Lax Family Tree » Jonas or Theodore Israel Lax (1770-1827)

Personal data Jonas or Theodore Israel Lax 

• Alternative names: jonas lax, Jonas or Theodore (Israel) Lax
• He was born in the year 1770 in Ligota Polska, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.

  Place of birth (Lorke near Oels) from his Staatsbuergerbrief. On the arrival of son Hirsch in Neumarkt in 1819, Hirsch is described as Sohn des Staatsbuergers Jonas Lax zu Lorke Oelsn.Kreises.

• Alternative: He was born in the year 1770 in Ligota Polska, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.

  Jonas in Hebrew means "dove". Greek word οιωνός. As a variation of Jonah, it can mean a 'gift from God'. Gift from God = Theodore in Greek.

• Alternative: He was born in the year 1780 in Ziemielowice, Opolskie, Poland.

  The book by B. Brilling says Die Familie Lax stammt aus Simmelwitz. This suggests he was born there, but that depends upon when the family moved from Simmelwitz. The birth of both sons in Lorke in 1799 and 1800 suggests that Simmelwitz was just a stopping

• Profession: in the year 1798 Occuptation Shankpaechter - with a formal tenancy of a public house or Inn. Described on death certificate of his son, Moses. in Ligota Polska, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.
• Resident:
• on September 14, 1807: Syców, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.
• in the year 1800: Ligota Polska, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.
• in the year 1799: Ligota Polska, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.
• in the year 1803: Namyslów, Opolskie, Poland.
• He died in the year 1827 in Namyslów, Opolskie, Poland, he was 57 years old.

  a guess based on fact he moved to Namslau in 1803 and this was the local cemetary. Date assumed from Hirschel naming his son Theodore in 1828

• Alternative: He died.

Household of Jonas or Theodore Israel Lax

He had a relationship with Maria Pappenheim Mühsam.

Child(ren):

1. Moses Lax  1800-1876 
2. Hirschel Lax  1800-1864 

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