2. BRIEJNE (BRANDINA)2 ISAACS (Myer Samuel1) was born about 1803 in Leeuwarden, Holland. She married Jacob Nathan Cohen-Bessie, son of Nathan Daniel Cohen-Bessie and Esther Ruben Stokkeman (Cohen) on 23 Oct 1838 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was born on 31 May 1812.
Jacob Nathan Cohen-Bessie and Briejne (Brandina) Isaacs had the following child:
8. i. REBECCA (BESSIE)3 COHEN was born in 1842. She died in 1911. She married HIJMAN KIEK. He was born on 12 Sep 1839 in Groningen, The Netherlands. He died on 05 Jun 1905 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3. SAMUEL MYER2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) was born 04 January 1804 in Leeuwarden, Holland, and died 19 May 1878 in New York, NY. He married JANE SYMMONS 25 June 1839. She was born 1823 in London, England, and died 21 May 1884 in New York, NY.
Notes for RABBI SAMUEL MYER ISAACS:
Rev. Samuel Myer Isaacs was born on 04 January 1804 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Holland. He moved with his family to London, England, in 1814. He was a professor of Hebrew and principal of an orphan asylum in London.
He was chosen to head a Jewish congregation in New York, B’nai Jeshurun. He married Jane Simons (originally Symmons) on 26 June 1839, and then embarked on a 63 – 65 day sea voyage to New York City. Most of his siblings stayed in London, although one brother spent many years as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia.
Isaacs was the first U.S. rabbi to deliver sermons regularly in English. In 1845, he helped found Congregation Shaaray Tefila. He was a defender of orthodox Judaism against Reform Judaism. He established a weekly newspaper called “Jewish Messenger.” He was an ardent abolitionist, driving away many Southern readers of his newspaper.
He was active in many civic and philanthropic organizations: founder of Board of Delegates of American Israelites (1859), which worked for Jewish civil and religious rights in the U.S. and abroad and treasurer of Palestine Society from its founding in 1854; one of the founders of Jews’ Hospital, later named Mt. Sinai Hospital; chosen to represent the Jewish Community at Abraham Lincoln’s funeral in New York in April 1866.
He died on 18 May 1878.
Notes for JANE SYMMONS:
Jane Symmons name has also been spelled Symons and Simons
Children of SAMUEL ISAACS and JANE SYMMONS are:
9. i. MYER SAMUEL3 ISAACS was born on 08 May 1841 in New York, NY. He died on 24 May 1904 in New York, NY. He married (PHOBE) MARIA SOLOMON. She was born on 25 Jan 1850. She died on 26 Mar 1889 in New York, NY.
ii. RABBI JACOB STANLEY ISAACS, b. 1843; d. 19 June 1911.
10. iii. ISAAC S. ISAACS was born on 01 Nov 1845. He died on 07 Dec 1906. He married ESTELLE SOLOMON. She was born in 1851. She died on 03 May 1879.
iv. MIRIAM ISAACS, b. October 20, 1849; d. Unknown.
11. v. ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS was born on 30 Aug 1851 in New York, New York. He died on 22 Dec 1920 in Patterson, New Jersey. He married Lilly Lee Harby on 23 Apr 1890.
vi. REBECCA ISAACS, born 1857; died 1890.
vii. RACHEL ISAACS was born on 10 Oct 1858. She died on 07 Jul 1904. She married V.E. ABECASSIS.
viii. SARAH ISAACS, b. 1859; d. 26 May 1917.
4. LEWIS MYER2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) was born 1807 in Leeuwarden, Holland, and died 18 June 1869. He married JANE HARRIS?. She was born in 1805 and died 22 December 1869. (Source: e-mail from Elizabeth (Liz) Ann Foord, 14 September 1997, (2) e-mail from Clare Lee [clare@mn.rr.com], 23 July 2005, (3) e-mail from Jennifer Southwood 2015.)
Notes for LEWIS MYER ISAACS:
Lewis Myer Isaacs Lewis Myer Isaacs was born in Leeuwarden, Holland in 1806-1807 and then moved with his family to London, England in 1814. He also may have been called Leib or Levi at various times. Of all the brothers, he was the one who did not become a rabbi, but rather an attorney. He lived at 111 Lemans Street in London and then moved to St. Thomas’ Square, Hackney, London. He was active in the Jewish community and served three successive periods as president of the Society of Social Friends in London.
