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John Kerry Genealogy!
First Generation:
1. John Forbes KERRY was born on 11 Dec 1943 in Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Aurora, CO. John Forbes KERRY married:
1) Julia Stimson THORNE on 23 May 1970 in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York. Julia Stimson THORNE was born in 1945.
2) Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira HEINZ on 26 May 1995 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira was born on 5 Oct 1938 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique.
Second Generation:
2. Richard John KERRY1 was born on 28 Jul 1915 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Jul 2000 in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, MA. Richard John KERRY and Rosemary Isabel FORBES were married on 8 Feb 1941 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.
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Rosemary Isabel FORBES was born on 27 Oct 1913 in Paris, France. She died on 14 Nov 2002 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex County, MA.
Third Generation:
4. Frederick A. (born as Fritz Kohn) KERRY1 was born on 10 May 1873 in Bennisch, Austria (now Horni Benešov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). He died on 23 Nov 1921 in Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was buried on 25 Nov 1921 in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA.Sponsored Links
5. Ida LÖWE1 was born on 22 Feb 1877 in Budapest, Hungary. She died on 19 Jan 1960 in Sarasota, Sarasota County, FL. She was buried in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA.
6. James Grant FORBES was born on 22 Oct 1879 in Shanghai, China. He died on 24 Apr 1955 in Paris, France. James Grant FORBES and Margaret Tyndal WINTHROP were married on 28 Nov 1906 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
7. Margaret Tyndal WINTHROP was born on 23 Feb 1880 in Massachusetts. She died on 7 Jul 1970 in St Briac Sur Mer, Ille et Vilaine, France.
Fourth Generation:
8. Benedikt KOHN was born about 1824 in Austria. He died on 4 Jul 1876 in Bennisch (now Horni Benesov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). Benedikt KOHN and Mathilde FRÄNKEL were married before 1869.
9. Mathilde FRÄNKEL was born on 14 Sep 1845 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland). She died on 24 May 1935 in Vienna, Austria.
10. Siegfried LÖWE was born on 12 Sep 1834 in Märisch-Aussee (now Úsov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). He died on 31 Mar 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Siegfried LÖWE and Josefa LÖW were married on 20 Mar 1870 in Brünn Synagogue, Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
11. Josefa LÖW was born on 31 Oct 1845 in Boskowitz, Moravia (now Boskovice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). She died on 17 Nov 1897 in Vienna, Austria.
12. Francis Blackwell FORBES2,3 was born on 11 Aug 1839. He died on 2 May 1908 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Francis Blackwell FORBES and Isabel CLARK were married on 8 May 1867 in New York, New York.
13. Isabel CLARK2,4,5 was born in Jul 1846 in New York.2 She died on 1 Sep 1931 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
14. Robert Charles WINTHROP Jr was born on 7 Dec 1834 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 5 Jun 1905 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Robert Charles WINTHROP Jr and Elizabeth MASON were married on 1 Jun 1869.
15. Elizabeth MASON6 was born on 1 Oct 1844. She died after Apr 1910.7
Fifth Generation: 18. Jacob FRÄNKEL was born on 13 May 1809 in Zülz, Upper Silesia (now Biala, Opole province, Poland). Jacob FRÄNKEL and Johanna FISCHER were married.
19. Johanna FISCHER was born on 13 Aug 1816 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland). She died on 1 Feb 1848 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland).
20. Leopold LÖWE was born date unknown. Leopold LÖWE and Katharina STERN were married.
21. Katharina STERN was born about 1799. She died on 3 Sep 1886 in Brünn, Moravia, (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
22. Benjamin LÖW was born about 1797. He died on 26 Jul 1876 in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). Benjamin LÖW and Betty SPITZER were married on 14 Jul 1840 in Boskowitz, Moravia (now Boskovice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
23. Betty SPITZER was born in Sep 1817 in Straßnitz (now Stráznice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). She died on 19 Jan 1898 in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
24. Rev. John Murray FORBES3 was born on 5 May 1807 in New York. He died on 11 Oct 1885 in Elizabeth, Union County, NJ. Rev. John Murray FORBES and Anne HOWELL were married on 26 Dec 1838.
