Hannah DA COSTA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1027a
• Reference Number: BR-J

Notes:

Note from Manfred Lindner's notes:-

My mother, who died in 1926 when I was six years of age. Thus, I have very few personal recollections of her, although her image is vivid. An expert seamstress and dressmaker, according to statements made by her sister, Rachel, to me.
For years she made all the dresses and suits that her three children wore. Apparently she could look in a department -store window at a gown or suit, then purchase material and come home to make a very close reproduction of the object on display.

Hannah married Harry MARKS before 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Harry was born on 18 Jul 1878 in Illinois, USA; died on 14 Apr 1911 in Illinois, USA; was buried on 17 Apr 1911 in Free Sons Cem., Forest Park, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Manfred LINDNER, Sr on 18 Dec 1912 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Manfred (son of Sigmund LINDNER and Augusta [LINDNER]) was born on 15 Sep 1879 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; died on 13 Jan 1932 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried on 15 Jan 1932 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Manfred LINDNER, Jr

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1028a
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; : 6y; Address: 1 Old Castle Street

Notes:

Notes from Manfred Lindner's data:-

His family emigrated from London after February, 1853, eventually settling in Albany NY of that year, when he was seven. Not much is known about those pre-Civil War years. His father, Aaron (AKA Henry, and Harry) was listed in the 1860 census
for Albany as a "master cigarmaker", his traditional trade in London. Sons Moses & Jacob both learned the trade from their father, Aaron. On Sept. 2, 1864 during the Civil War, Jacob enlisted in Co. A of the 91st Infantry Regiment from Albany.
He saw action in the Battle of Five Forks, and was wounded with a musket ball in his left thigh on March 31, 1865 at a site known as Gravelly Run (also as the Battle of White Oak Road). After being hospitalized for some weeks, he was honorably
discharged from the Army on June 21,1865. Fairly complete details of enlistment records, muster roll and pension papers are maintained in my file. Jacob returned to Albany and resumed the cigarmaking trade. The City of Albany business
directories listed him in the years 1868 and 1869, but nothing in later years. However, the Chicago City directory for the period 1869,70 shows that Jacob De Costa had gone into the grocery business with one James Day in Chicago. Whether this
geographical shift was motivated by economics or by family disagreements is not known. But of considerable significance to his descendants is the fact that he was a lodger at that time in the home of one Lewis and Jane Simons, this being
recorded in the Federal Census for Chicago for the year 1870. On Dec. 31, 1870, Jacob, at 24, was married by a Justice of the Peace to the oldest of the Simons children, Rayna (then 20 years of age). Perhaps by that time (or surely soon
thereafter) he became a partner of Lewis Simons in the latter's furniture store at 224 Blue Island Avenue, in Chicago. The De Costas were to raise their family of eight children, and to remain in the furniture business at this address for the
rest of their natural lives. In fact, the 1902 Chicago business directory still listed the Blue Island address as the residence of three of the De Costa offspring (Hannah, Harry, and Ray). The location was thus identified with the Simons-De
Costa union for a period of at least 32 years. The 1890 & 1891 business directories also listed a De Costa's Hall at the Blue Island address. This was well known among family members to the present time as a hall which was rented out for
parties, weddings, lodge meetings and other social occasions as a means of providing additional income to help support the large family. Jacob De Costa did not live to see any of his children grow to maturity. On July 25, 1886 he succumbed to
an embolism following an operation for rectal cancer, leaving his wife, Rayna, to raise their eight children. He was forty years of age at his death.

! Birth Certif. 181, b. 26 Feb, 1846. Reg'd. on 16 Mar, 1846. Sup. Reg. Distr. Whitechapel, Spitalfields, County Middlesex. Somerset House Index is Whitechapel, Vol. II, Pg 6xx(unclear). Spelled "Da Costa".

! 1851 census, England. On LDS microfilm roll 174,775, Pg 223, for Whitechapel, White's Row, St. Mary, at No.1 Old Castle Court. Aaron De Costa, head. Jacob a son, age 6.

! 1860 census, U.S.A. Albany, NY, 2nd ward, Pg 268. Dwelling visitation no. 125. Family visitation no. 312, home of Henry De Costar. Jacob, a son, age 14.

! 1870 census, U.S.A. Chicago, IL, 9th ward. Pg 2132. Dw. Vis. no. 2758, Fam. Vis. No. 3627. Home of Lewis Simons. Jacob De Kosta, lodger, age 23

! 1880 census, U.S.A. Chicago, IL, Enum Distr. 83, Pg 53, Dw. No. 286, Fam. No. 514. Jacob De Costa & Family.

! Decl. for Orig. Invalid Pension, No. 579906, Union Army Civil War Veteran, filed 12 July,1886 by Jacob De Costa.

! Death Cert. No. 86212, Chicago City Bd. of Health, dated 26 July,1886.