Children of LEWIS ISAACS and JANE are:
12. i . ISAAC LEWIS 3 ISAACS, b. about 1833 (Source: Decennial Census Schedules, 1841, (Source: Decennial Census Schedules, 1841 – H.O.107,716, Box 9, f, 33, p.101851 – H.O. 107,1546, f. 165, p.91861 – R.G.9.158, f. 73, pp.15&16.). He married Hannah ?, born in Vienna, Austria. She died in 16 Dec 1867 in New South Wales. Their children are: Adolphus Isaacs, b. 1857, Henry Isaacs, b. Wellington, NSW, Australia 1859, Samuel Isaacs, b. 1861, Phillip M. Isaacs, b. 1863.
ii. FANNY ISAACS, b. Abt. 1835 and d. 10 January 1894 in Den Helder, North Holland, The Netherlands, m. Moses Van Gilder (also listed as Mozes Levie van Gelder). He died in 1895 in The Netherlands.
iii. REBECCA ISAACS, b. about 1837, She married Abraham Solomon(s) of Holland b. around 1826 in Hounsditch,London,Mddsx.,England. Their children were: Rebecca Solomon, born around 1857, Jane Solomon, born 1858, Annie Solomons, born 1864, Nellie Solomons, born 1866, Harry Solomons, born 1868, Fred Solomons, born 1869, Phillip Solomons, born 1872, Charlie Solomons, born 1973. Source: Timothy Lever family tree on MyHeritage web site.
13. iv. MYER LEWIS3 ISAACS was born about 1839. He died on 02 Mar 1907 in 163 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, Middlesex, England. He married Julia Levy, daughter of Markes Levy on 27 Nov 1867 in 14 The Crescent, Plymouth, England. She was born in 1844. She died on 08 Oct 1915 in 163 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, Middlesex.
14. v. ANN ISAACS was born on 14 Jul 1841 in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England. She married Joseph Levi on 19 Aug 1863 in London Bridge House Hotel, Lndon, England. He was born in 1834 in Plymouth, Devon, England. He died on 01 Apr 1876 in 40 Castle St., Holborn.
5. RACHEL2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) b. about 1807, Leeuwarden, Holland. She may have married Barend?/Barnet ? Phillipson ( children Philip (in Sydney) /Sara/Betsy x q2 1849 in St. Lukes Meyer Gluckstein/Rebecca x q2 1846 City London Isaac Elkins (Elkan) /Phoebe in London [Source: e-mail from Chaim Caran, 28 February 2018].
i. PHILIP3 PHILLIPSON.
ii. SARA PHILLIPSON.
iii. BETSY PHILLIPSON.
iv. MEYER GLUCKSTEIN PHILLIPSON.
v. REBECCA PHILLIPSON.
vi. ISSAC ELKINS (ELKAN) PHILLIPSON.
vii. PHOEBE PHILLIPSON.
6. JACOB MYER2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) was born 1808 in Leeuwarden, Holland, and died 22 December 1865 in London, England. He married BLOOMA OR ROSE. She was born 1810 in Holland, and died 17 February 1888 in London, England.
Notes for BLOOMA OR ROSE:
Her death certificate has the name Blooma crossed out, and then the name Rose. The date of death is February 17, 1888. Her maiden name may have been Collins.
Children of JACOB ISAACS and BLOOMA or ROSE are:
(sources for the birth dates of Rebecca, Maria, Lewis and Nathaniel is York St. Synagogue Birth register, sent via e-mail of June 2, 2004 by Gary Luke)
i. MYER 3ISAACS (Source: e-mail from Terry Newman, Sydney, Australia, 20 May 2005.), b. 1838; d. 12 March 1852, Sydney, Australia.
Notes for Myer Isaacs:
Myer David Isaacs was a playwright and actor in Sydney. He was born in 1838 by one estimate, probably in London, England, and almost surley earlier.. At some point he moved to Australia, where his uncle Jacob Myer Isaacs already lived.
An 12 April 1845 article in “The People’s Advocate” wrote of him as the author of comedietta. On 2 November 1860, another of his plays, again a comedy, was performed in Sydney and was refiewed in the Sidney Morning Herald.