25. Anne HOWELL died on 21 Jul 1849.
26. Stephen CLARK was born about 1775. He died on 18 Sep 1828 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Stephen CLARK and Roxanna PHELPS were married.
27. Roxanna PHELPS was born about 1764 in Windsor, Connecticut. She died on 19 Jan 1837 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Irish Catholic or Czech Jew?
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John Kerry's Jewish Roots
Fooled you! And you, and you, and you.
Even the best friends of Senator John Forbes Kerry, a practicing Catholic from Massachusetts (the state which contains America’s largest Irish Catholic population), thought of him as an American Irish Catholic through and through.
The discovery of Kerry’s European Jewish roots has surprised many people, including the senator himself.
Benedikt Kohn (Great-Grandfather)
Benedikt Kohn, the great-grandfather of Senator John Kerry, was born about 1824 in southern Moravia. Benedikt was successful as a master brewer of beer.
In 1868, after the death of his first wife, he moved to Bennisch (today called Horni Benesov) and married Mathilde Frankel Kohn. Benedikt and Mathilde Kohn were two of the only 27 Jews living in Bennisch, which is listed as having a total population of 4,200, in 1880.
Soon after Benedikt died in 1876, Mathilde moved to Vienna with her children Ida (7), Friedrich "Fritz" (3) and Otto (newborn).
Fritz Kohn/Fred Kerry (Grandfather)
Fritz and Otto excelled in their studies in Vienna. However, like other Jews, they suffered greatly from the anti-Semitism that prevailed in Europe at this time. As a result, both Kohn brothers abandoned their Jewish heritage and converted to Roman Catholicism.
In addition, in 1897, Otto decided to shed the Jewish-sounding name of Kohn. He chose a new name by dropping a pencil on a map. The pencil landed on Ireland's County Kerry. In 1901, Fritz followed his brother’s example and officially changed his name to Frederick Kerry.
Fred, who worked as an accountant at his uncle's shoe factory, married Ida Loewe, a Jewish musician from Budapest. Ida was a descendant of Sinai Loew, a brother of Rabbi Judah Loew, the famous Kabbalist, philosopher and Talmudist known as the "Maharal of Prague" who some say invented the character of the Golem. Two of Ida's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Fred, Ida and their first son Erich were all baptized as Catholics. And in 1905, the young family immigrated to America. After entering through Ellis Island, the family first lived in Chicago and then settled in Boston. Fred and Ida had two more children in America, Mildred (1910) and Richard (1915).
Fred and Ida and their three children lived in Brookline, where Fred became a prominent man in the shoe business and regularly attended Sunday Catholic church services. Fred did not tell and no one would have guessed that the family had Jewish roots.
In 1921, Fred Kerry, at age 48, entered a Boston hotel and shot himself in the head. Some say the suicide was due to financial stress or depression. Perhaps the transition from Czech Jew to American Catholic was too great and unsupported a spiritual, psychological and social change.
Richard Kerry (Father)
Richard was six years old when his father committed suicide. It has been said that he dealt with the tragedy by ignoring it. Richard attended Phillips Academy, Yale University and Harvard Law School. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Kerry worked in the U.S. Department of State and later the Foreign Service.
He married Rosemary Forbes, the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts. The Forbes family amassed a huge fortune in China trade.
Richard and Rosemary had four children: Margery (1941), John (1943), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950). John, a Massachusetts Senator, is the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President. Cameron, who married a Jewish woman and converted to Judaism in 1983, is a prominent Boston lawyer.
John Forbes Kerry
In 1997 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright learned three of her four grandparents were Jewish. Then Wesley Clark announced that his father was Jewish. And now a researcher has discovered that John Kerry is really John Kohn.
So what if John Kerry has Jewish roots? If the discovery had been made in Europe in the 1940’s, Kerry would have been sent to a Nazi concentration camp. If the discovery had been made in America in the 1950’s, Kerry’s political career would have been negatively affected. Today, however, the discovery of Kerry’s Jewish roots seems inconsequential and unlikely to affect the 2004 presidential race.
The story of Kerry’s Jewish past is of interest because it reflects the story of many European Jews who shed their Jewish heritage en route to America at the turn of the century. The story makes one wonder how many Americans today have Jewish roots of which they are unaware.
