Rebekah Boerboom

Ashton is the first born of William Weisfeld and his first wife Grace. He was a chief in the Navy during WWII. He was a radar specialist and an engineer. Married to Jane, with three children, Jane Wynne, William, Kathleen. He was an engineer in the firm of Weisfeld and Son, with his father William, in New Orleans, la. He was the half brother of Rebekah Weisfeld, mother Martha, second wife of William.

Second born to william Weisfeld and his first wife Grace

Sarah Alexander died in Maryland United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sarah Alexander.

Matthew Wallace was born in 1672 in Scotland United Kingdom. He was in a relationship with Sarah Alexander, and had a child Ezekiel Wallace. Matthew Wallace died at age 78 years old on May 3, 1751 in Cecil County, Maryland United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Matthew Wallace.

Ezekiel Wallace was born circa 1735 in Glasgow, Glasgow City County, Scotland United Kingdom to Matthew Wallace and Sarah Alexander, and died at age 77 years old on January 24, 1813 at Mecklenburg, NC, USA. Ezekiel Wallace was buried on January 23, 1813 at Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church 101 W Sugar Creek Rd, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ezekiel Wallace.

Wife of William Weisfeld

Only living child of William Weisfeld

William was born in New York City, in 1895 to Rose and Abraham Weisfeld. He was the middle child of seven children. In 1905, his father died, so Rose, not speaking english, surrendered her children, temporarily, while she attended night school. As a child, he sold newspapers on a corner in ' Hell's kitchen ' in New York. At the age of eleven, he entered the Juillard School of Music, studied the French horn and stayed there for three years. He spoke five languages, English, German, Russian, Italian, Yiddish and had a working knowledge of Hebrew. He knew Irving Berlin and at the age of nineteen, he travelled the country with an Italian band, as a musician, manager and translator. None of them spoke English! The band was disbanded in New Orleans. There, he went to Tulane night school and studied to be an electrician. He began to work for LP&L light company. Later, he met and married Grace, his first wife and had three children, Ashton, Dorothy, Judy. He later lived for a time in Florida but returned to New Orleans and went into business, with a loan of 635.00 from the bank, bought an old model A Ford, with no top and bad brakes. His colleagues would call him ' Chief rain in the face', because he got rained on! He divorced Grace around 1945 and in April 1947, he married Martha Virginia Jones and had one child in 1950, Rebekah. They were married for twenty one years, until his death, in 1968. He was a ' Reformed ' Jew and was a member of Touro Synagogue. He built one of the largest electrical contracting firms in the south, Weisfeld and Son, with just an eighth grade education! A self made man! He died in May, 1968, of thrombosis, a clot in his neck, at 73, on a Saturday morning, while preparing to go to the office! He had a wonderful baritone voice and he and Martha, who was a Methodist, often sang, as a duet in her Methodist Church. William respected the Methodist religion and was a contributor to the church as well as to the synagogue. On Friday nights and on the High Holidays, the family would attend services at the synagogue and on Sunday, would go to Munholland, Memorial Methodist Church. He used to say, " I love the way Methodist shake hands!" He is buried in Metairie Lawn Cemetery, in Metairie, la.

Abraham Weisfeld of Uniondale, Nassau County, NY was born on May 6, 1892, and died at age 86 years old in March 1979.

Abraham was married to rose and they had 7 children - Joseph, louis, Benjamin, Gabriel, William, judith, Bertha and maybe a solomon, not sure. He may have been a lawyer. While living in Brest, he was banished to Siberia, then escaped, arriving in New York in 1885, becoming a citizen in 1888. He was the secretary of the Brest Benevolent Society in 1890. He was a union member. He rolled cigars for a living. He is buried in Mt. Zion cemetery.

About, 1888, she left Brest. I believe, she left with a group of 18 young women who had become displaced by one of the many fires that plagued Brest. She traveled alone to New York. Much of her time before she met and married Abraham Weisfeld, is unknown but sometime around 1890, they married. In 1891, they had their first child, joseph, followed by Louis, benjamin, Gabriel, william, Bertha, judith. She did not speak English well, so when Abraham died in 1905, she was forced to give her children to an orphanage temporarily and she may have had health issues. She went to night school, learned English and a trade and then retrieved her children.