! Obituary, Chicago Tribune, Mon. July 26, 1886, Pg 8.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Son
Scholar

Jacob married Maria Rayna SIMONS. Maria (daughter of Lewis SIMONS and Jane JACOBS) was born on 20 May 1850 in Gloucester, England; died on 15 Dec 1898 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1028b
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; : 10m; Address: Old Court
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Bristol, Somerset, England; : 11y; Address: Gloucester Lane

Notes:

Notes from Manfred Lindner's data:-

Remembered by her descendants & family members as "Rayna Simons DeCosta", there have been at least a dozen namesakes. Yet there is no English birth record of a Rayna Simons, daughter of Lewis and Jane.
Ultimately I learned the reason.

In searching for the Lewis/Jane Simons family in the 1861 census for Bristol, England, the children were listed, in order of age, as Maria, Hannah, Henry, Moses & David. Maria's age was listed as11 years and her birthplace as Gloucester, England.

No family member alive in 1990- and to whom I spoke of this- was aware of the name Maria. All thought that the name of the oldest child was Rayna, born in 1850 in Bristol. Ultimately I obtained the birth certificate for Maria Simons; it confirmed in every detail the information in the 1861 census, and the birthdate (May 20, 1850) is that of gm Rayna. By 1870 the Simons Family was already listed in the Chicago, U. S. census, and in that record the oldest child was listed as Rayna Simons, age 20.

Sometime within that 9-year interval Maria became Rayna. We now know that her paternal grandmother's name was Reyna Uzieli, who married a Henry Simons in August of 1810. Henry is known to be the name of the father of Lewis Simons, Rayna's father (see family 66 and notes on individual 237).

[Note by David Simpson 9/Aug/2008:- Found the family in 1851 census and she is listed as Rayner in that census]

Why the name Maria? Apparently she was named after her maternal aunt, Maria Jacobs (who was married to one Joseph Alexander just a few months following the marriage of Jane and Lewis), but changed the name to Rayna some time between 1861 and 1870. Thus, she swapped the name of a maternal aunt for that of her paternal grandmother.

! Birth Certif. No. 145, Reg. Distr. Gloucester, St. Nicholas, Gloucester County, b. on 20 May, 1850, reg'd. on 25 June, 1850. Somerset House Index for births for 2nd qtr, 1850: "Simons, Maria, Gloster", Vol XI, Pg 368, found on LDS microfilm
roll no. 528262.

! 1861 census for Bristol, Eng. on LDS microfilm no. 542859, pg 80 (pg 25 of enum dist). Sup. Reg. Dist. Clifton, Enum Dist No. 3, Subdist of St. Phillip & Jacob. Lewis Simons, head. Oldest child listed as Maria, age 11, birthplace listed as
Gloucester.

! 1870 census for Chicago, IL, 9th ward, pg 2132, line 6. Home of Lewis Simons. Oldest child (dtr.) Rayna, age 20.

! Marriage Certif. State of Illinois, County of Cook, City of Chicago. Dec. 31, 1870. Jacob De Costa and Rayna Simons, by Justice of the Peace, Andrew Enzenbacher (copy of certif. on hand)

! 1880 census for Chicago, IL, Enum Dist No. 83, Pg 53, line 26. Jacob De Costa. Wife, Rayna De Costa, age listed as 27.

! Declaration for Widow's Pension, No. 508,910, filed 23 August, 1890, by Rayna De Costa, widow of Jacob De Costa, Union Army veteran.

! Death Certif. No. 4107, Dept of Health, City of Chicago. Died on Dec. 15, 1898, age given as 48 y, 6 mo.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
Her place of birth is listed as Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Checking the BMD indexes I can find nothing that fits so I assume that this is an error, but it is strange one.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Listed as Maria
Indexed as Simmons

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cigar Maker
• Reference Number: J 0490a
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; : 30y; Address: 1 Old Castle Street
• Occupation: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; Cigar Maker; : 30y

Notes:

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head
Segar Maker
Also has his sister, Elizabeth Siegenburg? living with them.

Aaron married Cathline [DA COSTA] before 1843. Cathline was born about 1824 in Whitechapel, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: J 0490b
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; : 27y; Address: 1 Old Castle Street

Notes:

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Wife

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1663b
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Aldgate, London, England; : 18y; Address: 1 Nightingale Place
• Occupation: 6 Jun 1841, Aldgate, London, England; Baker; : 18y
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; : 28y; Address: Old Court
• Occupation: 30 Mar 1851, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; Traveller; : 28y
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Bristol, Somerset, England; : 38y; Address: Gloucester Lane

Notes:

Note from Manfred Lindner's records:-
The great-grandfather, born in London, but after marriage in 1845 moved to Bristol where he and hsis wife Jane raised seven children. They immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1869/70, settling in Chicago, where they opened a furniture store on Blue
Island Ave. Some time between 1875 and 1883 their son-in-law, Jacob De Costa, assumed operation of the furniture store business, and the Simons opened a shoe store on W. Madison St. (Information and chronology from Chicago City business
directories).

I (Manfred) know of only one anecdote, related to me by Edwin De Costa in 1990, concerning Lewis Simons. It was said that, at the funeral in 1886 for his son-in-law Jacob De Costa, a dispute erupted between Lewis and Jacob's father, Aaron (Henry) De
Costa. This led to an exchange of blows between the two men, after which time there was apparently never again any communication between the two families.