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1. John Forbes KERRY was born on 11 Dec 1943 in Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Aurora, CO. John Forbes KERRY married:
1) Julia Stimson THORNE on 23 May 1970 in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York. Julia Stimson THORNE was born in 1945.
2) Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira HEINZ on 26 May 1995 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira was born on 5 Oct 1938 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique.
Second Generation:
2. Richard John KERRY1 was born on 28 Jul 1915 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Jul 2000 in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, MA. Richard John KERRY and Rosemary Isabel FORBES were married on 8 Feb 1941 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.
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Rosemary Isabel FORBES was born on 27 Oct 1913 in Paris, France. She died on 14 Nov 2002 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex County, MA.
Third Generation:
4. Frederick A. (born as Fritz Kohn) KERRY1 was born on 10 May 1873 in Bennisch, Austria (now Horni Benešov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). He died on 23 Nov 1921 in Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was buried on 25 Nov 1921 in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA.Sponsored Links
5. Ida LÖWE1 was born on 22 Feb 1877 in Budapest, Hungary. She died on 19 Jan 1960 in Sarasota, Sarasota County, FL. She was buried in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA.
6. James Grant FORBES was born on 22 Oct 1879 in Shanghai, China. He died on 24 Apr 1955 in Paris, France. James Grant FORBES and Margaret Tyndal WINTHROP were married on 28 Nov 1906 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
7. Margaret Tyndal WINTHROP was born on 23 Feb 1880 in Massachusetts. She died on 7 Jul 1970 in St Briac Sur Mer, Ille et Vilaine, France.
Fourth Generation:
8. Benedikt KOHN was born about 1824 in Austria. He died on 4 Jul 1876 in Bennisch (now Horni Benesov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). Benedikt KOHN and Mathilde FRÄNKEL were married before 1869.
9. Mathilde FRÄNKEL was born on 14 Sep 1845 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland). She died on 24 May 1935 in Vienna, Austria.
10. Siegfried LÖWE was born on 12 Sep 1834 in Märisch-Aussee (now Úsov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic). He died on 31 Mar 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Siegfried LÖWE and Josefa LÖW were married on 20 Mar 1870 in Brünn Synagogue, Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
11. Josefa LÖW was born on 31 Oct 1845 in Boskowitz, Moravia (now Boskovice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). She died on 17 Nov 1897 in Vienna, Austria.
12. Francis Blackwell FORBES2,3 was born on 11 Aug 1839. He died on 2 May 1908 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Francis Blackwell FORBES and Isabel CLARK were married on 8 May 1867 in New York, New York.
13. Isabel CLARK2,4,5 was born in Jul 1846 in New York.2 She died on 1 Sep 1931 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
14. Robert Charles WINTHROP Jr was born on 7 Dec 1834 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 5 Jun 1905 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Robert Charles WINTHROP Jr and Elizabeth MASON were married on 1 Jun 1869.
15. Elizabeth MASON6 was born on 1 Oct 1844. She died after Apr 1910.7
Fifth Generation: 18. Jacob FRÄNKEL was born on 13 May 1809 in Zülz, Upper Silesia (now Biala, Opole province, Poland). Jacob FRÄNKEL and Johanna FISCHER were married.
19. Johanna FISCHER was born on 13 Aug 1816 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland). She died on 1 Feb 1848 in Oberglogau, Prussia (now Glogówek, Poland).
20. Leopold LÖWE was born date unknown. Leopold LÖWE and Katharina STERN were married.
21. Katharina STERN was born about 1799. She died on 3 Sep 1886 in Brünn, Moravia, (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
22. Benjamin LÖW was born about 1797. He died on 26 Jul 1876 in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). Benjamin LÖW and Betty SPITZER were married on 14 Jul 1840 in Boskowitz, Moravia (now Boskovice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
23. Betty SPITZER was born in Sep 1817 in Straßnitz (now Stráznice, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic). She died on 19 Jan 1898 in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Jihomoravsky province, Czech Republic).
24. Rev. John Murray FORBES3 was born on 5 May 1807 in New York. He died on 11 Oct 1885 in Elizabeth, Union County, NJ. Rev. John Murray FORBES and Anne HOWELL were married on 26 Dec 1838.
