Descendants of: Sarah LYON
As directly related to me (Paul
Birman)
1 Sarah
LYON (5th
great-grandmother)b. 1703 Amsterdam, HOLLAND d. 1808 Ipswich, ENGLAND
m. Abraham TITTERMAN*
Her surname has been variously printed as
Titterman, Ezekiel, Abraham and
Levy According to notes found in the Hyamson
papers - Raphael - Sarah Lyon went
to England when her son was nine months old
2 Daughter TITTERMAN (4th
great-grandmother)(RC?)
m. Moshe ANSELL
Letter to Netta Rosenbaum
3 Ansell (Asher?) ANSELL (3rd
great-grandfather)b. 1761 HOLLAND d. 1838 Ipswich, ENGLAND
m. Martha (Ansell) d. 15 Dec 1838
London, Middx. ENGLAND
P125 of Jews of Ireland states he was
native of Holland
Hyamson says he he is mentioned in the
Ipswich Jewish Cemetery
as Ansell Ansell but on his tree lists him
as Asher
Died at Rope (Hope?) Lane, St. Clements
Jews of Ireland uses dates of 1758 to
1835 but death cert. says he died in
1838 at age of 77.
4 Myer ANSELL (2nd
great-grandfather) b. 1809 London, ENGLAND
d. 1 Nov 1875 Leeds, ENGLAND
m. Jessie POLLACK b. 1810 London,
ENGLAND d. 22 Jul 1887
1850 Lived at 17 Copenhagen St, LEEDS
5 David ANSELL (Great-grandfather)b.
1840 Middlesex, LONDON d. 15 Nov 1878
m. 26 Jul 1866 ENGLAND Amelia BOOTH b. 21 Jun 1846
Selby, East Anglia, ENGLAND d. 19 Jun 1914 Leeds, ENGLAND
Lived at 10 Belgrave Street,
Leeds, ENGLAND
Secretary to the Duke's Place
Synagogue - JC 11/22/1861
6 George Asher ANSELL
(Grandfather) b. 24 Feb 1867 Leeds, ENGLAND
d. 26 Dec 1954 New York, U.S.A.
m. C.1890 New York, U.S.A. Sophie BELASCO b.
C.1872 N.Y., U.S.A.
d. 1933
Orphaned as a child. Ran away from home and lived with uncle
in Leeds.
Lived at 10 Belgrave Street, Leeds
At age of 13 (acc. to 1881 census)
was at
Olive Hospital and
Orphan Asylum which later became
Norwood Orphanage.
7 Jean ANSELL
(mother) b. 16 Jan 1903 d. JAN 1963 Flushing, Queens, NY
m. 1933 Max BIRMAN b. 16 Apr 1897 d. DEC 1966 Flushing,
Queens NY
Max Birman was a civil
engineer, graduate of NYU and chief engineer
for the White Construction Company, builder of the original Yankee
Stadium,
Hayden Planetarium, St.
Vincent’s hospital, the Cyclotron at Brookhaven
National Labs and the
clubhouses at Aqueduct and Belmont racetracks..
8 Paul BIRMAN (self) b. 3 Aug 1935
A retired electrical
engineer who worked for power supply manufacturer,
Kepco, Inc. as its
Marketing Manager.
m. 1968 Rosemarie VAN D'ELDEN b.
22 Dec 1935
Rosemarie is a retired mainframe computer programmer and data
processing
consultant. She was born in
Frankfurt, Germany as an American citizen.
Her father was the Secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce
Frankfurt
In the years before the second World War.
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