Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
NameMoritz/ Maurice/ Hirch b’ Cerf/ Hirsch Levy Cerf Hirch Levy (Blumenfeld) 
Birth1785, D, Isenburg
Death16 Aug 1867, D, Eberstadt
Memoelsewhere Darmstadt
Spouses
Marriageabt 1810, D, Beuel (near Bonn)
ChildrenMeijer b’ Moritz (1810-1894)
Emanuel b’ Moritz (1811-1885)
Sophia b’ Moritz (~1815-)
David b’ Moritz (~1819-)
Mina b’ Moritz (1821-1888)
Moritz/Moses b’ Moritz (1825-1895)
Simon b’ Moritz (1830-1911)
Birth28 Aug 1817, D, Köln
Marriageabt 1854
ChildrenEmil b’ Moritz (1855-)
Aron/ Alexander b’ Moritz (1861-1942)
Notes for Moritz/ Maurice/ Hirch b’ Cerf/ Hirsch Levy Cerf Hirch Levy (Blumenfeld)
son of Levy Wolf (?) & Rosa Cahn (?)
[NB: Hirsch or Moritz? — indecisive which was first name and which was first surname or Patronym]
originally known as ‘Maurice Levi Cerf’ — after his marriage to a “Blumenfeld [step-]daughter” he changed his name to Blumenfeld.
1811 start “Circus Blumenfeld” with 4 horses, 2 bears etc.
9 children
[NB: cf “official?” Name Assumption 1845 in Combahn, near Bonn: Hirch Levy, circus-rider; Jetta, nee Jonas, wife of Hirsch Levy; children: Emanuel, Meyer, Sophia, David, Mina, Moritz, Simon; grandchild: Amalia]
[NB: cf “Jewish identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933” by Marline Otte]
[NB: Hirsch or Moritz? — indecisive which was first name and which was first surname or Patronym]
originally known as ‘Maurice Levi Cerf’ — after his marriage to a “Blumenfeld [step-]daughter” he changed his name to Blumenfeld.
1811 start “Circus Blumenfeld” with 4 horses, 2 bears etc.
9 children
[NB: cf “official?” Name Assumption 1845 in Combahn, near Bonn: Hirch Levy, circus-rider; Jetta, nee Jonas, wife of Hirsch Levy; children: Emanuel, Meyer, Sophia, David, Mina, Moritz, Simon; grandchild: Amalia]
[NB: cf “Jewish identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933” by Marline Otte]