Stern & Loebl Families Database
A fully searchable database containing the Jewish ancestors of the Stern and Lobl/Loebl families - and their many descendant lines as researched by Gerald Stern.
Ernst Ernest SIMSON
1891 - 1988 (97 years)-
Name Ernst Ernest SIMSON Birth 23 May 1891 Dusseldorf, Germany 
Gender Male Death 30 Sep 1988 Geneva, Switzerland Person ID I122 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
Father Salomon Hermann SIMSON, b. 19 Dec 1855, Mettmann, Germany d. 20 Feb 1949, Bern (Bleichenberg), Switzerland (Buried at Bern Wankdorf cemetery) (Age 93 years) Relationship natural Mother Bertha Brigitta Herta SIMON, b. 29 Aug 1858, Gensingen, Germany d. 17 Mar 1948, Bern (Bleichenberg), Switzerland (Buried at Bern Wankdorf cemetery) (Age 89 years) Relationship natural Marriage 5 Jul 1881 Bingen, Germany Family ID F87 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elisabeth Lisy FISCHER, b. 22 Aug 1900, Zurich, Switzerland d. 6 Jun 1999, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Age 98 years) Marriage 23 May 1923 Charlottenburg, Germany (Religious Chuppah 10 July 1923 in Charlottenburg, Berlin) Children 1. Gabrielle Gaby SIMSON, b. 19 Jul 1924, Amsterdam, Netherlands d. 20 Feb 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Buried at Hazelrigg Cemetery Grave No 294, Row 124) (Age 87 years) [natural]Family ID F6 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
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Notes - Ernest Simson appears to have three different Hebrew names. Neither he nor his wife Elisabeth (Lisy) nee Fischer were married to anyone else and so it seems that this may have arisen as he was not an observant Jew and that he simply could not recall his Hebrew name due to infrequent use. On each occasion when a Hebrew name was required (probably as shown below), the Rabbi most probably reconsidered a likely name for him.
Ernest Simson's Hebrew names [Mordechai, Eliahu or Elisha]:
1) The Wimple (cloth binding made to swaddle a baby boy at his brit milah or circumcision and often used 13 years later at the bar mitzvah to bind the sefer torah scroll) dated 15th Iyyar 5651 or 23rd May 1891 which was beautifully hand painted for him at birth records his Hebrew name name clearly as Mordechai ben Shlomo.
(2) His Ketubah (religious marriage contract with his bride Elisabeth Fischer) dated 26th Tamuz 5683 or 10th July 1923 shows his Hebrew name as Eliahu ben Shlomo.
(3) The Ketubah dated 26th Adar 5712 or 23rd March 1952 of his only daughter (Gabrielle Simson's) marriage (to Alfred stern) shows his Hebrew name as Elisha.
Was stateless for many years living in Switzerland. Received formal Citizenship of Geneva on 3 Nov 1961.
Buried at Veyrier, Jewish cemetery for Geneva - plot No E090.
- Ernest Simson appears to have three different Hebrew names. Neither he nor his wife Elisabeth (Lisy) nee Fischer were married to anyone else and so it seems that this may have arisen as he was not an observant Jew and that he simply could not recall his Hebrew name due to infrequent use. On each occasion when a Hebrew name was required (probably as shown below), the Rabbi most probably reconsidered a likely name for him.