Census:
Baker

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
In a lodging house listed as travellers

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head
??? Maker
Indexed as Simmons

Lewis married Jane JACOBS on 2 Apr 1845 in London, England. Jane (daughter of Moses JACOBS and Hannah SOLOMON) was born on 2 Mar 1827 in London, England; died on 21 Feb 1922 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1663a
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Whitechapel, London, England; : 14y; Address: Petticoat Square
• Various: 7 Mar 1844, Aldgate, London, England; : 17y; Address: 25 Petticoat Square
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; : 24y; Address: Old Court
• Occupation: 30 Mar 1851, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; Traveller; : 24y
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Bristol, Somerset, England; : 34y; Address: Gloucester Lane

Notes:

Note from Manfred Linder's data:-

Owing to her very long life, many of her great-grandchildren have vivid recollections of this great-grandmother. One story has it that whenever she saw a great-grandchild she would give him/her a nickel. Another was that she was a very tiny woman, possibly due to shrinkage associated with old age Lived to be nearly 95.

She and husband settled in Chicago from London in 1869-70, opening a furniture store on Blue Island Avenue which was later taken over by their oldest daughter and son-in-law. Later they operated a shoe store on Jackson Boulevard. At the time of her death she was living in the home of her youngest son, Joseph Simons.

Various:
Moses and family were served with a Removal Order to return them to the parish of Christchurch from the parish of St Botolph.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
In a lodging house listed as travellers

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Wife
??? Maker
Indexed as Simmons

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Henry Simons
• Reference Number: J 0742a
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Aldgate, London, England; : 60y; Address: 1 Nightingale Place
• Occupation: 6 Jun 1841, Aldgate, London, England; Fruit Salesman; : 60y
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Tower Hamlets, London, England; : 72y; Address: 7th house in Three Tun Alley

Notes:

Tsevi usually translates as Henry.

Census:
Fruit Salesman

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head
As Henry Simons
No occupation listed

Tsevi married Reyna UZIELI. Reyna was born about 1792 in Whitechapel, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: J 0742b
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Aldgate, London, England; : 50y; Address: 1 Nightingale Place
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Tower Hamlets, London, England; : 59y; Address: 7th house in Three Tun Alley

Notes:

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Wife

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Dealer
• Reference Number: BR 1403a
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Various: 26 Jul 1837, Westminster, London, England; Address: Berwick Street
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Whitechapel, London, England; : 52y; Address: Petticoat Square
• Occupation: 6 Jun 1841, Whitechapel, London, England; Dealer; : 52y
• Various: 30 Jun 1841, Westminster, London, England; Address: Berwick Street
• Various: 7 Mar 1844, Aldgate, London, England; : 55y; Address: 25 Petticoat Square

Notes:

Various:
1837 Westminster Poll Book - Page 60 of PDF
Business premises entitled him to vote.
Voted for Evans and Leader

Census:
Dealer.

Various:
1841 Westminster Poll Book - Page 10
Business premises entitled him to vote.
Voted for Evans and Leader

Various:
Moses and family were served with a Removal Order to return them to the parish of Christchurch from the parish of St Botolph.

Died:
The exact date and address came from Manfred Lindner's records.
As at 2/Aug/2008 don't have a copy of the certificate.

Buried:
Date from Manfred Lindner's notes

Moses married Hannah SOLOMON on 8 Sep 1814 in London, England. Hannah was born between 1792 and 1798 in Aldgate, London, England; died on 7 Dec 1869 in Spitalfields, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: BR 1403b
• Reference Number: BR-J
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Whitechapel, London, England; : 45y; Address: Petticoat Square
• Various: 7 Mar 1844, Aldgate, London, England; : 48y; Address: 25 Petticoat Square
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; : 58y; Address: 6 Anne Place
• Occupation: 30 Mar 1851, Whitechapel, London, England; General Dealer; : 58y
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Tower Hamlets, London, England; : 63y; Address: 2 Bell Lane
• Occupation: 7 Apr 1861, Tower Hamlets, London, England; General Dealer; : 63y

Notes:

Birth:
Manfred Lindner's notes has a date and place of birth of 1795 at 2 Bell Lane.
My date range based on age in 1841,51,61 censuses

Census:
Recorded as Anna

Various:
Moses and family were served with a Removal Order to return them to the parish of Christchurch from the parish of St Botolph.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-Law
Widow.
General Dealer.
Born in Aldgate
Living with daughter Leah and her family. Also has 2 of her other children with her.
Listed as Anne

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head
Widow.
General Dealer.
Son Henry living with her.
Son David and his family in the same house.
Also in the same house is a Samuel Jacobs and family. Samuel and his family were born in Amsterdam, but it seems a bit of coincidence that they are living in the same house.

Died:
Cause of death not certified
Widow of Moses Jacobs, Seller of Sweet Meats, Deceased
Registered by Elizabeth Lee of 33 Back Church Lane, Whitechapel

Notes:

Married:
Note that the Hebrew name of his father (Aryeh Shirga Pais) is the link to other son's of Philip.