He then spent a couple of years as newspaper editor of “The Miner and General Advertiser” in Lambing Flat – Burrangong in the newly discovered gold fields in the West of New South Wales. He apparently was an able journalist and a powerful orator.
He became involved in several institutions, including the Burrangong Race Club, Burrangong Amateur Dramatic Society, a committee for the relief of the “Victims of the Recent Murderous Outrage,” the Burrangong Prospecting Association and the Diggers’ Mutual Society.
He authored another play, “The Battle for Life,” which was performed in 1862 in Sydney. He returned to the gold fields, and was active in pressing for better police protection of the gold transports and better roads in the area. He also appeared to practie some law.
In 1865, he moved to Brisbane, where his new play “The Bell of Brisbane or the Lady of Queensland” was performed.
There is no mention of a wife or children
[Source: Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. IX, Part 4, Novembere 1982]
[Source: e-mail from Terry Newman, Sydney, Australia, May 20, 2005: “Some of the following notes, that came from my transcriptions from some old Sydney tombstones done in the early 1970’s, helps to clarify a few points. From the tombstones: Myer, 2nd son of Jacob Isaacs, Reader to the Sydney Synagogue, died 12.3.1852 aged 14.”]
15. ii. REBECCA3 ISAACS was born on 11 May 1840 in Sydney, Australia. She died on 24 Feb 1915 in Auckland, New Zealand. She married Gabriel Lewis, son of Lewis Solomon on 19 May 1863 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in 1837 in England. He died on 26 Nov 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Source: Family tree prepared by Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Foord in 1997.), b. May 11, 1840, Sydney, Australia. REBECCA married Gabriel Lewis in Auckland, New Zealand on May 19, 1863. Information about marriage of Rebecca and Gabriel Lewis came from New Zealander newspaper, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 May 1863; information discovered by Elizabeth Foord.
16. iii. MARIA ISAACS was born on 09 Dec 1842 in Sydney, Australia. She died on 25 Sep 1871 in 48 Mansell St, Goodman’s Fields, London, England. She married Lawrence Moses Samuel on 19 Apr 1863 in 13 St. Mark Street, Great Prescott Street. He was born about 1839. He died in 1893. (Source: Family tree prepared by Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Foord in 1997.)
17. iv. LEWIS ISAACS was born on 26 Dec 1844 in Sydney, Australia. He died on 22 Dec 1921 in New York, New York, USA. He married Claressa Jane Gesner on 14 Nov 1869. She was born on 21 Apr 1853 in Connecticut, USA. She died on 04 Aug 1931 in Vermont, USA.
18. v. NATHANIEL JOHN ISAACS was born on 25 Sep 1846 in Sydney, Australia. He died on 20 Feb 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. He married Kate Levi on 30 Dec 1874 in N. Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. She died in 1924.
19. vi. FANNY ISAACS was born in 1852 in Sydney, Australia. She died on 06 Aug 1923 in 4 Bolton Road, Stratford. She married Barnett Lelyveld, son of Levy Lelyveld and Doetjd Slier on 28 Oct 1874. He was born in 1848 in The Hague, Holland. He died on 08 Mar 1930 in West Ham, London, England.
20. vii. SAMUEL ISAACS was born in 1853 in Sydney, Australia. He died in London, England. He married Elizabeth Samuels on 23 Apr 1879 in Middlesex, England. (Source: Family tree prepared by Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Foord in 1997.), b. 1852, Sydney, Australia; m. ELIZABETH “LIZZIE” SAMUEL.
More About SAMUEL ISAACS:
Emigrated: April 22, 1879, Moved to London. According to February 2004 e-mails from June Ingleby, living in Victoria, Australia, whose husband had as his grandfather Samuel Isaacs, there were five children: Elizabeth Isaacs, born about 1881, Jacob Hiram Samuel Isaacs, born about 1884, Joseph Isaacs, born about 1887, Ernest Isaacs, born about 1888, Miriam Isaacs, born about 1889. Jacob Isaacs at some point changed his name to Jack Ingram (a fact only discovered shortly before 2004 e-mails). He married Ethel Louise Winifred Williams. They had as a child Barbara Isaacs, whose name later became Barbara Ingram, born in 1906. Barbara Ingram married Walter Ingleby in 1932, and they had three children. The middle child, Derrick Ingleby, born in 1932, married June.