25. Anne HOWELL died on 21 Jul 1849.
26. Stephen CLARK was born about 1775. He died on 18 Sep 1828 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Stephen CLARK and Roxanna PHELPS were married.
27. Roxanna PHELPS was born about 1764 in Windsor, Connecticut. She died on 19 Jan 1837 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Irish Catholic or Czech Jew?
From Lisa Katz,
Your Guide to Judaism.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!
John Kerry's Jewish Roots
Fooled you! And you, and you, and you.
Even the best friends of Senator John Forbes Kerry, a practicing Catholic from Massachusetts (the state which contains America’s largest Irish Catholic population), thought of him as an American Irish Catholic through and through.
The discovery of Kerry’s European Jewish roots has surprised many people, including the senator himself.
Benedikt Kohn (Great-Grandfather)
Benedikt Kohn, the great-grandfather of Senator John Kerry, was born about 1824 in southern Moravia. Benedikt was successful as a master brewer of beer.
In 1868, after the death of his first wife, he moved to Bennisch (today called Horni Benesov) and married Mathilde Frankel Kohn. Benedikt and Mathilde Kohn were two of the only 27 Jews living in Bennisch, which is listed as having a total population of 4,200, in 1880.
Soon after Benedikt died in 1876, Mathilde moved to Vienna with her children Ida (7), Friedrich "Fritz" (3) and Otto (newborn).
Fritz Kohn/Fred Kerry (Grandfather)
Fritz and Otto excelled in their studies in Vienna. However, like other Jews, they suffered greatly from the anti-Semitism that prevailed in Europe at this time. As a result, both Kohn brothers abandoned their Jewish heritage and converted to Roman Catholicism.
In addition, in 1897, Otto decided to shed the Jewish-sounding name of Kohn. He chose a new name by dropping a pencil on a map. The pencil landed on Ireland's County Kerry. In 1901, Fritz followed his brother’s example and officially changed his name to Frederick Kerry.
Fred, who worked as an accountant at his uncle's shoe factory, married Ida Loewe, a Jewish musician from Budapest. Ida was a descendant of Sinai Loew, a brother of Rabbi Judah Loew, the famous Kabbalist, philosopher and Talmudist known as the "Maharal of Prague" who some say invented the character of the Golem. Two of Ida's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Fred, Ida and their first son Erich were all baptized as Catholics. And in 1905, the young family immigrated to America. After entering through Ellis Island, the family first lived in Chicago and then settled in Boston. Fred and Ida had two more children in America, Mildred (1910) and Richard (1915).
Fred and Ida and their three children lived in Brookline, where Fred became a prominent man in the shoe business and regularly attended Sunday Catholic church services. Fred did not tell and no one would have guessed that the family had Jewish roots.
In 1921, Fred Kerry, at age 48, entered a Boston hotel and shot himself in the head. Some say the suicide was due to financial stress or depression. Perhaps the transition from Czech Jew to American Catholic was too great and unsupported a spiritual, psychological and social change.
Richard Kerry (Father)
Richard was six years old when his father committed suicide. It has been said that he dealt with the tragedy by ignoring it. Richard attended Phillips Academy, Yale University and Harvard Law School. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Kerry worked in the U.S. Department of State and later the Foreign Service.
He married Rosemary Forbes, the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts. The Forbes family amassed a huge fortune in China trade.
Richard and Rosemary had four children: Margery (1941), John (1943), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950). John, a Massachusetts Senator, is the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President. Cameron, who married a Jewish woman and converted to Judaism in 1983, is a prominent Boston lawyer.
John Forbes Kerry
In 1997 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright learned three of her four grandparents were Jewish. Then Wesley Clark announced that his father was Jewish. And now a researcher has discovered that John Kerry is really John Kohn.
So what if John Kerry has Jewish roots? If the discovery had been made in Europe in the 1940’s, Kerry would have been sent to a Nazi concentration camp. If the discovery had been made in America in the 1950’s, Kerry’s political career would have been negatively affected. Today, however, the discovery of Kerry’s Jewish roots seems inconsequential and unlikely to affect the 2004 presidential race.
The story of Kerry’s Jewish past is of interest because it reflects the story of many European Jews who shed their Jewish heritage en route to America at the turn of the century. The story makes one wonder how many Americans today have Jewish roots of which they are unaware.
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