[6.2] Gabriel ESKELES
(b. 1817 Kelsterbach, d. 13 Feb. 1896 Kelsterbach), merchant,
married (3 Dec. 1845 Darmstadt)
[6.5] Hannche LILIENSTERN (b. 1822 Ortenburg,
d. 30 Mar. 1863 Kelsterbach, buried Jewish cemetery of Gross-Gerau).
Purchased house in 1862 from his brother [6.1] Abraham ESKELES.
Gabriel and Hannche had 9 children of whom only 3 survived.
They are the founders of line 3 from whom only
2 members survived the holocaust.
- [5.9] Moses Moritz ESKELES (b. 13 Dec. 1845 Kelsterbach)
m. (10 unknown month 1875 Hanau) [5.28] Babette Betti ROTHSCHILD
(b. 1851 Schluechtern). They are buried in Hofheim (Taunus).
- [4.9] Edmund ESKELES (b. 18 Sep. 1876 Kelsterbach, d. 27 Mar. 1942
deported K. Z. Trutz (Lodz)).
Edmund lived in Richmond, VA (1894-1906) where he had 2 cousins living, nephews of his mother.
He Edmund ESKELES first married (3 June 1909)
[4.12] Babette BLUMENTHAL (b. 3 Sep. 1860 Marktheidenfeld,
d. 4 Jan. 1919 Aschaffenburg). By nature of his marriage and establishing residence
again in Germany, he lost his American citizenship which might have saved his life
in later years.
- [3.11] Robert (Bob) Gabriel ESKELES (b. 17 Apr. 1910 Frankfurt/M.,
d. 15 June 2004 Richmond, Virginia).
Left Germany in December 1938 after 3 week internment in Buchenwald concentration camp.
Drafted into US Army in early 1942.
Robert married (14 Dec. 1942 Richmond, VA)
[3.50] Mildred MEYER (b. 22 July 1910 Richmond VA, d. before
Bob).
Served 4 years in army in France and Germany, discharged in 1946.
Worked in meat packing plant with his 4 brothers-in-law. Retired in 1978
when firm closed down. No children.
- [3.12] Max ESKELES (b. 6 Jan. 1917 Frankfurt/M.,
d. 27 May 1969 Chicago, IL).
Max worked for an export firm which had a subsidiary in Johannesburg which gave him
and 6 other Jewish boys affidavits and money to come to South Africa.
Max served in the army, was wounded, and recuperated in Israel.
In 1952, he moved to Richmond, VA to join his brother and then moved to Chicago where
he married
[3.46] Marcella LEWIN (b. Chicago, IL). Biological father
of Vicki MILLER mother of Matthew ROCKEFELLER
(b. 18 May 1985 Alliance, Ohio) author of book on Irish Clan
Chiefs.
The ROCKEFELLER family comes from the French ROQUEFEUILS, as do the Spanish
ROCAFULS, who were direct descendants of Makhir and Bostanai.
Edmund remarried [4.13] Klara REIS
(b. 2 Sep. 1876 GELNHAUSEN, d. 1942 deported to Litzmanstadt)
- [4.11] Selma ESKLES (b. 7 Nov. 1886, d. 31 Jan. 1887)
- [4.10] Johanna ESKELES (b. 4 Mar. 1879 Kelsterbach,
d. 4 Jan. 1943 deported to Theresienstadt)
m. [4.14] Adolf SCHWARTZ (b. Merenberg, d. late 1920s in Okriftel (Main))
- [3.21] Selma SCHWARTZ (b. Okrifitel, d. probably\
Holocaust in Minsk) m. [3.22] Willi LOEWENBERG
(b. Weilburg/Lahn, d. late 1920's in Weilburg).
Willi LOEWENBERG had a chocolate factory in Weilburg (Lahn).
Son: Wally LOEWENBERG (b. 30 Sep. 1922 Weilberg,
d. probably Holocaust)
- [5.10] Fromet ESKELES (b. 30 Mar. 1848 Kelsterbach,
d. 3 Mar. 1849 Kelsterbach)
- [5.12] Malche Amalie ESKELES
(b. 30 Apr. 1851 Kelsterbach, d. 9 Oct. 1918 Kelsterbach). Not married.
- [5.11] unnamed infant ESKELES (b. and d. 23 March 1850 Kelsterbach)
- [5.13] Dorothea ESKELES (b. 27 June 1854 Kelsterbach)
- [5.14] Leopold ESKELES (b. 14 May 1856 Kelsterbach, d. 14 June 1867 Kelsterbach)
- [5.17] Hannche ESKELES (b. 25 Feb. 1863 Kelsterbach,
d. 21 July 1863 Kelsterbach)
- [5.15] Hermann ESKELES (b. 12 Oct. 1858 Kelsterbach, d. 30 Apr. 1860 Kelsterbach)
- [5.16] Emilie ESKELES
(b. 23 Feb. 1861 Kelsterbach, d. 6 July 1923 Kelsterbach)
m. [5.23] Johann Viktor NIEDZBALLA (b. 1867 Ratibor)
- [4.21] dead born boy (b. and d. 16 Dec. 1900 Kelsterbach)
- [4.20] Joseffa Emma NIEDZBALLA
(b. 1 May 1904 Kelsterbach) emigrated to U.S.A. (24 Oct. 1925).
Numbers in brackets are references to
The ESKELES Genealogy
by Zeev ESHKOLOT.
Daniel E. LOEB, eMail:
loeb17@gmail.com