7. DAVID MYER2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) was born 1810 in Leeuwarden, Holland, and died after catching the flu 01 May 1879 in Southport, England near Liverpool. He is buried in the Jewish Cemetery, Prestwich, Manchester, United Kingdom. He married ESTHER LEVY 1832. She was born 1817, and died 1886.
Notes for REV. PROFESSOR DAVID MYER ISAACS:
David Myer Isaacs was born in 1810 in Leeuwarden, Holland. He moved with his parents to London, England in 1814. He was placed under the tutelage of Solomon Herschell, then Chief Rabbi of the Jews of Great Britain.
His first congregation was in Bristol, England in about 1832, the same year he married Esther Levy, daughter of Joel Levy and Rachel Joseph. He was the first rabbi in England to deliver regularly sermons in English. In 1835, be began serving the ministry in Liverpool, where he remained for 35 years. He also served for about 20 years as Professor at the Liverpool College, where he taught Hebrew and oriental literature. Finally, he settled in Manchester, England. For many years, he alternated preaching at both Liverpool and Manchester. In 1837, he delivered a funeral oration on the occasion of the burial of King William IV.
An obituary in “The Jewish Messenger,” founded by his brother Samuel Myer Isaacs, said: “His name and fame were not confined to Great Britain. His bold and manly utterances, his independent bearing, his unswerving and uncompromising adherence to the Judaism of his fathers, his matchless eloquence and power as a pulpit orator, were themes of admiration in all countries where English Jews or their descendants had residence.”
The obituary also compares the two brothers, David and Samuel, saying they closely resembled each other in voice and manner, as well as physical build. It goes on “With them, their Judaism was not confined to the synagogue; but ever ready as they were to aid all causes that tended to the improvement of their people, they never shirked their duties as citizens of the commonweath, and advocated and substantially turthered? all public institutions.”
[The same obituary describes him as the youngest of five brothers.]
In another obituary, he was described as rigidly orthodox and of the “old school,” although “fairly tolerant” of other views. He was also described as being “gifted with a forcible, somewhat impulsive and eloquent style of oratory, tinged with a peculiarly caustic humor, he became very popular as a preacher.”
In 1872, he traveled to New York to be present at the 70th birthday of his brother, Samuel Myer Isaacs (Jewish Chronicle, 27 December 1872). He is credited with inventing the domestic fire escape.
He died on 01 May 1879.
The Register of Births and Burials of the Old Hebrew Congregation (Elizabeth Ford has a copy), 21 March 1886, lists the birth dates of Joel, Elias, Julia, Aragbella, Sarah, Caroline and Myer David. According to these records, two children died in their first year, Elias and Caroline.
Sources; “The Jewish Messenger,” 16 May 1979, New York
“A Short Biography of the Author” by his eldest daughter Ellen Isaacs, written as a forward to the Funeral Oration on the burial of King William IV in 1896.
Obituary in “The Jewish Chronicle,” 09 May 1879
More About RABBI DAVID MYER ISAACS:
Interesting fact: One of first rabbis to preach in English
The family is written up in the 1851 Anglo-Jewry database. They are also present in the 1861 census with 8 of the 14 children still at home. There may have been a birth between Barnard and Henry. If so she was named Ann Jane Isaacs born June 1859, see (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, v8b p218). I can’t find them in the 1871 census. In the 1881 census, Esther was described as Head of Household, an annuitant living at 32 Herbert St Cheethan Manchester with Arabella aged 28, Hannah aged 26 and Ellen aged 18 who were all governesses. Esther may have died the first quarter of 1886 in Prestwich Lancashire v8d, p240; Jewish Chronicles 14/05/1886 p1 has a thank you note for condolences. (Source: Mary Watson e-mail 01 August 2010)
Children of DAVID ISAACS and ESTHER LEVY are:
i. ?3 ISAACS. She married ? Joseph
21. i. RACHEL ISAACS b. 1835 (source 1851 census), d. 24 March 1874. She married HENRY JOSEPHI. He was born about 1821.
