Philip Joseph

COHEN (Descendants of Salomon Eljakum Cohen)

Family page

Philip Joseph, son of Joseph Hartog and Ester Salomon Cohen
From "De geschiedenis van de familie Cohen" by D.E. Cohen: It seems Philip wanted to marry in Suriname against his mother's will. He was 21 by then. Ester and her new husband Levi Karpel passed a notarial act with notary Boots to that purpose, giv ing power of attorney to two other guardians, Juda Abrahams and Jacob Meyers in Suriname to do whatever possible to stop that marriage. Cohen didn't say when this happened, and I haven't found this act (yet).

6 May 1739 appeared before Notary Daniel vd Brink: Ester Salomon Cohen earlier widow of Joseph Hartog, now wife of Levij Karpel, also Levij Karpel and Levij Fles, who declared and affirmed:
That Philip Joseph, son of the first person present, who in the year 1719 left from here to Zuriname and is now living there, has always in this country behaved in a quiet and decent manner, without the least discredit,
That in the year 1719 after requesting and receiving her permission, he had left of his own accord to seek his fortune, without being forced by them or forcibly sent there for bad behaviour,
For reasons of knowledge at the time because the 2nd and 3rd persons present had been his guardians and because it is the truth they are willing to confirm this by oath.
To this was added a declaration by Mayors and Governors of the City that the three had declared the above to be true by Oath of the Jewish Nation, and had persisted it was the truth to the Secretary. Signed and sealed by L. Witsen, 13 May 1739 (A 'dam Archives 5075 10314/218).

In 1745 he was executor of the will of his half-brother Godschalk Levij, also in Suriname.

Registrations of births and deaths of Ashkenazi Jews in Suriname have survived from 1773. Civil marriages from 1736, but many marriage documents are illegible.
Some online family trees give him the surname Heilbron, but it makes little sense. There was a Joseph Philip Heilbron who died in Paramaribo 5 Nov 1801, but also a Joseph Philip Joseph in 1799.
Married 23 Jan 1736 Paramaribo, Suriname to:
Judith Wolff Salomons, died 8 May 1782 Paramaribo, Suriname, Widow Philip Joseph named Judit Wolf

1) Ester Philip Joseph, died ± 1791 Paramaribo, Suriname
Advert dated July 1791 in the Amsterdamsche Courant 29 Nov 1791 by Aron Joseph Polak, sworn clerk of the Orphan Board of the Hoogduitse Joodse Natie in Paramaribo concerning the estate of several people, one of them named Ester Philip Joseph.
The death of the others were all registered in Paramaribo, but there wasn't a registration that could have been hers.

2) Mariana Philip Joseph, birth ± 1740 Paramaribo, Suriname, died 13 May 1799 Paramaribo, Suriname, Mariana, wife of Isaak Jacob Eliazer
Married 1759 Paramaribo, Suriname, Intention to marry September 1759 Isaak Jacob Eliaser widower of the Hoogd Joodse Natie age 28 jaar born here witness Philip Jacobs ... Mariana Philip Joseph spinster of the Hoogd Joodse Natie age about 19 jaren witnesses Barent Juda and wife to:
Isaac Jacob Eliazer, birth ± 1731 Paramaribo, Suriname, died 18 Sep 1802 Paramaribo, Suriname

3) Joseph Philip Joseph, died 28 Dec 1791 Paramaribo, Suriname, registered as Joseph Philips

4) Goedschalk Philip Joseph, died 5 Mar 1775 Paramaribo, Suriname

5) Jacob Philip Joseph, died 7 Oct 1809 Paramaribo, Suriname
Godfather of Gerrit Jacobs (see notes on Levij Isaac Karspel, stepfather of his father Philip Joseph).

Main index A-Z