Family of Joseph MULLER and Jeanette SELIGMANN

Husband:	Joseph MULLER (c. 1761-1843)
Wife:	Jeanette SELIGMANN (1762-1830)
Children:	Gotthard MULLER (1797-1853)
	Aron Barug MULLER (1804-1885)
	Moses Juspa MULLER (1794-1874)
	Salomon MULLER (1795-1885)
Marriage	c. 1793

Husband: Joseph MULLER

Name:	Joseph MULLER1
Sex:	Male
Father:	Moses Gerstel LEVY (c. 1730-1788)
Mother:	Hafele KASCHEL (c. 1730-1788)
Birth	c. 1761	Lauterbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Residence	29 Oct 1808 (age 46-47)	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Death	1843 (age 81-82)	Hamburg, Germany

Wife: Jeanette SELIGMANN

Name:	Jeanette SELIGMANN
Sex:	Female
Father:	Seligmann COHN (c. 1730- )
Mother:	-
Birth	1762	Alsace, France
Residence	29 Oct 1808 (age 45-46)	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Death	1830 (age 67-68)	Hamburg, Germany

Child 1: Gotthard MULLER

Child 2: Aron Barug MULLER

Name:	Aron Barug MULLER5,6
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Henriette MARCUS (1821-1901)
Birth	5 Jun 1804	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France7
Residence	29 Oct 1808 (age 4)	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Residence	1885 (age 80-81)	Hamburg, Germany
	Address: Schlachterstraße Nordheim Stift
Occupation		Trader
Death	21 Sep 1885 (age 81)	Hamburg, Germany8
Burial	22 Sep 1885	Judischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg, Germany
	Address: Grave: A 11 - 143

Child 3: Moses Juspa MULLER

Name:	Moses Juspa MULLER9
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Henriette Fromet POPERT (1806- )
Birth	28 Dec 1794	Lauterbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Residence	29 Oct 1808 (age 13)	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Death	9 Nov 1874 (age 79)	Hamburg, Germany
Burial	Nov 1874	Judischer Friedhof Bornkampsweg, Hamburg, Germany
	Address: Grave: 180/66

Child 4: Salomon MULLER

Note on Husband: Joseph MULLER - shared note

Changed name to Muller 29 Oct 1808.

 

SOME SAY THAT Josef came from (Mulhausen) Elsace (or Alsace) where he owned a mill and was a (appointed ) grain supplier to Napoleon I. He was a very well-to-do man. But unfortunately everything was lost again. After the fall of the emperor he had to flee. He emigrated with his wife, who is presumed to have been Dutch, and his four sons, first to Danzig. Later they moved to Hamburg and there assumed the name Muller. Joseph's brother who remained in France called themselves Dreyfuss. Possibly a niece of Joseph is Rachel Feliz, France's greatest tragic actress who lived in the years 1828-1858.

 

Many years ago Bengt's grand aunt Sonja Bresky (Harryet and my grandmother Edith's youngest sister) declared the following sentence to her niece who wrote it down. I copied the sentence and in English translation it is says: "A Dreyfus fled disguised as a farmer in a double bonded carriage where his two sons were hidden."

 

He had 3-4 brothers one of whom may have been General Dreyfus. His niece was related to Napoleon Bonapart.

 

Joseph's brothers went to Paris and called themselves "Dreyfus". They formed the Dreyfus Company which developed into a world-wide bank and grain trade.

 

A niece of Joseph, Elisa Rachel Felix (1820-1858) was supposedly the greatest tragic actress France ever produced. She used to enchant to royal family near Berlin, and King Frederick William IV had a marble statue erected in her memory. Felix's father was a poor Jewish pedlar going from country fair to country fair. He had a huge brood of children. Rachel stood on the bridge across the Seine and was noticed by the director of the Comedie Francais, and that's how she became famous. She had a lifelong affair with the nephew of Napoleon, and had four children with him. They could not marry because she was Jewish.

 

The famous philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) was married to one of Joseph's nieces.

Note on Wife: Jeanette SELIGMANN - shared note

Changed name to Muller 29 Oct 1808.

Sources

1	"1784 Census Wissembourg".

2	"Hamburgisches Adress-Buch für 1847".
	Ancestry.com.

3	"Birth Certificate: Aron and Gotthard Muller".

4	"Hamburgisches Adress-Buch für 1847".
	Ancestry.com.

5	Ancestry.com, "Hamburg, Germany, Selected Deaths, 1876-1932" (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
	Ancestry.com.

6	"Birth Certificate: Aron and Gotthard Muller".

7	Ancestry.com, "Hamburg, Germany, Selected Deaths, 1876-1932" (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
	Ancestry.com.

8

Ibid.

9	"1855 Altona Census".

10	Ancestry.com, "Hamburg, Germany, Selected Deaths, 1876-1932" (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
	Ancestry.com.

11

Ibid.

12

Ibid.