. At the end of 1924, an agreement was reached between officials and the Jewish community to exchange the old cemetery for a parcel of land located on Strzalkowska highway at E end of town, the present location of the Municipal Cleaning Authority. The Nazis leveled it using the tombstones for hardening the surfaces of roads and streets. A small fraction of archival books may be found in the State Archives in Poznan.