Isaac David Sealtiel, G2a3b1a

The House of Shealtiel can be traced back over 1000 years. The Shealtiel Haggadah (traditional Jewish literature detailing the Exodus) is in the British Museum.

From: vol ii no iii SHEALTIEL GAZETTE Winter 1996 page nine

http://www.shealtiel.com/shealtiel/gazette/gazette.asp

Isaac Sealtiel was born in 1797. He was the second oldest son of David Sealtiel and Gracia Levy Montezinos. On the 1st of September 1819 Isaac married Ribca Montezinos in the Esnoga of Amsterdam when he was 22 years old. Ribca was one year younger. Like many members of the Montezinos family, Isaac and Ribca did not bother to make a civil registration of their marriage. After fifteen months of marriage, Ribca gave birth to a baby girl which was named Rachel Gracia after her own mother and the mother of Isaac.

Their oldest son was named after Isaac’s father David, their second son after Ribca’s father Isaac. The first David died shortly after his birth. When their next son David was born in 1822, Isaac was either ill or absent from Amsterdam, as he did not make the registration of David’s birth.

Ribca gave birth to a child every two years, and twice she gave birth to twins. Rachel Gracia, Hanna, David, Raphael, Elias, Sara, Esther and Salomon survived. David, Isaac, Benjamin and Joseph died as infants. Ribca had her last child when she was forty-two years old, when she gave birth to a stillborn son.

The family was poor, and all their deceased children were buried at the expense of the Portuguese Jewish Community. After their marriage, Isaac and Ribca had lived in the Houtstraat at Marken, but in 1830 the family moved to live in Kerkstraat 16. Isaac was a hawker and had to work many hours each day, walking from one street to another crying out his wares. In 1832 Isaac seems to have earned enough to open his own store, because when his daughter Sara was born, he stated that his profession was shopkeeper.

Four years later, at the birth of the twins Joseph and Salomon, Isaac resumed his old trade as a hawker. The family moved to Kerkstraat no. 111. In 1835, Isaac had his youngest daughter Ester vaccinated in the Mesib Nefes, the hospital for the poor Sephardic Jews. Ester was one of the first Jewish children in Amsterdam to be vaccinated against smallpox, and a certificate states that the vaccination was successful.

After 1840 Isaac was unable to work. He was therefore not able to support his elderly mother Gracia financially. In March 1840 Gracia was accepted at the old folks home at the Mesib Nefes, where she stayed until she died in January 1842. Isaac’s health was poor. He only survived his mother by three months. He died in April 1842 at the age of forty-five, leaving Ribca with the care of their eight children aged between five and twenty-one.

Isaac did not live long enough to see any of his children married. His oldest son David was twenty years old at this time. David would have wanted to support his mother financially, but he was learning how to become a skilled pastry-cook, so the help that he could give must have been limited. To feed her many children, Ribca had to go to the Poor Relief Fund of the Sephardic Community several times, each time borrowing the sum of seven Dutch guilders.

Bruidegom: Isaac Saeltiel Geslacht: Man Geboorteplaats: Amsterdam Leeftijd: 21 Beroep: Koopman Vader van de bruidegom: David Saeltiel Geslacht: Man Beroep: kerkbediende Moeder van de bruidegom: Gracia Isaac Levy Montezinos Geslacht: Vrouw Bruid: Ribca Montezinos Geslacht: Vrouw Geboorteplaats: Amsterdam Leeftijd: 20 Vader van de bruid: David Raphael Montezinos Geslacht: Man Moeder van de bruid: Rachel Rozette Geslacht: Vrouw Gebeurtenis: Huwelijk Datum: woensdag 2 december 1818 Gebeurtenisplaats: Amsterdam

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Port. Isr. Begraafplaats "Beth Haim" 01 Nov 1842

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Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; @R1@ Database online.