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| Birthplace: | Bučovice, near Brno, South Moravia |
| Death: | Died |
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Salomon's birth appears in Czech Jewish Registers released July 2012; he was born January 19, 1795. Image #10 of 82 in Bučovice Births 1784-1848, http://www.badatelna.cz/fond/1073
In his birth record and those of siblings, his mother's name is Böhm.
Marie-Theres Arnbom's book Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl und Strakosch: Fünf Familienporträts aus Wien vor 1938 (Böhlau Verlag, Wien, 2002) lists the children of Salomon Strakosch with 1st wife [Joh]Anna [geboren Strakosch; she was his cousin] and with 2nd wife Rosalia geboren Wolf.
The children with Salomon's 1st wife [Jo]Anna geb. Strakosch, per a family tree appearing in Arnbom, are: Jonas, Pauline, Moritz, Isidor, Siegmund, Bernard, Eduard [the 6 men were partners in the eventual Gebrüder Strakosch firm]. Arnbom lists the following with the 2nd wife Rosalia Wolf: Simon, David/Dominik, Nathan, Matthias [Max?] Jakob, Julius, Leopold and Henriette.
Czech Jewish Registers shows more children born to Salomon and his wives than Arnbom listed. The others (daughters) are not yet on GENI.
In JewishGen.org Burials: Moravia
Salomon Strakosch was in textiles. His woolen mill, "HH. Salomon Strakosch's Söhne, für Schaffwollwaren," appears in a list of "Family firms / Brünn" on p. 541 (item #26) of Austria: Archiv für Gesetzgebung und Statistik auf den Gebieten der Gewerbe, des Handels und der Schiffahrt, Volume 15, publ. Verlag der Kaiserl.-Königl. Hof- und Staatsdr., 1863, found at: http://books.google.com/books?id=L41BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Strakosch&f=false
"In Brno three of the first seven modern steam weaving factories were established by Jews, who had previously been supplying weavers with wool. Among the larger firms was . . . those of the Popper brothers and Salomon Strakosch" (Jewish Virtual Library).
Also "Hr. Rudolf Strakosch, zu Butschowitz, für Schaffwollwaren" (#35) and "HH Gebrüder Strakosch, zu Brünn, fur Schaffwollwaren" (#9)
Salomon Strakosch the Elder was the brother of Löbl the Elder and thus the uncle of Salomon Jünger. He was married to ___ Popper(in).
Children in Bučovice Births in the Czech Jewish Registers include