The Dessaur family
My side of the Dessaur family are from Nottingham UK and go back to the start of the 1900s. If anyone has more information regarding the family name please use the contact form on the home page and I will put all the info received on this site.
With great thanks to Mordechai Dessaur,
Myer, who was wounded in Gallipoli in the first world war and died in a hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.
He was the son of David Dessaur and his wife Amelia.
A war memorial is located in the northwest corner of St Cyprian's Church
Nottingham recording details of men who died in World War I. Their regimental details have been researched and recorded. It is inscribed with the following text.
"To the Glory of God and in Grateful memory of those who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914-1919 Grant them O Lord eternal rest and let light perpetual shine upon them"
He was the son of David Dessaur and his wife Amelia.
A war memorial is located in the northwest corner of St Cyprian's Church
Nottingham recording details of men who died in World War I. Their regimental details have been researched and recorded. It is inscribed with the following text.
"To the Glory of God and in Grateful memory of those who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914-1919 Grant them O Lord eternal rest and let light perpetual shine upon them"
Family History
The furthest back we can go is to a Jacob Hartog who was born in the town of Dessau, Germany in 1769. Around 1784 he moved to Amsterdam and there set up a theatre company. He had four sons – Mordechai is descended from the eldest son, we are descended from the youngest. At the time Jews did not have surnames, but when he reached Amsterdam he would have given his name as Jacob Hartog Dessauer (Dessauer is German which means, from Dessau)
The youngest son was Samuel Jacob( b 1800) who worked as a bar keeper and his son Jacob (b 1823) was a tailor.
Jacob married Elizabeth Sierles in Amsterdam in 1848, but then left her there and moved to London around 1851. He then married Jane SMAJE.
David (b 1857) worked as a slipper maker and then as cigar maker. In early 1891 he and his family moved to Nottingham.
Myer is an interesting offspring as he was born on 11th June 1888 in Whitechapel. – Jack the Ripper country ( and time ) Jack struck between August and November of that year some within 150 yards or so of where baby Myer lived.
Emanuel was the youngest of David and Amelia’s children and was the only one born in Nottingham. I believe he was named after Amelia’s grandfather – Emanuel Voss
The youngest son was Samuel Jacob( b 1800) who worked as a bar keeper and his son Jacob (b 1823) was a tailor.
Jacob married Elizabeth Sierles in Amsterdam in 1848, but then left her there and moved to London around 1851. He then married Jane SMAJE.
David (b 1857) worked as a slipper maker and then as cigar maker. In early 1891 he and his family moved to Nottingham.
Myer is an interesting offspring as he was born on 11th June 1888 in Whitechapel. – Jack the Ripper country ( and time ) Jack struck between August and November of that year some within 150 yards or so of where baby Myer lived.
Emanuel was the youngest of David and Amelia’s children and was the only one born in Nottingham. I believe he was named after Amelia’s grandfather – Emanuel Voss
