Earlier Generations

ANCESTORS OF REBECCA REYZER, WIFE OF MYER SAMUEL ISAACS 

[There is little known about where Myer Samuel Isaacs came from before his arrival in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, but there is substantial information about REBECCA SAMUELS REYZER’s well-established family in Leeuwarden.]

[REBECCA REYZER’s great great grandparents] A.  MOZES POLACK (Drogischt), born 1650 or 1651. Child of Mozes Polack: Marcus Mozes Polack

[REBECCA REYZER’s great grandparents] B. MARCUS MOZES POLACK (Drogischt), born 1673, died 1751. He married SARA MOZES, born 1675, died 1723

or MARCUS (MODECHAI) DOKKUM (Source: Chaim Caran, e-mail 3 March 2018)

[REBECCA REYZER’s grandparents] C. ISAACQ MARCUS IZAK DE JONGH (Dokkum), born 1710 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, died 06 January 1763 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He was also known in Leeuwarden as Isak Katzav or Isak Marcus and his job was butcher. He married RACHEL ELIAS. His father was MORDECHAI DOKKUM (Source: e-mail from Chaim Caran, 22 November 2010.).

Children of ISAACQ DE JONGH and RACHEL ELIAS are:

  1.  JACOB IZAKS DE JONG , b. 11 May 1735 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. Married Hiske Hiltje Jacobs de Jong (born Gossens)
  2.   FROUKJE ISAACS DE JONG , b. 1737 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands;, d. 20 October 1818. Married Joel Jacob Levy de Roos
  3. iii. BREINE IZAKS, b. September 1740, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands; d. 13 July 1826, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands.
  4.  MOZES IZAK ISAACS DE JONG,  b. 1745 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands; d. 1812, married Hiske de Jong (born Gossens)

[REBECCA REYZER’s parents] D. BREINE IZAKS (ISAACQ MARIUS IZAK DE JONGH) (Also: Breine Isaaks\Izaks\Isacks de Jong) was born 1740 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands, and died 13 July 1826 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. She married SAMUEL SALAMON JACOBS REYZER (Also: Jakobs Reijzer), born 1739 or 1740, died 1811 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland.

Children of BREINE IZAKS and SAMUEL REYZER are:

       i. DOETJE REYZER, b. 1770, d.1841; m. JACOB LEVI DE BEER, 30 July 1802, Leewarden, Holland; Jacob died in 1850.

3     ii. REBECCA SAMUELS REYZER, b. 1772, died in London, England 1844, m. MYER SAMUEL ISAACS on November 11, 1796.

iii.  JACOB REYZER, b.1773, d.1807, m. MINKE POLLACK

iv. ISAK SAMUEL REYZER, b. Abt. 1776; m. JUDICK JUDICJE SALOMON POLACK (or Pollack); b. 1783, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland; d. 01 May 1834, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland.

       v. RACHEL SAMUELS REYZER, b. 1779, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland; d. 07 August 1854, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland; m. JACOB JOEL LEVY DE ROOS 19 October  1804; b. 1767, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland; d. 09 June 1828, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland. Job: Kantoor klerk

       vi. ELIAS SAMUEL REYZER, b. 1788, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland; d. 01 May 1854, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland. Job: Stockbroker

[Sources of the earlier generations: From Clare Lee, from JewishGen Listserv.) Also, ancestry.com,]