ii. MYER DAVID ISAACS (Source: Anthony Joseph family tree 1997.), b. 08 January 1837. Present with family in 1851 UK census
Notes for MYER DAVID ISAACS:
Myer David Isaacs was a playwright and actor in Sydney. He was born in 1851 by one estimate, probably in London, England, and probably earlier than 1851. At some point he moved to Australia, where his uncle Jacob Myer Isaacs already lived. An 12 April 1856 article in “The People’s Advocate” wrote of him as the author of comedietta. On 02 November1860, another of his plays, again a comedy, was performed in Sydney, and was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
He then apparently spent a couple of years as newspaper editor of “The Miner and General Advertiser” in Lambing Flat – Burrangong on the newly discovered gold fields in the West of New South Wales. He apparently was an able journalist and a powerful orator. He became involved in several institutions: secretary of the Burrangong Race Club, founder and chairman of the Burrangong Amateur Dramatic Society, organized a committee for the relief of the “Victims of the Recent Murderous Outrage,” president of the Burrangong Prospecting Association and the Diggers’ Mutual Society and secretary of a move to secure better parliamentary representation of the area.
He authored another play, “The Battle of Life,” which was performed in 1862 in Sydney. He returned to the gold fields, and was active in pressing for better police protection of the gold transports and for better roads in the area. He also appeared to practice some law.
In 1865, he moved to Brisbane, where his new play “The Bell of Brisbane or the Lady of Queensland” was performed.
(Sources: Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. IX, Part 4, November 1982,
Bergman, G.F.J, “Jacob Myer Isaacs,”, Australian Jewish Historical Society – November 1982, p.244.)
iii. ELLEN ISAACS (Source: Anthony Joseph family tree 1997, also source 1851 census), b. 1839, d. 28 June 1907.
iv. CAROLINE ISAACS, b. 28 March 1841; d. March 1841, (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, vol 28 p.428).
22. v. JOEL DAVID ISAACS was born 08 July 1842. He married AMELIA. She was born in 1848 in New York, USA. (Source: (1) e-mail from Kathryn Berman, August 08, 2000., (2) Anthony Joseph family tree 1997.)
vi. ELIAS ISAACS b. 02 July 1844 (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, 20 341); d. October 19, 1844. (Sources: Anthony Joseph family tree 1997; (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, 20 249)
vii. LIONEL (LYONN) ISAACS was born March 1846 (Sources: (1) e-mail from Kathryn Berman, August 08, 2000., (2) Anthony Joseph family tree 1997.),(The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, 20 380). Present with family in 1861 census, aged 15, occupation “working in a merchant’s office” (Source: Mary Watson e-mail August 1, 2010).
23. viii. JULIA ISAACS, b. 13 March 1848 and died 02 February 1901. She married SAMUEL LICHTENSTEIN. He was born in 1856 and died in 1920. (Source: The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, 20, 306);
ix. ARABELLA ISAACS (Source: Anthony Joseph family tree 1997.), b. April 15, 1850.
x. SARAH ISAACS was born 15 April 1850. (Source: Anthony Joseph family tree 1997.)
xi. HANNA ISAACS was born in September 1854. She married . SAM CASRIL. (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, 87b 115);
24. xii. BARNARD DAVID (Barney) ISAACS was born in 1856 in Manchester, England. He died on 13 May 1904 in 52 Talbot Road, Bayswater, England. He married Leah Dutch on 04 Apr 1878. She was born in 1856. She died on 29 Jan 1938 in 157 West End Lane, NW.
xiii. Henry Isaacs, b. Sep 1860 (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, v8b p106). Present with the family in the 1861 census aged 12 months (Source: Mary Watson e-mail 01 August 2010).
More About this branch of the family:
The family is written up in the 1851 Anglo-Jewry database. They are also present in the 1861 census with 8 of the 14 children still at home. There may have been a birth between Barnard and Henry. If so she was named Ann Jane Isaacs born June 1859, see (The England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, v8b p218). I can’t find them in the 1871 census. In the 1881 census, Esther was described as Head of Household, an annuitant living at 32 Herbert St Cheethan Manchester with Arabella aged 28, Hannah aged 26 and Ellen aged 18 who were all governesses. Esther may have died the first quarter of 1886 in Prestwich Lancashire v8d, p240; Jewish Chronicles 14/05/1886 p1 has a thank you note for condolences. (Source: Mary Watson e-mail 01 August 2010)
Isaacs-Salant Family 