Godert or Eljakum Cohen

COHEN (Descendants of Salomon Eljakum Cohen)

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With all the Caatjes/Catharina's through the generartions, I am convinced the mother of Salomon Cohen was Caatje or something similar.

1) Salomon Eljakum Cohen, birth ± 1640 Norden, Ost-Friesland?, estimated, died 3 Jul 1718 Amsterdam, Muiderberg Cemetery: 3 tammuz 5478 old Zalman Kohen, his father in law Jaakov Norden
Salomon Cohen was one of the 159 people who on 7 March 1670, in front of Notary Jacobus Snel, signed for the financing of the building of the Great Synagogue. His name in the list appears as Salomon Cohen, he signs as Salomon Eljakum Cats (confirm ation of the Hebrew name by employee of the Joods Historisch Museum).

D.E. Cohen, in his history of the family Cohen writes (summary):
Salomon son of Eljakum Cohen was registered as a member of the Hoogduitsche Gemeente (Ashkenazi community) in Amsterdam on 13 Tamus 5454 (1664), The sum he paid shows his father probably didn't live in Amsterdam (at least he wasn't a member of th e community). Salomon must have married before 1668, probably not in Amsterdam. He became the owner of two seats in the Synagogue in 1671 and bought several more, one of them in 1681 from his friend Abraham Levi Victoria (Italiaander family).

Besides Salomons sons Ezechiel, Isaac, Jacob and Philip he mentions
- Two daughters whose names he didn't know, but who married Simson Hannover (a son Joseph) and Jacob Levi Goslar. These turn out to be Trjntje and Vrouwtje, daughters of another Salomon Cohen with wife Sipora. In the registration of the marriag e intent the father is named as Salomon Cohen de Jonge.
- Daughter Ester. Born too early to be the other couple's daughter? In 1687 she married on the same date (father not "de Jonge"), and living in the same street as Bele/Bonele. She had a daughter Catharina ("Caatje") a daughter Judith, sons Phili p and Godert, all typical family names. At the circumcision of her grandson Moses Levie Snoek in 1724 the sandak was Philip Ezechiel Cohen. These facts convince me she was a daughter of Salomon Eljakum Cohen.
- Daughter Judith, she married Philip Andries Schnapper who later lived in Frankfurt. In 1712. Philip authorizes his brother in law Jacob Levi to sell some seats in the Synagogue. Philip died in 1740, Son Godert died in 1762, son Meijer died in 17 68.
The names Judith and Godert strongly suggest a relationship. was Jacob Levi a brother in law or had D.E. Cohen just assumed it was Jacob Levi Goslar?
On http://goldschmidt.tripod.com/schnap.shtml in the Schnapper-2 family tree: Feibelman Amschel Schnapper, grandson of Meier Schnapper, and sons Gottschalk and Meier, the same years of death. The source may have been one that D.E. Cohen used.

Like the van Emdens, Italiaanders, van Mindens and van Rees the Cohens were tobacco merchants. They owned tobacco fields in Amersfoort, Nijkerk and other places, processed and exported the indigenous tobacco, especially to the Nordic countries.
Aron Joseph (Moznum), one of the forefathers of the De Jong-Rintels was also a "tobachoer". Ezechiel de Jongh (Rintel) claimed in 1785 he himself had brought the tobacco trade to Oostende. to:
Egla Jacob Norden, alias: Engeltje, birth probably Norden, Ost-Friesland, died ± 4 Jun 1728 Amsterdam, Muiderberg Cemetery 27 si 5488 Egal'e widow of Zalman Kohen, daughter of Jacob Norden and Jetchen Isaacs

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